tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80869267270250169002024-02-20T17:05:51.407-08:00Dynamic Great LakesWhat you wanted to know about the Great Lakes.Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.comBlogger497125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-69292786492891316792022-03-18T15:06:00.002-07:002022-03-18T15:06:58.653-07:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.07em;">By</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.07em;"> </span><a class="byline__authorLink" href="http://www.mlive.com/staff/EBingham/posts.html" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(21, 101, 192); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.07em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Emily Bingham | ebingham@mlive.com">Emily Bingham | ebingham@mlive.com</a></p><div class="article__story " style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Benton Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry-content " style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="6636IRMZ4JGTDEGZH3BPF6TV2A" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;">LANSING, MICH. -- The 2022 fishing license season is set to begin in Michigan, and with it will come expanded opportunities for anglers interested in spearfishing.</p><div id="inarticle-1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="6FGMOKAJPVDV5GTG2ARXZAAPGU" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;">Starting April 1, underwater spearfishing in Michigan will expand to include the chance to harvest additional species, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.</p><div id="inarticle-2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="5PAOMDOLIJANZFSGT75BBHQOYM" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition to previous DNR-approved species, acceptable species for underwater spearfishing will now include walleye, northern pike and lake trout in Lake Michigan (specifically in waters south of the southernmost pier at Grand Haven) and Lake Huron (in waters south of the southernmost pier of the Thunder Bay River, extending south to the mouth of the St. Clair River/Fort Gratiot Light).</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background" style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; 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The underwater spearfishing license is complimentary, unless a DNR Sportcard is needed, and will be available only online at <a href="https://www.mdnr-elicense.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(21, 101, 192); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Michigan.gov/DNRLicenses</a>.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background" style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad-observer" id="InContent_Center_4DUF3MALCVBXNNVAXV6GTWSMEA" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="FQGTQETWB5EZDBK55O325RWLK4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;">More details on spearfishing regulations can be found on <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/2022_fishing_guide_Web_748937_7.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(21, 101, 192); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">page 16 of the DNR’s 2022 fishing guide</a>.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background" style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad-observer" id="InContent_Center_FQGTQETWB5EZDBK55O325RWLK4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="GOV5TQ7P7NEMXOLWRABAVIS2RY" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;">All 2022 fishing licenses are valid from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background" style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad-observer" id="InContent_Center_GOV5TQ7P7NEMXOLWRABAVIS2RY" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><div class="middleParagraph" id="inarticle-6" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="UM6YAXU4DRAQ3HCIOTEUSBBQ4I" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 29.9979px; vertical-align: baseline;">More information at the DNR’s <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-350-79119_79146---,00.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(21, 101, 192); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Fishing in Michigan</a> page.</p></div></div>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-39692000145649705962022-03-01T14:50:00.000-08:002022-03-01T14:50:28.053-08:00<p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ann Arbor, Mich. </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">–</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><a href="https://www.glc.org/" mcafee_aps="true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">Great Lakes Commission</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(GLC) today applauded a plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) to expand and accelerate activities to cleanup and restore Great Lakes Areas of Concern. The funding draws from the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><a href="https://www.glc.org/news/infrastructure-111521" mcafee_aps="true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">historic $1 billion investment</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative included in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In addition to its enhanced focus on Areas of Concern, U.S. EPA reiterated its commitment to addressing other key issues such as harmful algal blooms, nutrient reduction, and aquatic invasive species, which are priorities for the GLC.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="yiv7376586648WordSection1"><p class="yiv7376586648MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">“Accelerating the restoration of Great Lakes Areas of Concern is a beneficial move for our region,” said GLC Chair Todd L. Ambs of Wisconsin. “This work protects the environment and human health and is <a href="https://www.glc.org/news/GLRI-report-092518" mcafee_aps="true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">a great economic driver for the region as well</a>.” </p><p class="yiv7376586648MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">“The Great Lakes Commission is grateful to U.S. EPA for their continued partnership on efforts to restore Great Lakes resources,” said Erika Jensen, executive director of the GLC. “We forward to seeing this critical work continue in collaboration with other federal, state, and local partners.”