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Great Lakes Daily News: 22 September 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Erie's shoreline gets byway boost
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Lake Erie tourism will get a boost from Washington today when the Federal
Highway Administration designates the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail as one of
the nation's 125 "scenic byways." Source: The Plain Dealer (9/22)


Utilities want bans on drilling eliminated
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Ohio's major natural gas utilities yesterday asked Ohio lawmakers to urge
Congress to lift their bans on drilling under the Great Lakes, in Alaska
wildlife preserves, and along the coastlines. Source: The Toledo Blade (9/22)


Another step is taken to stop Canada's trash
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Canadian trash could not be dumped in Michigan landfills once the federal
government gives the state authority to ban foreign trash under legislation
approved Wednesday by the state House. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/22)


Disease takes toll on N.W. Indiana waterbirds
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In what may be the only outbreak of avian botulism this summer in the Great
Lakes, 34 waterbirds have died on George Lake. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (9/22)


States want to reduce stocked fish in Lake Michigan
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Fisheries officials from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin will meet
Saturday to discuss plans for reduced salmon stocking in Lake Michigan, in an
effort to avoid the kind of population crash that was experienced in Lake
Huron. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/22)


Granholm, Mackinac Bridge Authority resolve dispute
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Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday returned to the Mackinac Bridge
Authority a number of responsibilities that had been shifted to the Michigan
Department of Transportation. Source: The Sault Ste. Marie Evening News (9/21)


Beach again lures national publicity
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Sandwiched between the Julian Alps in Slovenia and the small West African
republic of Benin, an item on Muskegon's Pere Marquette Beach appears in the
October issue of National Geographic Traveler as a "Beach Find." Source:
Muskegon Chronicle (9/21)


House votes to hand over the Mackinaw to Cheboygan
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The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously voted last week to approve the
conveyance of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw to the Cheboygan city and
county. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (9/21)


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