GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Wisconsin http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2009-07-03T14:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.examiner.com/x-15681-Milwaukee-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2009m7d1-New-public-hearings-on-lake-levels-added Those leading a controversial study on low water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron have given in to pressure to add two public hearings in Wisconsin. The study board had scheduled 14 public hearings with only one held along the western shore of Lake Michigan or in the Upper Peninsula. text/html 2009-07-01T08:05:50-04:00 http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/1092 Wisconsin's smaller, inland lakes generally have higher concentrations of mercury than Lake Michigan. While advisories regarding mercury levels in commercial and locally caught fish are useful if followed, the ultimate way to reduce mercury's impact on human health is to cut emissions. text/html 2009-07-01T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.nbc26.com/Global/story.asp?S=10623974 Southeast Wisconsin will receive nearly $5 million in federal funds to remove a dam and a number of fish barriers on the Milwaukee River. The funds will also be used to enhance watershed habitat in the Port Washington area. text/html 2009-07-01T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.glifwc.org/ GLIN's July Site of the Month is the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. GLIFWC provides natural resource management expertise, conservation enforcement, legal and policy analysis, and public information services to its member bands. text/html 2009-06-30T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/49395002.html Fond du Lac awaits news on future of its industrial heart text/html 2009-06-29T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-chippewaanniversa,0,1090266.story The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission formed to preserve Chippewa treaty rights and the natural resources in northern Wisconsin plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary. text/html 2009-06-26T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=10599021 The economic hard times are stretching to the waters of Lake Michigan. Fewer charter captains are taking fewer clients on fishing trips. text/html 2009-06-26T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/49134587.html Bald eagles are nesting at six confirmed locations in southeastern Wisconsin - compared with only two as recently as 2007 - and a steadily increasing number of people are calling state Department of Natural Resources offices to report eagles flying over their communities. text/html 2009-06-24T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/48953196.html The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is considering a hunting and trapping season to control the burgeoning gray wolf population, but officials said a season wouldn't start for at least five years. text/html 2009-06-24T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/48925762.html Nearly 1 billion gallons of untreated sewage and storm water - double the capacity of the deep tunnel system - spilled out of combined sanitary and storm sewers in central Milwaukee and eastern Shorewood into local rivers and Lake Michigan during intense rain Friday and early Saturday.