</p><p class="yiv7376586648MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement designated the Great Lakes Areas of Concern as significantly impaired locations in the Great Lakes basin. The plan released by U.S. EPA will lead to the restoration of 28 of the original 31 U.S. sites by 2030, with the remaining three set to be restored shortly thereafter.</p><p class="yiv7376586648MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"> </p><p class="yiv7376586648MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"># # #</span><i><span style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i> </p><p class="yiv7376586648MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.25px;"><i><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15px;">The Great Lakes Commission, led by chair Todd L. Ambs, deputy secretary for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (retired), is a binational government agency established in 1955 to protect the Great Lakes and the economies and ecosystems they support. Its membership includes leaders from the eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes basin. The GLC recommends policies and practices to balance the use, development, and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes and brings the region together to work on issues that no single community, state, province, or nation can tackle alone. Learn more at <a href="http://www.glc.org/" mcafee_aps="true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">www.glc.org</a>.</span></i></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">--</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The 'mich-rap' email group is a service of the Great Lakes Commission. Visit us at www.glc.org.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-33920936907348022702022-02-27T07:41:00.001-08:002022-02-27T07:41:29.446-08:00<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Isle Royale in Lake Superior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Greenstones,
Wolves, Moose, Thimbleberries, and the <st1:place w:st="on">Isle Royale</st1:place>
redfin lake trout<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On
the map, Isle Royale looks like the eye in the wolf’s head shape of Lake
Superior with </span><st1:city style="font-size: 14pt;" w:st="on">Duluth</st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> its snout and the </span><st1:place style="font-size: 14pt;" w:st="on">Keweenaw Peninsula</st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> its mouth.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> It is precious since there are few places
left on this planet that have been preserved like this.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> It is unique; some of the oldest rocks on
this planet form </span><st1:place style="font-size: 14pt;" w:st="on">Isle Royale</st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, its plants and </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">animals and</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> minerals.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> There are copper mining pits on the </span><st1:place style="font-size: 14pt;" w:st="on">Island</st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> where native Americans dug rich veins of copper
long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I think of Isle Royale, I think of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Eden</st1:place></st1:city>, a place away from
cars and the noise of machinery. There is no traffic on <st1:place w:st="on">Isle
Royale</st1:place>; only hiking trails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The sounds of <st1:place w:st="on">Isle Royale</st1:place> are of bugling
moose, the silvery songs of northern songbirds, the lapping of waves on rocks
and the quavering voices of loons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes there is the slap of a beaver’s tail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The resident pack of wolves are elusive and
seldom seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did not hear them at
all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband and I hiked the trails there
and I’ll never forget the thimbleberries higher than our heads along a
trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We picked the large berries like
none other I have ever tasted, copper color, tangy and delicious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> We found greenstones, </span><st1:state style="font-size: 14pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Michigan</st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s semi precious
stone.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> We stayed on </span><st1:place style="font-size: 14pt;" w:st="on">Isle
Royale</st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for a week and every day we took a different hiking
trail.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> We watched a diving duck teaching
her young to dive.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> We saw a fox near its </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">den and</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> had a close encounter with a moose.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
As we hiked, my husband Norm said, “I smell a moose.”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I didn’t believe him, but as we came around
the bend, there it was, bigger than life, standing athwart our trail.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> We kept a respectful distance and it casually
strolled off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We did not fish, but the rocks off of
the island are the place where the <st1:place w:st="on">Isle Royale</st1:place>
redfin lake trout spawn as they have for millennia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an endemic species and its good to
know it is still returning to Isle Royale every year before returning to the
depths of <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Superior</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In my book, <i>The Dynamic Great Lakes</i>,
I have a section devoted to this very special fish, the <st1:place w:st="on">Isle
