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November 20, 2009
Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- albany, ballastwater, coastguard, doorcounty, EPA, greatlakes, lakemichigan, newyork, newyorkattorneygeneral, shipping, vessels, VHS, viralhemorrhagicsepticemia, wisconsin, wisconsin DNR
Door County, Wisconsin is famous for their fish boils. We are talking about massive kettles of Lake Michigan white fish with potatoes, onions and the perfect spices boiling in giant bonfires on the beach. Yum, it's a great tradition that...
November 12, 2009
Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- armycorps, asiancarp, chicago, chicagodiversion, chicagoriver, greatlakes, invasivespecies, lakemichigan
Poison has been used to repel invading armies throughout history. And it's just about to happen again outside Chicago. In this case, the invading army doesn't come in the form of armed troops... actually, they are fish. But their threat...
October 29, 2009
Posted by Thom Cmar in Reviving the World's Oceans
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- ballastwater, cleveland, greatlakes, invasivespecies, obama, oceans
I'm off to Cleveland this morning to testify at the Great Lakes regional meeting of the National Ocean Policy Task Force. As a native Ohioan, I am excited to return to my home state and take this important opportunity to...