Kelly McCabe 07/12/2024 Phosphorus Combating Harmful Algal Blooms Michigan is home to over 11,000 inland lakes, with 300 lakes, ponds, and impoundments (i.e., a waterbody created by a… Read More »
Ric Lawson 10/18/2018 Phosphorus Late Harmful Algae Blooms Hit Shed After nearly six years of relatively clear, algae-free waters, harmful algae blooms (HABs) were recently detected in Ford and Belleville… Read More »
Niklas Krantz 09/18/2018 Invasive Species Starry Stonewort: A Serious Threat to Michigan’s Lakes Starry stonewort. If you are a lakefront property owner somewhere downstream of the St. Lawrence Seaway, you may have heard… Read More »
Paul Steen 02/06/2018 Monitoring Oakland County’s Health Lake Initiative Become a Lake Monitoring Volunteer! HRWC has helped run MiCorps, the State’s volunteer water monitoring quality program, since 2004. Thanks to… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 07/31/2015 Animals News to Us Local osprey are being outfitted with tracking devices so you and researches can monitor their travels, a new online learning… Read More »
Pam Labadie 08/08/2014 Lakes Fresh wisdom available for your waterfront home! Searching for ways to care for your waterfront? Many of us put a lot of work into our homes and… Read More »
Paul Steen 01/23/2014 Events The Inaugural Michigan Inland Lakes Convention Partnering to Protect Michigan’s Inland Lakes May 1-3, 2014, Boyne Mountain The Michigan Inland Lakes Partnership is pleased to announce… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 11/22/2013 Lakes Looking for signs of RiverUp! around the Great Lakes I grew up in Milwaukee, which means that during my childhood I assumed every city smelled of malted barley, yeast,… Read More »
Paul Steen 07/24/2012 Climate change Court-Ordered Lake Levels Add to Low Flow Woes We glimpse the future under a changed climate Weeks of air temperatures above 90 degrees F have lots of people… Read More »
Paul Steen 03/30/2012 Adopt-A-Stream That's a lot of Secchi! Michigan’s Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program enters its 39th field season! One of my jobs at the Huron River Watershed Council… Read More »
Laura Rubin 01/25/2012 Dams Setting Legal Lake Levels Recently, I went to Washtenaw County Circuit Court about a lake level for Portage and Base (aka Baseline) Lakes in… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 12/03/2010 Fishing Michigan Protects Rivers, Lakes with New Fertilizer Legislation We did it! We are celebrating yesterday’s passage of Michigan phosphorus fertilizer legislation that will go a long way toward… Read More »