Great Lakes

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…

The woman that was first elected as a senator and made history in the United States is Debbie Stabenow, who is the senator for the state of Michigan, and part of the Democratic Party. Senator Stabenow is passionate about many issues like saving the lakes in Michigan, and making healthcare affordable for everyone, but she in not passionate about the immigration issue and fixing the immigration problems that the United States has. Senator Debbie Stabenow was born in Gladwin, Michigan, and lived…

Did you know Lake Erie is called the “burning river” or “dead lake”? Sixth of Lake Erie's water was covered in toxic algae. Since so many algae is in Lake Erie it’s spreading to other rivers such as the Maumee river which now only supplies 5 percent. Algaes has now expand across the western Lake Erie shoreline from Monroe to the Lake Erie islands. Algae bloom has been a growing problem now since the 2000s. Unregulated dumping of sewage and industrial pollutants with similar algae blooms and…

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…

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 of the somewhat new research topic of invasive species deals with AIS’s impacts related to ecology and biodiversity, with many more recent research endeavors focused on the anthropocentric impacts such as property damage and the creation…

From the time the Great lakes where discovered by Native American to the current day, the lakes have played a vital role in American history, from serving as transportation of humans and trade goods to the far reaches of war. They have helped transform the American people and the landscape both east and west of their location. The vessels used during the revolutionary war were constructed of many materials just like todays ships. Only difference is what was used. The vessels used during the…

also have begun to travel towards the Great Lakes. These animals, if they begin to thrive in the Great Lakes, may ravage fisheries valued at $7 billion per year. Also, some boaters…

on the Great Lakes Make a Difference?” Bowling Green State University, Firelands Campus student Sara E. Cordle wrote an in-depth essay entitled; “Albatross in The Red Sky; Does Irrational Superstition on The Great Lakes Make a Difference?, explaining how the maritime superstitions had a major impact on the seamen of the Great Lakes. The author states how these superstitions can affect the seamen psychologically as well as physiologically and how they can put their crew members in great…

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 when they cast their vote during an elections season. After being divided most of the 20th Century, we will see why voters have directed their loyalty to the Democratic Party but the most important question that…

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…