Wisconsin

Five years after the world’s largest PCB cleanup ended, how’s the Lower Fox River doing?

Fri, 02/21/2025 - 13:10 Great Lakes Commission

Nearly five years after the final scoop of contaminated sediment was taken from the Lower Fox River in Wisconsin, the river is improving, but it’s still not safe for fishing. […]

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Maritime Time: Surviving the Carl D. Bradley

Tue, 02/18/2025 - 05:53 Interlochen Public Radio

The sinking of the Carl D. Bradley is one of the largest on Lake Michigan.

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Iceboats can go 80 mph on Wisconsin’s frozen lakes

Mon, 02/17/2025 - 11:13 Great Lakes Commission

Iceboats, some a century old, are the speedsters and yachts of frozen lakes. Iceboating flourished in Madison, Wisconsin, partly because of the city’s lakes and a culture that embraced wintertime […]

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Evers proposes $145M plan to address PFAS in his next budget for Wisconsin

Fri, 02/14/2025 - 12:17 Great Lakes Commission

In a sweeping proposal, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced Tuesday that his budget will include more than $145 million to address PFAS contamination. The bulk of the money would fund […]

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Dozens of mergansers found dead on Lake Michigan shore as bird flu continues

Fri, 02/07/2025 - 13:38 Great Lakes Commission

Since last Thursday, seven red-breasted mergansers were admitted to the Wisconsin Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center with symptoms consistent with the bird flu. Read the full story by Spectrum News.

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Hearing and comment period set on potential Lake Michigan commercial fishing rule

Wed, 01/29/2025 - 12:01 Great Lakes Commission

A process that could establish a commercial bycatch fishery for lake trout on the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan took another step forward January 22 when the Natural Resources Board […]

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Freight steamer, fireboat among another record number of Lake Michigan shipwreck discoveries

Fri, 01/24/2025 - 13:06 Great Lakes Commission

For a second year in a row, a record number of shipwrecks were discovered in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan waters last year. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, 17 total shipwrecks […]

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Free fishing weekend in Wisconsin offers chance to reel in without a license

Mon, 01/20/2025 - 11:17 Great Lakes Commission

It is officially free fishing weekend in Wisconsin. Wet a line without a fishing license, trout stamp, or salmon stamp January 18th and 19th in most waters, thanks to the […]

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Big Abe’s Net

Fri, 01/17/2025 - 05:33 Interlochen Public Radio

One calm September day, Big Abe LeBlanc set his fishing net in Lake Superior. Then he called law enforcement and turned himself in. What happened next changed fishing in the Great Lakes forever.

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‘A crisis’: Lake whitefish survey paints an even more dire picture

Thu, 01/16/2025 - 13:40 Interlochen Public Radio

One scientist thinks lake whitefish could disappear from certain parts of the Great Lakes within the next five years.

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