Great Lakes region

Flooding due to climate change will affect and has affected the Great Lake Regions. The Chequamegon Bay area is located in Lake Superior. Ashland and Bayfield counties in the State of Wisconsin surround the bay. This area takes in large amounts of rainwater run off from streams, rivers and towns. Ashland, Iron and Bayfield Counties all have waters that shed to the Chequamegon Bay. My father and his family came from Ashland, Wisconsin. I currently have a brother and family relatives living in the surrounding areas. Ashland is a town located on the Chequamegon Bay, in Ashland County. July 12, 2016 surrounding counties of the Chequamegan Bay area had rainfalls of 8-12+ inches. This large amount of rain took out roads, and even a small town close…

places like Los Angeles and New York all the more tragic.” People outside of the midwest have a lot of different stereotypes, Marquart gives example like blond and innocent for how they view young women. This is a bad point of view because its giving the stereotype that people from the midwest cant do anything for themselves. Even though the midwestern states are large producers of many of the nation agriculture, people view the residents as different. Marquart talks about how some even feel…

The importance of the Algonquian native american tribe in the Eastern Great Lakes Region is essential in understanding the region’s political reasoning, this can be understood in the article The Significance of Algonquian Kinship Networks in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600-1701 by Heidi Bohaker, a professor who resides at University of Toronto . The purpose of this comes from an event that occurred in the summer of 1701, author states “the twelve hundred French residents of Montreal played…

A current environmental issue in the Great Lakes region is the threat of Asian Carp invading the Great Lakes. Many environmentalists are very concerned about this threat and are seeking ways to prevent this from occurring. Asian carp are invasive fish from Southeast Asia that can cause harm the ecosystem, economy, property, and boaters. (National Wildlife Federation) They are filter-feeding fish and voracious eaters that consume plankton, algae, and other microscopic organisms which are the key…

If one was to look at Ontario as a region we find a great variation in ecosystems. We may divide the province into four regions, the Hudson Bay Lowlands in the northern reaches of the province, the Boreal Forest, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest and Deciduous forest (Government of Ontario). 26 million hectares, covering one of the largest expanses of wetland in the world, the Hudson Bay Lowlands is characterized by bogs, fens, few slow growing forest and tundra, of this two-thirds of this…

problems are seen throughout the world, many strategic plans need to be developed in order to tackle these issues, but sometimes researchers come up short (Kreuter & De Rosa, 2004). The Great Lakes ecosystem is the largest body of freshwater in the world. This ecosystem holds 18% of the worlds freshwater supply in the world, it covers 95000 square miles of shoreline; includes 5000 tributaries and has an area of drainage of 288000 square miles. The Basin is populated with more than 35 million…

INTRODUCTION Background Invasive species are defined as non-native species that invade ecosystems and propagate to a point where harm is induced on native species. Types and abundance of harm caused to native ecosystems can vary greatly depending on various biotic and abiotic factors. Although the amount of accredited research devoted to aquatic invasive species (AIS) doesn’t reach far beyond the past few decades, the natural history of invasive species surely does (Pysek, 2010). A great deal…

One of the greatest responsibilities and freedoms we have in the United States of America is the right to vote and pick our political officials. This responsibility should never be taken lightly or be wasted by not being responsible and reviewing what the leaders that we vote in power believe in or what they can do for communities and our country. By looking at local and federal election data, and other areas of research, we will see what voters in the Great Lakes states are thinking about…

One of Child Soldiers International's campaigns is specifically addressing the recruitment and use of child soldiers in three Great Lakes countries: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda. The Great Lakes program combines country specific advocacy, locally-based monitoring, capacity building among local community-based NGOs, and public education. The organization supports local NGO partners' advocacy efforts and their monitoring and reporting capacity on behalf of the child…

The four physical regions of New Mexico 1 the rocky mountains the rocky mountains consist of mostly of mountains  but it has 4 major rivers in it they are the Rio Grande the Rio Chama the Gallinas river and the Pecos River and 2 lakes and they are the eagle nest lake and the Abiqulu reservoir there are 2 major towns here and they are Los Alamos(As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 17,950 people) It is approximately 90 miles north of Albuquerque, 35 miles from Santa Fe, and 55 miles…