Royale</st1:place> redfin lake trout.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-40102266708549489252022-01-15T08:14:00.002-08:002022-01-15T08:14:59.181-08:00<p> </p><p> Paiute Shaman</p><p> <span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">His long thin braids have deerskin fringes.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">He wears silver and turquoise talismans.</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Sacred datura, ceremonies, </p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">sweat lodges, let him see</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">several worlds with eyes</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">that penetrate the darkness of caves</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">in canyon walls</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">where many old ones are lain.</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">He knows worlds within worlds</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">from Utah to Viet Nam</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">where village elders tell similar stories.</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">The Paiute shaman knows</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">guiding spirits will emerge</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">in the end when</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">fires and floods ravage</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">this world.</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Then red haired guides</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">will take us by our hands</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">as we walk into time and space</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">and lead us out. </p><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-51766279180778751672022-01-15T06:50:00.000-08:002022-01-15T06:50:04.301-08:00<p>https://chng.it/TkSvgjYNbv click the link</p>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-46544826397268272022021-08-06T08:57:00.003-07:002021-12-21T18:12:15.252-08:00<p> </p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><b>.</b></span></p>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-59858987592874572372021-04-13T11:43:00.000-07:002021-04-13T11:43:08.170-07:00<p>Link to Power Point presentation about the Great Lakes</p><p><br /></p><p> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o5WrtI0j6Dp4e5jREleMmwDmQXvLyaZr/edit#slide=id.p1</p><p><br /></p>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-40175631398170128602021-04-09T10:25:00.000-07:002021-04-09T10:25:04.254-07:00<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Blood
bone skin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of
earth air water fire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
a burning desire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Electric
body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Immortal
soul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
am whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> --Barbara Spring</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-32398986776694410802021-03-21T10:30:00.000-07:002021-03-21T10:30:02.875-07:00<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Free
as an eagle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
would be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
American eagle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Flying
free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But
I am a human<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here
on this Earth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No
wings to fly me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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set me free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All
of my life I have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wanted
to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Free
as an eagle <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Flying
free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-78372686975396855492020-01-25T12:02:00.001-08:002020-01-25T12:03:47.721-08:00Pancake Ice<br />
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Pancake ice forms from sheets of ice that break off and then
are like a broken plate glass window. When these pieces of ice continually
knock together by the rolling action of waves, they become rounded and curled
up at the edges like gigantic pancakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes the pancake ice looks like bumper cars crashing into each
other-- a wild carnival ride.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-1666434126350894522020-01-19T11:08:00.000-08:002020-01-25T12:01:35.627-08:00Lake Michigan Ice<br />
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White capped waves are rolling in slowly, in majesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ice is beginning to build on the sand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon Lake Michigan will wear a white collar
of ice that will keep the sand from washing away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun is shining yet the wind is causing the
temperature to be below freezing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-19020260342187595332020-01-14T17:21:00.000-08:002020-01-14T17:21:33.763-08:00King Salmon<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Under the bone white moon lattices
of king salmon ribs litter the banks of their birth streams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below the murmuring surfaces of westward
running streams, smolts burst from their clear coral eggs stell wearing yolk
sacs on their bulging bellies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the
embryonic fish survive the hungry mouths of predators on their westward trips
to <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Michigan</st1:place>, they will return to their
birth place at maturity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is their
place to be born, to spawn and to die.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The imprint of their birth place
enters into their bodies along a sense organ called the lateral line that
carries an accurate map and compass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is a network of circuitry more intricate than the <st1:place w:st="on">West
Michigan</st1:place> river systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
fish will be able to return with the certainty of the cycling planets and
constellations of stars.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the jade green waters of the inland
sea, <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Michigan</st1:place>, king salmon gorge on
smaller fish and crustaceans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
skins speckled with dark colored spots carry the blue sheen of sky and the
earth tones of forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They feed their
voracious dream of the birth stream until their bodies grow heavy with it.
