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Harmful algal blooms
-Harmful algal blooms exist throughout the Great Lakes, but are especially pervasive in the western basin of Lake Erie.
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Feature HomepageInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismRecreational Hunting and FishingScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: Dirty Laundry, Invasive Species, and the Limitations of Knowledge
-Invasive species can spread by hitching a ride on anglers who don’t clean their gear. This is widely known, but research suggests many anglers still don’t clean, even if it protects fish.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchControl for Frog-bit and Water Soldiers
-New strategy for limiting the spread of exotic water plants in Michigan.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsIllinoisInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchNearly $1.2 billion spent at one site to deter invasive carp from Great Lakes; other entry sites still possible
-Nearly $1.2 billion is to be spent at one site to prevent invasive carp from entering the Great Lakes. There are a dozen more places where the carp could get in.
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Watch out! Creepy kudzu coming?
-Kudzo is on the list of plants and animals that pose an immediate or potential threat to Michigan’s economy, environment or human health.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyInside the Michigan lab where scientists raise killer bugs to save trees
-The emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that feeds on ash wood, has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees across North America. The key to saving what’s left may be growing behind paned glass in a quiet Brighton business park.
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Asian CarpAuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipChicagoFeature HomepageGary WilsonGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIllinoisInvasive SpeciesLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeRefreshIllinois, feds grapple with agreement that would advance billion dollar plan to stop invasive carp
-Illinois objects to terms of “complex” partnership agreement required by the Army Corps of Engineers, while Michigan policy expert questions the need.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsMore fallout from Midland dam failures: blood-sucking parasites in rivers
-The Edenville and Sanford dams once blocked invasive lampreys from entering upstream rivers. But the 2020 dam failures provided an opening, and lamprey now threaten native fish. Regulators say they have a plan.
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Freshwater jellyfish
-A group of college students from Eastern Michigan University are studying freshwater jellyfish in Dexter Township, Michigan.
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AdvocacyAsian CarpAuthorsBooks, Authors, Art and MusicChicagoClimate ChangeDetroitFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsGary WilsonHistory and CultureIllinoisInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchGreat Lakes, Chicago River and Asian carp in the spotlight in Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Under a White Sky”
-“Dealing with the impacts of our own actions.”
