GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Wisconsin http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2012-05-21T14:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2012-05-21T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/lake-michigan-water-trail-would-improve-shoreline-access-mr5fjdq-152167325.html The trail will eventually run from the Wisconsin-Illinois border north to the tip of the Door County Peninsula and south along the Green Bay shoreline to the city of Green Bay. text/html 2012-05-21T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/waukeshas-quest-for-lake-michigan-water-lagging-e55f6v5-152166985.html Time appears to have run out on Waukesha's landmark effort to obtain Lake Michigan water by a court-imposed deadline of June 2018 to provide residents with radium-safe drinking water. text/html 2012-05-18T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id/66277/group/Community/ The sixth annual Chequamegon Bay Birding & Nature Festival runs through Saturday and is expected to draw birders as well as nature lovers to the breathtaking south shore of Lake Superior. text/html 2012-05-18T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.ashlandcurrent.com/article/12/05/17/brule-hatchery-could-close-others-may-open A study released this week on Wisconsin's 17 fish hatcheries says it will take $155 million to moderenize them. text/html 2012-05-17T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/forest-land-deal-sets-state-record-du5eq5q-151820355.html State officials on Thursday announced plans for the largest land conservation purchase in Wisconsin history - a transaction that protects more than 100 square miles of forest land in four northern counties. text/html 2012-05-17T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.wsaw.com/news/headlines/State_Trying_to_the_Prevent_the_Spread_of_Asian_Carp_151602445.html?ref=445 Asian carp currently sit at the threshold of Lake Michigan and experts say all of the Great Lakes could be at risk. "These Asian carp would eat up everything these other fish are trying to eat and for these lakes, that would be devestating for their ecosystems," said Eric Olson, Director of the UW-Extension Lakes Program. text/html 2012-05-16T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012205160401 Instead of keeping all its options behind closed doors until a single recommendation emerges, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers will present all its top choices for recommendations to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes toward the end of 2013. text/html 2012-05-14T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.glc.org/habitat/email/email-habitatwebinar2012.html To encourage a dialogue among entities engaged in habitat restoration at Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs), the Great Lakes Commission will host two webinars to review the restoration projects recently completed at the Muskegon Lake, Mich., AOC and St. Louis River (Hog Island), Wis., AOC funded through a Great Lakes Restoration Partnership from NOAA. text/html 2012-05-14T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20120514/SHE0101/205140366/Charter-fishing-bookings-hotel-rooms-see-major-growth-prime-tourism-season-arrives?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE Tourism operators say they're expecting one of their strongest summers in several years in Sheboygan County, after seeing a sharp increase in advance bookings for hotel rooms, charter fishing boats and other activities. text/html 2012-05-11T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20120509/FREE/120509888# Unless Congress intervenes or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relents, this season could be the Badger's last. The EPA has given the ship's owners until Dec. 15 to stop dumping coal ash into Lake Michigan.