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Cleanups planned for Coastweeks
The News-Messenger (9/2)
Ohio's 2008 Coastweeks observance will again focus on the preservation and protection of Lake Erie and its watershed through a variety of cleanup events along the shoreline and throughout its watershed.
Maritime Academy may hike maritime tuition up to 57%
Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/27)
Some of next year's students at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy could face tuition rate hikes of 50 percent or more.
Students build wind turbines
WTVG-TV Toledo (8/27)
Science students at Clay high school will soon have a way to measure the wind and how much power it can produce. This grant-funded project will provide data on how well turbines produce power in the changeable wind environment near the lake.
What's going on in your neighborhood this month? Meet other people and learn together at recreational and educational events! Our new dynamic calendar is updated daily with current educational events.
6 | Human impacts and the future
Our Great Lakes shorelines are threatened today by human impacts, such as shoreline housing development, tourism, and erosion. We need to ensure that we don't destroy what took nature millions of years to create. In December 2000, TEACH Great Lakes will explore the issue of human impacts on shorelines as well as the causes and problems of erosion. Come back soon to read further!
References
Great Lakes Atlas. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada, 1995.
Living with the Lakes. Great Lakes Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1999.
The Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Great Lakes Ecosystem: Issues and Opportunities. US Environmental Protection Agency and The Nature Conservancy, 1994.
Maynard, Laurie and Doug Wilcox. Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands. State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC), 1996.
BeachWatch, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
National Park Service: Wetlands
Shelton, Napier. Superior Wilderness: Isle Royale National Park. Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, 1997.
Parratt, Smitty and Doug Welker. The Place Names of Isle Royale. Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, 1999.
Graphic: seawall