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Sensors to monitor Clinton River
Part of GLWA’s larger southeast Michigan master plan By: Nick Mordowanec | C&G Newspapers | Published February 6, 2021
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP The Clinton River is one of three southeastern Michigan rivers being studied to help improve water quality and wastewater treatment in the region.
It is part of the Great Lakes Water Authority’s “Regional River Water Quality Monitoring Program,” with local impacts in communities such as Clinton Township and Sterling Heights both of which already have gauges that monitor the height and flow of water but will now be enhanced with new sensors.
GAYLORD — You may be able to add deer hunting to the list of items that the coronavirus changed last year.Final estimates on the 2020 season from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources won t be available until May or June, DNR deer specialist Chad Stewart said. However, the response to the pandemic may have trimmed the number of hunters in the state s annual firearms season last November.Stewart said anecdotal evidence indicates that while overall license sales in the state were up,
MSU researcher working to address emerald ash borer
Emerald Ash Borer
Researchers didn’t see emerald ash borer (EAB) coming when it first appeared in Michigan in 2002, and the spread has been devastating killing tens of millions of ash trees in Michigan. The troublesome beetle most likely entered the U.S. through wood crating and/or pallets used to ship cargo from Asia and has led to a full-blown plant health emergency.
Deborah McCullough, MSU forest entomology professor, has worked with other researchers, technicians and students on EAB population dynamics, spread, impacts and control.
McCullough
“We collected tree rings across a 5,800 square mile area in southeast Michigan and found that emerald ash borer had arrived in the Detroit metro area near Westland and Garden City by at least the early 1990s, but it wasn’t discovered until 2002,” she said. “EAB is now in 35 states, five Canadian provinces and is considered the most destructive and costly forest insect t
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Originally published on February 5, 2021 8:32 am
Hope is waning for those who hoped to stick an ice shanty on Little Traverse Bay this winter.
The same goes for nearby Torch and Elk lakes, two large inland waters adjacent to the bay. At the height of Michigan winter, all three are so devoid of ice, fishing guide Jim Chamberlin said, “you could launch a boat out there.”
On the kettle lakes of Southeast Michigan, thin ice has law enforcement officials responding to an uptick in on-water emergencies and urging residents to think twice before venturing out to skate, fish or snowmobile.