Their bodies are stuffed with coral eggs or pearly white milt—female and
male.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For both sexes the dream is the
same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It enters the tops of their heads
as the sun streams into their pineal gland and gathers force.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the freedom of the sweetwater sea, they
bide their time, slowly fanning their tails, drifting through layers of warm
and cool water called the thermocline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They drift. In their bodies they carry the wordless undeniable dream: a
rocky stream bottom in the shadows of pines, the traceries of ferns, and
wildflowers.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The dream gathers force as the
harvest moon grows heavy on the horizon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sleek and round from a summer of feeding and their cargo of coral or
pearl, they grow restless and cease their feeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All at once they streak toward the estuary,
linger there for a while, then streak upstream toward their place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been so since the Pleistocene times
when the salmon breathed glacial melt water through their red gills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is still the same water and still the same
urgent force: birth, procreation and death. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they ignore baited hooks, snares
and leap dams following the ghosts of their migratory ancestors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally they reach the place where they
wriggled free of their gelatinous eggs and begin their journeys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The female fans a hollow in the stones with
her tail while the male waits and watches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She releases the clear coral eggs then the male releases his pearly
white milt to fertilize them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The king
salmon have spent it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They die and
their elements enter other life cycles along the stream. Only their clean bones
remain while the new generations gestate on the bottom of the stream.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-32027937467336577482019-06-30T13:26:00.000-07:002019-06-30T13:26:04.234-07:00Salmon Obsessed with Return<br />
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An Obsessive Sense of Place</div>
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Lattices of salmon ribs litter the banks of a stream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On cold autumn nights, frost flowers bloom
reflecting star light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stream
babbles and unintelligible song as it rushes westward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the salmons’ place to be born, tow
spawn; it is their place to disintegrate and die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salmon are anadromous fish, fish evolved to
follow an elegant rhythm of always returning to their birth stream to spawn
after maturing in a saltwater or sweetwater se.</div>
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and female salmon alike, the imprint of place is their obsession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As smolts they burst from their transparent
eggs still wearing a yolk sac on their bulging bellies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like their ancient ancestors who breathed
glacial meltwater through their gills, the newborns streak down stream to the
freedom of the great inland sweetwater seas known as the Great Lakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In jade green waters they feed their
voracious dream until their bodies grow heavy with it—until they resemble
silver purses stuffed with treasure: slick coral beads and pearly white milt.</div>
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Summer sun dazzles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>down through the thermoclines—the layers of warm, cool, cold water—where
it enters through the fishes’ pineal eyes—triangles on top of their
heads—giving them sure knowledge of their place in the larger scheme of
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They bide their time drifting in
schools, fanning their tails in repose, gorging on small fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They dream of their place where clear water
chortles over quartz and granite under shifting shadows of white pine and tamarack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is their place and as their urgent need to
return gather force under a moon that grows heavy on the horizon, a moon the
color of salmon eggs, a moon that must change to bone white, the salmon mill
about in the harbor.</div>
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The fishes’ bellies grow heavy as the harvest moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dream becomes reality as celestial cues,
the sun, the moon, the stars enter each cellule and each dancing atom of their
bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fish return to their stream and nothing
will stop them: they ignore hunger, snares, treble hooks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On their silvery sides their lateral lines
carry everything they need to know; their maps and compasses imbedded in the
circuitry of their bodies…the hereditary wisdom of their species carried in a
network of circuits from pineal to tail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a sure knowledge of the west <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state>
river system linked to the <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place>.</div>
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<br />Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-21470765746156723162019-06-26T12:42:00.002-07:002019-06-26T12:42:33.571-07:00Poems about Water<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-3106512823686088822019-05-11T16:36:00.000-07:002019-05-11T16:36:26.530-07:00Isle Royale in Lake Superior<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On
the map, Isle Royale looks like the eye in the wolf’s head shape of Lake
Superior with <st1:city w:st="on">Duluth</st1:city> its snout and the <st1:place w:st="on">Keweenaw Peninsula</st1:place> its mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is precious since there are few places
