This one a long time have I watched. All it's history many have looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never our mind on what is best for the lake. Hmm? What are we doing?
Lakes Legacy→
/Tony Randgaard, writing for MinnPost:
Control, control, you must learn control! To be Honorable is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness. Be a candle, or the night.”
Acid Rain's Dirty Legacy→
/Brooks Miner, reporting for FiveThirtyEight:
Decrease the burden on lakes affected by past emissions, lower pollution in the present would.
Project: Murky Waters (WisconsinWatch)→
/The Capital Times and Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism collaborated on a four-part series to examine threats to the quality of the Madison area’s spectacular lakes, and ambitious new efforts that seek to improve them.
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Part 2:
Part 3:
Provided here to explain consequences on lake water quality, a lot of information is. Hmmmmmm.
Trends in Water Transparency for Midwest Lakes
/From National Science Foundation Discoveries:
Adam Hinterthuer, writing for University of Wisconsin - Madison:
Remember, science's strength flows from the sample size. But beware. Controls, randomization, replication, and statistical inference. The light side are they. Once you start down this path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Canada's Research Lakes
/NewsBlog at Nature:
Lake Whatcom's Pollution Puzzle→
/Ralph Schwartz, reporting for the Bellingham Herald (WA):
Lake Champlain Cleanup Plan→
/Beth Garbitelli, writing for the Associated Press:
Bring plan here. Question it we will.
Authorities Investigate Pollution in China's Iconic Erhai Lake→
/Gao Shan, reporting for RFA's Mandarin Service (translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie):
Greed transcends economic or political systems. Capitalism and communism both treat the environment as an externality. Ponzi scheme you are in, consume you it will.
MPCA issues early analysis of study on sulfates and wild rice→
/Stephanie Hemphill, reporting for MinnPost:
A Lake Manager’s Notebook: Citizens’ Roles in Managing Lakes→
/Dick Osgood, posted at Conservation Minnesota:
The job of lake protection and restoration is difficult and it requires changing systems.
Tahoe program targets runoff pollution from urban areas→
/Jeff DeLong:
Measure, plan, do.
Fish forced into the ‘foraging arena’ when lakes lose their trees→
/Adam Hinterthuer, writing for University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Interesting study from the Center of Limnology.
Watch the Great Lakes Freeze Over→
/Byran Walsh, reporting for Time:
As we've changed the system, things that were once normal are now seen as abnormal.
Fertilizer Limits Sought Near Lake Erie to Fight Spread of Algae→
/Michael Wines, reporting for the New York Times:
Other States have banned phosphorus lawn fertilizers, and the evidence is that such bans are effective in protecting water quality.
For Great Lakes' Sake→
/Greg Breining, reporting for ENSIA:
A great story on the world's big lakes.
Madison's lakes are 'impaired' by runoff-driven weeds and algae, state says→
/Steven Verburg, reporting for the Wisconsin State Journal:
Don't you have to call a spade a spade?
State Draft Plan Addresses Phosphorus Pollution in Lake Champlain→
/John Herrik, reporting for VTDIGGER.ORG:
Start with a good plan, and find effective levers to change the numerous systems that have been allowed pollution to flow into the lake for so long.