On The Brink, The Great Lakes in the 21st Century, Dave Dempsey, Michigan State University Press, 2004
Geology of the Lake Superior Region, Gene LaBerge, Geoscience Press, 1994
The Living Great Lakes, Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas, Jerry Dennis, Thomas Dunne Books, 2003
The Great Lakes Water Wars, Peter Annin, Island Press, 2006
Whose Water is it? The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water Hungry World, McDonald and Jehl, National Geographic Press, 2003
Superior, Under the Shadow of the Gods, Chisholm and Gutxche, Upper Great Lakes Group, 1999.
Cold, Clear, and Deadly, Unraveling a Toxic Legacy, Melvin Visser, Michigan State Press, 2007.
The Great Lakes, The Natural History of a Changing Region, Wayne Grady, Greystone Books, 2007
Superior Science, Sharon Moen, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Seagrant, 2004
The Dynamic Great Lakes, Barbara Spring, Independence Books, 2001
Water the Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, Steven Solomon, HarperCollins, 2010
During the two hour open house and fundraiser ( 3 – 5 PM, February 21, 2010), they will share their dreams and motivations for this expedition with supporters attending the event. Peggy Callahan, Center Director, will share her perspective of the wolf country they will explore, observe, and analyze.
Walking the shoreline of Lake Superior is the equivalent to walking from Miami to Duluth, through three states and one Province. Kate and Mike, both of whom are in their 60’s, aim to stay as close to the shore as possible, sometimes on trails, sometimes on roads, and often on the shoreline itself. From clay to sand to rock, the Lake Superior shoreline surrounds the largest body of freshwater in the world (by area) and contains 1/10th of the surface freshwater in the world.
During the hike, they will conduct research in partnership with a number of college and university partners and present educational programs with the help of their Sag wagon support education coordinator, Amanda Hakala, and the staff of the Great Lakes Aquarium and Audubon Center of the North Woods.
In discussion with the Natural Resource Research Institutue we decided to set up a protocol for photographing as many river mouths as possible. With all the talk about lower Superior to aid Lakes Michigan and Huron or shipping the freshwater to the desert, we have to add to our baseline data and take photos of the streams to see their mouths. If we lose the connection between streams and the lake we have a potential to do devastating damage to spawning and the overall biological system.
This will be an additional aspect of our records and our contribution to future analysis.
By SUSAN SAULNY
Published: January 20, 2010
New York Times
Genetic material from the Asian carp, a voracious invasive specieslong feared to be nearing the Great Lakes, has been identified for the first time at a harbor within Lake Michigan, near the Illinois-Indiana border, ecologists and federal officials said Tuesday….
Government officials were careful to underscore that they had not found any fish -- dead or alive -- despite much effort, and that the Asian carp's DNA could have arrived in Lake Michigan by various means other than the fish's swimming from river basins it has already overtaken farther south.
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January 27, 2010. Great news about the news. January has seen a surge in interest for the trip and there have been articles in Moose Lake, Askov, Sandstone, and Two Harbors newspapers in MN plus an article in Marquette, MI and Sault Ste Marie, Canada. There will be a feature article in the upcoming Duluth Sunday paper and we just interviewed with Kim Ode at Minneapolis Star Tribune. A short article in MinnPost, the state e newspaper can be found at
http://www.minnpost.com/markneuzil/2010/01/22/15122/love_affair_with_lake_superior_leads_to_major_expedition.
We are also pleased that WTIP radio in Grand Marais, MN, and KTCZ - cities97 - in the Twin Cities will have on the air updates before and throughout our travels.
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
