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Vacationland was an American double-ended automobile ferry, built by Great Lakes Engineering Works for the Michigan State Highway Department.She was built to operate the route from St. Ignace to Mackinaw City through the Straits of Mackinac year-round, and was equipped with powerful engines and a reinforced hull to break through heavy ice.
The only state that has allowed oil and gas drilling beneath the Great Lakes in recent years has been Michigan, and that only by directional drilling from onshore surface locations. All oil and gas drilling, either on or directionally beneath the Great Lakes, has been banned by federal law since 2002.
Small lakes are freezing later and thawing earlier than a century ago, which shortens the season for ice fishing and ice skating and can cause those to become impossible or unsafe due to thin and unreliable ice coverage upon lakes especially in the extreme south of the state. Since the early 1970s, winter ice coverage in the Great Lakes has ...
Two Macomb County conservation officers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources were presented DNR Lifesaving Awards for saving the life of a fisherman who fell through ice in February.
The ice on Lake Michigan at/near the shore was about 12 to 18 inches thick and was rock solid like a fortress. MUSKEGON, MI. — It was back in early winter 2015 when we had just recorded the ...
Last year, ice coverage peaked at about 23% and by mid-February, ice only covered 7% of the lakes. Earth experienced its hottest year on record in 2023 , largely because of human-caused climate ...
This ice recession went far enough to allow the lake to drop about 20 feet (6.1 m) below the lowest of the Arkona beaches to Lake Warren levels. [1] The strip of Lake bottom between the Whittlesey and Warren beaches in southeastern Michigan is largely a clayey plain, the principal exceptions being at deltas of Lake Arkona.
Frozen waves formed along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Saint Joseph, Michigan, as the city faced temperatures as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit in the last week.Footage filmed by Nathan Voytovick ...