left on this planet that have been preserved like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is unique; some of the oldest rocks on
this planet form <st1:place w:st="on">Isle Royale</st1:place>, its plants and
animals<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and minerals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are copper mining pits on the <st1:place w:st="on">Island</st1:place> where native Americans dug rich veins of copper
long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I think of Isle Royale, I think of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Eden</st1:city></st1:place>, a place away from
cars and the noise of machinery. There is no traffic on <st1:place w:st="on">Isle
Royale</st1:place>; only hiking trails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The sounds of <st1:place w:st="on">Isle Royale</st1:place> are of
bugling moose, the silvery songs of northern songbirds, the lapping of waves on
rocks and the quavering voices of loons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes there is the slap of a beaver’s tail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The resident pack of wolves are elusive and
seldom seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did not hear them at
all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and I’ll never forget the thimbleberries<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>higher than our heads along a trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We picked the large berries like none other I have ever tasted, copper
color, tangy and delicious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We found greenstones, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state></st1:place>’s semi precious
stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stayed on <st1:place w:st="on">Isle
Royale</st1:place> for a week and every day we took a different hiking
trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We watched a diving duck teaching
her young to dive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw a fox near its
den, and had a close encounter with a moose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As we hiked, my husband Norm said, “I smell a moose.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t believe him, but as we came around
the bend, there it was, bigger than life, standing athwart our trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We kept a respectful distance and it casually
strolled off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We did not fish, but the rocks off of
the island are the place where the <st1:place w:st="on">Isle Royale</st1:place>
redfin lake trout spawn as they have for millennia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an endemic species and it’s good to
know it is still returning to Isle Royale every year before returning to the
depths of <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Superior</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-81445361115016952502019-05-07T07:39:00.001-07:002019-05-07T07:43:10.562-07:00Lake Levels Rising in the Great Lakes<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Water levels are
surging in the <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place> and likely will set
records this summer, forecasters said Monday — a remarkable turnaround from
earlier this decade that's bringing welcome relief to shippers and marina
owners, but causing flooding and heavy erosion in some areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A six-month bulletin
from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicted Lake Superior and Lake Erie
soon will reach unprecedented high points, as a heavy winter snowpack across
the region's northern section melts and mingles with water gushing into the
lakes from rivers swollen with spring rainfall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Levels have been trending upward at
varying rates since 2013, when <st1:placetype w:st="on">Lakes</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Huron</st1:placename> and <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state>
fell to their lowest points and the other <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place>
were significantly below normal. That was the nadir of a nearly 15-year slump
that stranded pleasure boats, forced cargo vessels to lighten loads, dried up
wetlands and fueled conspiracy theories that water was somehow being siphoned
off to the parched West.</span></div>
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shift," said Keith Kompoltowicz, chief of watershed hydrology with the Corps' district office in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Detroit</st1:place></st1:city>.
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<st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lake Superior</span></st1:place><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">, which holds more
water than the other four combined and sends it in a continuous flow
through its southern outlet, is about 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) above its
long-term average level for this time of year, and nine inches (22.9
centimeters) higher than a year ago. <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Erie</st1:place>
is 26 inches (66 centimeters) over its long-term average.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:state w:st="on"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Michigan</span></st1:state><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">, Huron and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ontario</st1:place></st1:state> aren't expected
to set records but are well above average, Kompoltowicz said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Great Lakes</span></st1:place><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> levels are known to
fluctuate over time. But experts said the prolonged drop-off of the past decade
and the more recent rise likely result at least in part from a warming climate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-25443466016114944572019-04-26T12:49:00.001-07:002019-04-26T12:49:29.159-07:00Living Waters<br />
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma;">The
north woods ring—the waters gather dripping from the tops of pines, running,
running, running over ancient rocks. The veerys trill up and down the
scales, the warblers chime their notes through still bare twigs and the water
runs, it runs down to Lake Superior swirling downstream, plunging over
waterfalls just freed from ice curtains. Curious deer come to drink from
the pool below lifting their heads, standing motionless to sense the air.
