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		<title>What&#8217;s in Your Water? &amp; How Wetlands Help (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As heard on Friday Edition, Jan. 27, 2012, at @9 AM Eastern. A radio transcript with video? Yes! Glass Half Full? What’s in your drinking water? If you live in this region, your tap water most likely comes from Saginaw Bay, via a water treatment plant. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just released a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=875&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Genes in Great Lakes Beach Sand &amp; Fixing Fishing Guides</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffkart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As heard at 9 a.m. Eastern, Fridays on Q-90.1 FM, Delta College &#8230; Speak Up on DNR Fishing and Hunting Guides The state Department of Natural Resources is working on improved fishing guides and hunting digests for 2013. But first, they’re asking for public input in an effort to make the guides more useful. So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=860&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Fish, Environmental Citizenship &amp; the Michigan Envirothon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffkart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Michigan Environment Report, as heard @ 9 a.m. Eastern on Fridays @ Q-90.1 FM &#8230; Fish Passage Fish are moving again in a Northeast Michigan trout stream. Ten road-stream crossings over Silver Creek, a stream that flows into a tributary of Lake Huron, were recently improved by the Huron Pines conservation group. The new culverts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=848&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dow Corning Makes Solar Stick, Beach Testing &amp; Saving $4 By Spending $1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffkart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan Enviro Report, as heard Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, at 9 a.m. Eastern on Q-90.1 FM, Delta College &#8230; 1 - New federal beach testing standards are coming out in October. Meanwhile, a federal study says more beach testing needs to be localized. The study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that water quality information collected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=836&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pop Sci Picks a Michigan Invention, EPA Reports on Enforcement, &amp; a 2012 Lightbulb Guide</title>
		<link>http://mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/pop-sci-michigan-forage-suma-epa-light-bulb-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffkart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saginaw River]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Environment Report. As heard Fridays @ 9 a.m. Eastern on Q-90.1 FM, Delta College Dec. 30, 2011: 1 &#8211; A Michigan invention has been named one of the “Best of” 2011 by Popular Science magazine. The product, called Forage Boost, was developed by researchers at Michigan State University. It’s a microbial fertilizer that uses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=825&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mich Enviro Report: Great Lakes Restoration &amp; Asian Carp Control Comments</title>
		<link>http://mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/mich-enviro-report-great-lakes-restoration-asian-carp-control-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffkart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As heard Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, on Delta College Q-90.1 FM &#8230; Merry Christmas 1. Michigan and other Great Lakes states are receiving a total of $300 million for environmental restoration projects under a 2012 federal budget bill passed recently by Congress. The Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition is praising the bill, which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=817&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mich Enviro Report: Rifle River Stats, Net Metering &amp; Saginaw Bay Phosphorus</title>
		<link>http://mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/mich-enviro-report-rifle-river-stats-net-metering-saginaw-bay-phosphorus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffkart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[invasive species]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As heard Dec. 9, 2011, on Delta College Q-90.1 FM &#8230; 1. Members of the nonprofit Huron Pines group in Grayling at pouring over stats from a study done this year of the Rifle River watershed.   The group spent time photographing and measuring the area this year. A total of 245 road and stream [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=811&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mich Enviro Report: SBCI Meeting, State Parks Gold Medal &amp; Green Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/mich-enviro-report-sbci-meeting-state-parks-gold-medal-green-infrastructure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffkart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As heard Nov. 25, 2011, on Delta College Q-90.1 FM &#8230; 1. Local and state environmental officials are planning a meeting in Bay City about Saginaw Bay issues. The regional meeting of the Saginaw Bay Coastal Initiative is set for Monday, Nov. 28, at the Bay County Fairgrounds Canteen Building. It is set to run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=805&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mich Enviro Report: Reptiles and Amphibians along Saginaw Bay &amp; State Park Passports</title>
		<link>http://mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/mich-enviro-report-reptiles-and-amphibians-along-saginaw-bay-state-park-passports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffkart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As heard on Delta College radio, Q-90.1 FM &#8230; on Friday, 11-11-11 &#8230; 1. A new visitor passport system is bringing in more money to Michigan state parks.  According to Great Lakes Echo, Michigan Recreation Passports now allow almost 2 million vehicles access to all state parks. The passports cost $10 per year and can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=799&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mich Enviro Report: Gypsy Moth Eggs, Water Power &amp; Student Scientists</title>
		<link>http://mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/mich-enviro-report-gypsy-moth-eggs-water-power-student-scientists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As heard Nov. 4, 2011, on Q-90.1 FM, Delta College &#8230; 1. Don’t scrape that tree. The Bay County Gypsy Moth Suppression Program is conducting egg mass surveys for the fall. The surveys are used to determine the size of the Gypsy Moth population in wooded areas of the county. If the egg mass surveys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrgreatlakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14302895&amp;post=794&amp;subd=mrgreatlakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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