Smart lake gardening: Planning your nearshore garden
Extending your lakefront garden into the water opens an exciting new opportunity to enhance your property’s beauty and function.
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden. Photo by Rebecca Finneran, MSU Extension.
Extending your lakefront garden into the water opens an exciting new opportunity to enhance your property’s beauty and function. Elegant bulrush with pondweeds growing below create interest while providing safe shelter for many of the lakes’ fish, birds and other animals. Placing logs that extend from the shoreline edge out into the lake improves habitat further while also providing an attractive feature from both land and water. The water in front of your shoreline does not need to end your gardening; in fact, it might be one of your most important gardens.
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Sacks of rubbish collected in April’s spring clean RUBBISH weighing the equivalent of a blue whale’s tongue has been collected from roadside verges in Craven by council officers since early April. Amongst the three tonnes of rubbish was a bag containing keys, money and ID, which had been lost from the back of a motorbike and which has now been returned to the owner. The annual spring clean of verges along main highways carried out by Craven District Council began on April 6 and is due to run for about two months. Tracy McLuckie, the council’s environmental services manager, said: “Our teams are working hard around the district to ensure Craven looks at its best for residents and visitors.
WBGZ Radio 4/27/2021 |
By Doug Jenkins - WBGZ Radio
When the former power plant along the Berm Highway was brought down earlier this year, it came as a surprise to many in the area. The Big Z received notice of the demo a few days prior and relayed that information to our listeners, but a bill passed out of the Illinois Senate would require a 60-day notification prior to commencing a demolition.
Senate Bill 1920 is sponsored by Senator Rachelle Crowe (D-Glen Carbon).
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The initiative amends the Environmental Protection Act by requiring the owner of a coal power plant to notify both the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and populations within 25 miles of the site at least 60 days before commencing a demolition. The notice must include details on the scheduled date and time of the demolition, potential contaminants emitted by the project, and any preventative measures implemented to control, mitigate, or prevent pollution. The bill has mov
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