Is it bear? Wolf? Lynx?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma;">Sun
dapples down through bare forest trees—sun streams, the ground steams, wet
leaves tilt insisting on light, thrust new spikes. Water flows through
mobile root hairs, roots, stems, vaporizes into air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma;">Wild
geese weave the wind, skid along black marsh water among tangles of cat
tail. Further downstream waves curl onto a rock shore polishing stones to
oval and the small stones roll chinking and chunking. They assume their
flat round shapes over years of grinding, finding their ease in the wave
rhythms, rolling rolling, rolling. White caps bubble foam and the jade
water is a dancing goddess in the middle distance between shore and horizon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma;">Children
arrive to pick up fossils of ancient coral and to find stones to skip on a
quiet day. They chase sea gulls and try to become airborne by leaping and
spreading their arms. Cormorants and sooty terns rise and cleave the
air. The red cheeked kids leap in the early spring breezes, their
knuckles chapped. What do they care?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma;">The
bones of whales and sailors roll in the currents—some finding their way out to
sea, some becoming, becoming, becoming a diatom’s shining, becoming the bones
of an emerald shiner, becoming limestone shale in the loving exchange between
the living and the living. The islands of <st1:place w:st="on">Lake
Superior</st1:place> bear greenstones and jewel like snakes. Sturgeon
and trout spawn leaving pearls and coral in the crevices of rocks. A
moose stands chin deep in and island lake. The islands of <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Superior</st1:place> are quiet, remote and cold, littered
with bones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma;">Curled
underground, water drawn up through squeaky pumps splashes into enamel
buckets—water clear and cold and tasting of iron. The iron flows through
the veins of the moose and in the red cheeked children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma;">Loons
quiver their greetings and as twilight falls, bullfrogs groan their love songs—they
bellow all night long. I lay awake listening to the water lapping the
night and its creatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-86138984171128723362019-04-19T08:44:00.000-07:002019-04-19T08:44:43.083-07:00The Return of Eagles, Ospreys, Peregrine Falcons<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In 1962 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Norm</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Spring</st1:placename></st1:place>
read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silent Spring</i> by Rachel
Carson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wondered how anyone could
read the book and not do something about the harm DDT was causing to the
environment. He was living right across the street from Central Park at the
time and the city of <st1:city w:st="on">Grand Haven</st1:city>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state></st1:place> would spray the
elm trees for Dutch Elm disease with DDT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was told he could move his car, but along with his wife he had two
small children and the house and places where the young children played would
be coated with DDT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem was DDT
did not kill the elm beetle. it soaked into the ground and everyone could see
robins trembling in their death throes in the grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spray washed down the streets and into
the storm drains so DDT entered <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Michigan</st1:place>
where it was caught up in food chains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The fish became highly contaminated with DDT.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fish eating birds such as the American Bald
Eagle were affected since their eggs became thin and cracked as a result of DDT
and did not hatch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Norm went to every
meeting of the <st1:placename w:st="on">Grand</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Haven</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">People came from a
nearby city and asked “How did you do that?” and together they formed the <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state> Pesticides Council that met at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Michigan</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the members were:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Norm</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Spring</st1:placename></st1:place>, chairman, Joan
Wolfe, ornithologists Dr. Ted Black, Dr. George Wallace, Dr. John Kitchel, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charles Schick, Ann Van Lente, , Joseph
Kleiman, Theodore Carbine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to their
work DDT and like pesticides were banned in <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state>
in 1972 and then the ban went nation wide and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> followed.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Today the Eagles,
Ospreys and Peregrine Falcons have returned to the shores of the Great Lakes,
the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> because
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into The Michigan Environmental Hall of Fame in 2014 for his work on behalf of
the environment.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br />Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-32973123099182693782019-04-12T11:01:00.000-07:002019-04-12T11:01:04.345-07:00Why I Wrote The Dynamic Great Lakes<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><br /><b>I mourn the loss of what used to be even before I was born. This was my
motivation for writing The Dynamic Great Lakes. I care about the environment so
much that I had to do something.<br />
When I think of the 500 year old white pines that used to be where I live, I
feel a sadness. White pines were called white gold and used for the masts of
ships, and in West Michigan, these trees rebuilt <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city> after the great fire. <br />
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When I think of the sturgeon that were killed and burned like cord wood because
they fouled fishermen's nets, I want to cry. <br />
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Glacial relics remain in the dunes and wetlands such as the arctic primrose.
