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About Me

I'm am so much cleaner than you'd imagine & change every day. I can turn myself over in days. I'm technically the same lake as Lake Huron, though I've got my own patterns of movement goin' on. I'm ~900 ft deep in the deepest, and ~300 ft deep at my mid-lake reef. I have another reef, Grey's Reef, separating me from Lake Huron in the north. They cut a trench in it to let freighters through.Big news of the last 10 years has been my invasion by Dressind mussels: Zebra mussels in shallow waters, then Quagga mussels in the deep. Now, Quaggas are starting to outcompete Zebras nearshore. Those little bastards can each filter so much water...a liter a day. They've changed my ecology & cleared the water column. LIGHT IS SHINING on my floor where it hasn't before. So now I more often house algae blooms & keep beachcombers on my western shore busy with mats of filamentous algae, Cladophora.Researchers, too.I've also been invaded by:Rusty Crayfish, Spiny Water Flea, Common Bighead Carp, Round Goby , Eurasian Ruffe, Sea Lamprey (ugly!) & White Perch. Curly-leaf Pondweed, Eurasian Watermilfoil & Hydrillia (from fish tanks!).Propagation work focuses primarily on Yellow Perch, Lake Sturgeon (living dinosaurs!), Whitefish, Lake Trout, hybrid Striped Bass and Sunfish. Pacific salmon have done well in me, too.The three Great Lakes of Africa would hold more water than the Laurentian Great Lakes, but people don't talk about Africa much.I like sailors, and sailboats. I've sunk quite a few of them. You can dive & check out my wrecks. I like kayaks, surfers, paddleboats, windsurfers, kitesurfers, people who grow organically. And fisherman. I'm not such a fan of jet skis, mercury contamination from coal-fired power plants, current phosphorus amounts in agricultural fertilizers, sewage overflows, lawn chemicals, or cigarette boats. (Did you hear that, Navy Pier?)I would like to see more funding from the EPA, and I really dig keeping my water to myself, and seeing it returned cleanly.I'm quite swell (get it?) at inspiring photography, meditation, weather patterns, humans pretending to be polar bears, and holding steady.If you love me, you can protect me.

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Member Since: 5/26/2005
Band Website: glwi.uwm.edu
Band Members: 8 United States but 1 Province make up the Great Lakes border regions. Lake Michigan consists of Water, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Hydrogen & Silica. I'm backed by Radon, Helium, Barium, and other Radioactives, serving as tracers to my past & not so past history. I hold so many secrets.
Influences: the Oil in diatoms that makes fish smell like fish. Glaciers. Upwelling. Current. Chino Horde.
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Sounds Like: waves crashing. water sloshing. rocks rocking. seaweed. fish moving. click here to go on a virtual cruise on Lake Michigan
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Care about sewage overflows? Drop knowledge & do this....

12 GALLONS A MINUTE. The amount of water each downspout can deliver to the sewer system during a heavy storm. Each one in this entire drainage district! (That's alot of downspouts over a lot of land.)...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:44:00 PST

Lake Effect snow, yo.

Posted by Lake Michigan on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:18:00 PST

"All that Green Sh*t" or, why it's a good idea to protect river fronts from storm runoff

Unfortunately, all that 'green shit' is an invasive algae, Cladophora sp., that's been here since the 1800's and grows with vigor as the phosphorus it requires is slipped into rivers and into the Lake...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:19:00 PST

Lake Stugeon... living dinosaurs!

This Sturgeon was caught on the Fraser River just above the Mission bridge a few weeks ago. It weighed over 1, 000 lbs and measured 11 feet, 1 inch. It was 56" around the girth and took over 6 and h...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:55:00 PST

faq: Eating Great Lakes Fish

first, a little indentification: for more info on life habits & fish ecology, try Wisconsin Sea Grant (click on dark blue.) really, truely, it's ok to eat Lake Michigan's fish! just dont do ...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:23:00 PST

Join the Polar Bear Club on New Year's Day!!!

If you love the lake or the ocean or the wee bay in your proximity, Lake Michigan hopes you'll take a dip on New Year's Day at Noon.In Chicago, it's at the North Avenue Beach. In Milwaukee, it's at Br...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:21:00 PST

Yacht Rock!

http://www.channel101.com/shows/view.php?media_id=805 You must check this out. OOooh to be born in the 70's, and loving the swell tunes of the early 80's. Lake Michigan's favorite line invo...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:35:00 PST

22 foot waves! Danger! Thanksgiving Storm.

While the rest of us are watching football, Lake people will be watching this buoy.http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=45007 All the lakers (cargo ships) are headed towards the western sh...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:29:00 PST

Sea Smoke!!! for the first cold day. Gorgeous.

Sea Smoke! ~whisp whisp whisp~ It's cold. First cold cold morning of my western shore. Hope you enjoyed the sea smoke off me & my harbors this morning. Sea, if it's cold as all get out, at l...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:03:00 PST

surf is up today. Monday.

get up on that! southeast shores. huge current, today, too. find kiara's profile & hit her up if you'd like to get out of dodge & hang out on a longboard. water temp outside the harbour ...
Posted by Lake Michigan on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 04:53:00 PST