Category: Green Page
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Looking to cast your lines and reel in the big one? Try one of these great fishing events in 2014.
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Timeline of Lake Michigan Invasive Species
Since the 1800s, more than 180 non-indigenous aquatic species from around the world have established in the Lake Michigan ecosystem. The ones named – including humans –have become well established and present a high ecological and economic impact on the ecosystem.
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By the Numbers: A snapshot of our fishery
A snapshot of numbers that illustrate the health of the lakes today.
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The Grand Traverse Islands – Worthy of National Lakeshore Designation
In 1930 the boosters of Bayfield, Wis., invited a representative of the National Park Service to determine whether the Apostle Islands were suitable for designation as a national park.
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From the Lake to Your Plate – Easy Local Fish Recipes
Three great recipes using locally caught fish (bonus – they’re easy to make!).
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How Environmental Regulation Helped Save Door County’s Fisheries
The Great Lakes fishing industry, valued at $4-7 billion annually, owes nearly all of it to the environmental regulations of the early 1970s.
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Tom Christianson – Master of the Fish Boil
For 18 years Tom Christianson has helmed Door County’s most famous tradition at the White Gull Inn.
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Kevin Naze – Champion of the Outdoors Life
Few people are more passionate about keeping the Door Peninsula’s outdoor traditions alive, and its future sustainable.
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Bud and Vicky Harris – Still Work to be Done in Green Bay
UW-Green Bay Emeritus Professor Bud Harris and former UW Sea Grant researcher Vicky Harris spent 30 years analyzing Green Bay waters.
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Is commercial fishing in Door County destined to disappear?
The commercial fishing industry isn’t an easy one to get into, and is even tougher to stick out. Steve Grutzmacher wonders if it can survive.
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A Different Take on Regulation
In our 8th annual Sustainability Issue, we look at how environmental regulation saved the Lake Michigan fishery – and a multi-billion dollar industry.
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Whitefish Changes Diet to Survive
Broiled, blackened, fried or fish boiled, the whitefish means more to Door County menus than any other fish. But as recently as 2006 the people who know the fish best feared the end was near.
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Deadline Extension for Buying Trees
It’s not too late – the order date was extended for crabapple trees offered by the Jacksonport Women’s Club. Due to weather conditions the order deadline and delivery dates have been revised; the last day to order is April 25.
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If Paul Regnier could order weather, for May 31 he would want a cool, sunny morning with a low front moving in from the north and stopping just north of Door County.
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Article posted Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:42am
Anyone out there suffer from trypophobia? The name literally means “fear of holes.” Sufferers become uncomfortable or even repulsed by viewing photographs or actual structures riddled with holes.
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For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth-observing missions will be launched into space in a single year. To celebrate this milestone, NASA is inviting people all around the world to step outside on Earth Day, April 22, take a “selfie,” and share it with the world on social media.
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Garlic mustard and phragmites are old news, but what about some of the early detection invasive species that occur in very small patches in Door County? “The Importance of Early Detection” workshop, held May 2 from 3 to 4:30 pm at the Baileys Harbor Town Hall, will focus on imminent invaders and the technology to fight them.
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Nicole James, CFMP, CNC and wellness therapist at Sturgeon Bay’s Center for Optimal Health will present a seminar at Greens N Grains on April 17 at 1 pm that will discuss the most effective ways to detox and cleanse your body.
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No Impact Man will be screened on April 15, 4:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in north Ephraim. This documentary tells the story of a writer living in Manhattan who had the usual concerns about the future of the environment until he realized he wasn’t doing much about it.
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Article posted Thursday, April 3, 2014 2:53pm
According to Science and other science publications, the biomedical breakthrough of 2013 is cancer immunotherapy. In a nutshell, cells of a cancer patient’s immune system are manipulated and “taught” to seek out and destroy cancer cells.