The names of flowers are lovely: grass pink, lady's tresses, ramshead
ladyslipper. The fragrances of these flowers are in my imagination. Very few
are really found.<br />
Few are found because dunes and wetlands have been leveled.<br />
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When Jaques Cartier reached the <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place>,
his men had scurvy. The Native Americans taught the French how to get vitamin C
by making arbor vitae tea. The tea was made by pouring hot water over the
leaves of this tree. They learned of a natural pesticide from the aroma of
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Now harmful chemicals are found in the air, water and soil and this is really
something to grieve. This was my motivation for writing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dynamic Great Lakes</i>. I care about the environment so much that
I had to do something. This book shows what some people working on grassroots
committees have been able to do. It is a hopeful book. It is a beginning. Without
basic knowledge about the <st1:place w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place> it is
impossible to make the right decisions about them.</b></div>
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<strong><em>The Dynamic Great Lakes</em> is perfect for Earth Day, Father's Day or any day. It is a green book that shows what people have been able to do through the democratic process to correct mistakes made in the past. </strong><br />
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<strong> There is information needed to make good decisions about the Great Lakes. The reading level is middle school through adult.</strong><br />
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<strong>It's a great book for people who like to fish. It shows what kind of fish may be caught in each of the Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River.</strong><br />
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<strong>Let me know if you would like to order a copy for yourself or a friend. Send a check for $17.00 plus your mailing address to: Barbara Spring, 1416 Lake Ave. Grand Haven, MI </strong><br />
<strong>49417</strong>Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-83643581513382311582018-10-31T07:21:00.001-07:002018-10-31T07:21:45.361-07:00Interview with the author of The Dynamic Great Lakes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What prompted you to write The Dynamic Great Lakes?</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I was inspired by a speech I heard while at a writer’s conference in Aspen, Colorado. N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The House Made of Dawn, gave a speech on the importance of landscape. When I came home, it occurred to me that my landscape is a waterscape–the Great Lakes system. With this thought, I began to work on The Dynamic Great Lakes. The importance of the Great Lakes is not always appreciated. I wanted people to appreciate them.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Who is the intended audience for the book and who might enjoy reading it?</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I wrote The Dynamic Great Lakes with a general audience in mind. I spent a lot of time searching for and up-to-date book about the Great Lakes and I could not find one. I believe my book is important because it shows the Great Lakes and their connecting waters in relation to each other; it shows the lakes in relation to their unique dunes and wetlands and to their biota. The Great Lakes are about 20% of all the fresh surface water on this planet. I wanted to make people aware of how precious this freshwater is and how vulnerable. I want people to feel concerned about how these lakes and their web of life is faring.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Do you think Michiganians generally are knowledgeable about the Great Lakes?</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Someone who has lived by Lake Michigan all of his life read my book and said, “I have been taking these lakes for granted.” I believe that people in Michigan and the other Great Lakes states and provinces need to know more about the Great Lakes so they will be in a better position to make good decisions about them. The Great Lakes will become more and more important as our population grows and the people are asked to vote for candidates who will either understand the issues and care for the lakes with future generations in mind, or those who would exploit them for short term gains.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What are your earliest memories of the Lakes?</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />My earliest memory of the Great Lakes–I must have been about 7–was a trip with my family around Lake Superior’s rocky shore. I still remember how awed I felt when I first viewed the largest of the Great Lakes and felt its icy water. My father woke us all up one morning proudly displaying a string of brook trout he had caught from a tributary stream to Lake Superior. We had them for breakfast. Just delicious.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you were czar(ina) of the Great Lakes, what is the single most important thing you would do for them?</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I would develop energy sources that do not threaten the environment. I would phase out the 37 aging nuclear power plants in the Great Lakes watershed and find a way to store atomic wastes in a place where it has no chance of getting into water. That would be my decree. I would hire the best minds to work on this daunting problem and I would tell them to do it will all haste. </div>
