As a new feature ion the site we are going to provide a short list of the best news and blog postings that concern the Great Lakes. If you have an item you desire to have included in our listing then please place it as a comment on this post to share it with our readers.

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Relevant Posts for the week ending Sunday January 11, 2009. We will be using a Monday – Sunday week for this listing. This first collection of articles contains a number of items since the start 2009.

• The first new Great Lakes diversion
• Summary questions regarding Waukesha’s proposed Lake Michigan diversion plan
• Conference on Great Lakes Cities – March 12-14, 2009
• New NOAA Great Lakes Laboratory Opens, New Acting Director Named
• New library director has another passion — Great Lakes
• Protect the Great Lakes AND Our Oceans
• <a href=”http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2009/01/great_lakes_compact_energy_bil.html”Great Lakes Compact, energy bill among important Ohio legislation passed in 2008
• Great Lakes ecology endangered by foreign species
• More species invasion in Great Lakes
• More species invasions feared for Great Lakes This is an Associated Press article found on hundreds of other sites such as:
  • Prairie State Outdoors

  • Minnesota Public Radio
  • Daily Herald
  • Michagan Messenger
  • Post Tribune

Related posts:

• Great Lakes Around the Web – January 21 – January 27, 2009
• Great Lakes Around the Web – January 27 – February 1, 2009
• The Great Lakes Around the Web – January 12 – 20, 2009
• Great Lakes Around the Web – May 18 – June 1, 2009
• Help the Great Lakes on Blog Action Day