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Featured Stories

Each month, the GLCCN highlights stories that showcase the creativity and ingenuity of communities across the Great Lakes Basin. Browse through stories below or tell your own.

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Adventures in Collective Water Management

Adventures in Collective Water Management

by Laura Young | May 22, 2017 |

A new group has launched on the GLCCN to provide support to individuals who wish (Read More…)

Students talk marine debris in creative way

Students talk marine debris in creative way

by Laura Young | May 8, 2017 |

Fifth graders from Alpena, MI, developed this

High Schoolers Help Conduct Research on the Great Lakes

High Schoolers Help Conduct Research on the Great Lakes

by Laura Young | January 26, 2017 |

The Inland Seas Education Association (ISEA) is helping students across the Great Lakes participate in (Read More…)

Growing a local network of stormwater management advocates

Growing a local network of stormwater management advocates

by Laura Young | October 26, 2016 |

The Rain Gardens to the Rescue Program, launched in 2011, is helping Detroit residents manage (Read More…)

Making Use of Dredged Silt

Making Use of Dredged Silt

by Laura Young | September 9, 2016 |

A new facility opened this summer to turn dredged silt from Lake Erie into reusable (Read More…)

A "Tapestry" of Collaboration

A “Tapestry” of Collaboration

by Laura Young | August 18, 2016 |

A visitor center near Ashland, WI, is a prime example of what happens when strong (Read More…)

Coming together for Phragmites management

Coming together for Phragmites management

by Laura Young | July 7, 2016 |

Two southern Ontario communities have seen the transformation of dense Phragmites thickets into restored habitat (Read More…)

Community Partnership Program Selects Nine Recipients

Community Partnership Program Selects Nine Recipients

by Laura Young | June 23, 2016 |

The Great Lakes Clean Communities Network, with support from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, has (Read More…)

Floating treatment wetlands: An emerging innovation

Floating treatment wetlands: An emerging innovation

by Laura Young | May 25, 2016 |

Floating treatment wetlands – essentially, floating islands packed full of native plants – are popping (Read More…)

Four Great Lakes Communities Recognized as Resilient Cities

Four Great Lakes Communities Recognized as Resilient Cities

by Laura Young | April 27, 2016 |

Four Great Lakes Communities were recognized for their efforts to improving their resiliency to climate (Read More…)

The Great Lakes: On the Minds of Citizens throughout the Basin

The Great Lakes: On the Minds of Citizens throughout the Basin

by Laura Young | April 20, 2016 |

Two polls released this month have captured just how much citizens around the Great Lakes (Read More…)

Meeting Phosphorus Targets in the Maumee

Meeting Phosphorus Targets in the Maumee

by Laura Young | March 22, 2016 |

The University of Michigan Water Center released a report today that examines various agricultural management (Read More…)

Telling the Story of a Lampricide Treatment

Telling the Story of a Lampricide Treatment

by Laura Young | February 9, 2016 |

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission recently released a short video detailing a lampricide treatment in (Read More…)

Fish Passage Restoration in Frankenmuth, MI

Fish Passage Restoration in Frankenmuth, MI

by Laura Young | February 5, 2016 |

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, recently released a video of a completed (Read More…)

Downtown Milwaukee BID Launches Effort to Attract Development Along Streetcar Route

Downtown Milwaukee BID Launches Effort to Attract Development Along Streetcar Route

by Shayna Petit | January 21, 2016 |

Milwaukee’s Business Improvement District No.21 recently created an online mapping system for parking and available (Read More…)

Stormwater Model Ordinances in the Great Lakes

Stormwater Model Ordinances in the Great Lakes

by Laura Young | January 18, 2016 |

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources recently developed a stormwater model ordinance for municipalities and (Read More…)

Michigan Township Fighting Phragmites

Michigan Township Fighting Phragmites

by Laura Young | December 18, 2015 |

Chesterfield Township, located northeast of Detroit along the banks of the Salt River and Lake (Read More…)

Great Lakes Cities Plan for Climate Change

Great Lakes Cities Plan for Climate Change

by Shayna Petit | December 8, 2015 |

Several cities in the Great Lakes basin have worked with the University of Michigan Climate (Read More…)

Urban Gardens Promote Education, Nutrition and More

Urban Gardens Promote Education, Nutrition and More

by Shayna Petit | December 3, 2015 |

The City of Champaign, Illinois has created two urban garden plots in order to educate (Read More…)

Preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species through ballast water

Preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species through ballast water

by Laura Young | October 28, 2015 |

New technology may help combat aquatic invasive species that reach the Great Lakes through the (Read More…)

Green infrastructure success in Minnesota

Green infrastructure success in Minnesota

by Laura Young | October 19, 2015 |

A recent development in Minnesota highlights the power of green infrastructure. Argenta Hills boasts several (Read More…)

Cooperative board game engages kids about Great Lakes

Cooperative board game engages kids about Great Lakes

by Michael Timm | October 14, 2015 |

Most readers in this network know the story of the mussel invasion well. Most members (Read More…)

Muddy Prospects: A New Industry Surfaces That'll Repurpose River Sediment

Muddy Prospects: A New Industry Surfaces That’ll Repurpose River Sediment

by Jason Piwarski | September 30, 2015 |

Ohio is examining new ways to dispose of sediment that is annually dredged from water (Read More…)

Report Indicates Lower Numbers of Sea Lampreys in the Great Lakes

Report Indicates Lower Numbers of Sea Lampreys in the Great Lakes

by Laura Young | September 24, 2015 |

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission recently reported that, “…invasive sea lampreys have been knocked down (Read More…)

Protecting and preserving Michigan State University's shared water resources

Protecting and preserving Michigan State University’s shared water resources

by Administrator | August 14, 2015 |

Each piece of MSU’s water protection plan is part of a larger initiative to create (Read More…)

Fracking Illustration

Cannon Township Enacts Ordinances to Regulate Ancillary Oil and Gas

by Administrator | February 12, 2015 |

January 23, 2015 By The Rockford Squire This week, Cannon Township enacted three new Ordinance (Read More…)

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