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Barbara Springhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442858408225289344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086926727025016900.post-43423342372098419622018-10-24T06:22:00.000-07:002018-10-24T06:22:47.607-07:00Sink Holes in Lake Huron<div>
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Middle Island sinkhole is open to Lake Huron, creating a gradient of
biological activity. A nine-metre boat is also visible in this aerial
photo for sense of scale. ((Scott Kendall/Bopi Biddanda/Grand Valley <nobr style="font-size: inherit;"><a class="pxInta" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sinkholes-below-lake-huron-hold-strange-ecosystem-researchers-1.801422?fbclid=IwAR1rSTjASEhUZ3llLDachkDzsCvxrz3YtkCxZhGgTQyM-dGM5uyjNu3jmpE#" id="PXLINK_3_0_3">State University</a></nobr>))</span></span>Twenty
metres below the surface of Lake Huron, scientists have discovered
peculiar sinkholes where a bizarre ecosystem at odds with the rest of
the lake flourishes.</div>
The huge lake's freshwater fish shun the dense, salty, oxygen-deprived waters of these sinkholes off northeastern Michigan.<br />
Instead, brilliant purple mats of cyanobacteria — cousins of <nobr style="font-size: inherit;"><a class="pxInta" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sinkholes-below-lake-huron-hold-strange-ecosystem-researchers-1.801422?fbclid=IwAR1rSTjASEhUZ3llLDachkDzsCvxrz3YtkCxZhGgTQyM-dGM5uyjNu3jmpE#" id="PXLINK_2_0_2">microbes</a></nobr> found at the bottom of permanently ice-covered lakes in Antarctica — and pallid, floating, ponytail-like microbes thrive.<br />
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Groundwater
from beneath the lake is dissolving minerals from the ancient seabed
and carrying them into the lake to form these exotic, extreme
environments, says aquatic ecologist Bopaiah Biddanda of Michigan's
Grand Valley State University, a leader of the team studying the
sinkhole ecosystems.<br />
"These are almost primordial Earth
conditions, with high sulphur and low oxygen like in the ancient oceans
that covered the Earth three billion years ago," Biddanda told CBC News.<br />
"It gives us a <nobr style="font-size: inherit;"><a class="pxInta" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sinkholes-below-lake-huron-hold-strange-ecosystem-researchers-1.801422?fbclid=IwAR1rSTjASEhUZ3llLDachkDzsCvxrz3YtkCxZhGgTQyM-dGM5uyjNu3jmpE#" id="PXLINK_1_0_1">window</a></nobr> into the past and who knows what value it will hold."<br />
The
researchers describe this little-known underwater habitat in this
week's issue of Eos, published by the American Geophysical Union.<br />
Although above-ground sinkholes in the area were discovered decades ago, the submerged sinkholes were only recently uncovered.<br />
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2001, researchers with the Connecticut-based Institute for Exploration
stumbled across them during an underwater archeological survey for
shipwrecks in Michigan's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.<br />
Scientists
began to explore these sinkholes a couple of years later, finding some
just 20 metres below the surface and others extending 100 metres down,
where the sun never shines.<br />
But their findings have trickled in over the last few years because of the logistical problems in exploring lakebed sinkholes.<br />
"Finding these little spots in a huge lake — you can't even compare it to looking for a needle in a haystack," said Biddanda.<br />
The
most recent findings show an ecosystem that has more in common with
Antarctic lakes and deep-sea, hydrothermal vents than it does with a
freshwater lake.<br />
"We were amazed to find these brilliant
cyanobacteria mats," said Biddanda. DNA sequencing of the purple mats
show they are closely related to mats found in the ice-covered,
oxygen-poor Antarctic lakes.<br />
Biddanda suspects similar ecosystems
once existed all around the Earth but largely disappeared as
the planet's atmosphere became increasingly oxygen-rich.<br />
The team,
including researchers from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, suspects similar sinkholes exist under the other Great
Lakes because, with the exception of Lake Superior, the lakebeds are all
composed of limestone, with ancient aquifers running beneath.<br />
The researchers will <nobr style="font-size: inherit;"><a class="pxInta" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sinkholes-below-lake-huron-hold-strange-ecosystem-researchers-1.801422?fbclid=IwAR1rSTjASEhUZ3llLDachkDzsCvxrz3YtkCxZhGgTQyM-dGM5uyjNu3jmpE#" id="PXLINK_0_0_0">continue</a></nobr> to
study the sinkholes this summer, keeping a sharp eye out for the
possible discovery of never-before-seen organisms and biochemical
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