Lake Superior Project
LSProject: Trafficking & Lake Superior Part 1
Joe Friedrichs-Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is a crime that happens everywhere – even here in northeastern Minnesota.
LSProject: "A thoroughfare for tar sands crude oil shipping?"
Joe Friedrichs-Coal. Iron ore. Grain. Limestone. Cement. Salt. Wood pulp. Wind turbine components. Steel coil.
LSProject: Adapting, A Year Later
Joe Friedrichs-A year ago on the Lake Superior Project, we spoke with several people around the lake—environmental advocates, policy makers, residents, and others—about climate change.
LSProject: Ballast Water Discharge Permit Updates
Joe Friedrichs-Invasive species are arguably one of the biggest—and most expensive—issues facing Lake Superior and the Great Lakes today.
LSProject: A New Generation of Conservationists
-If you tuned into the last edition of the Lake Superior Project, you heard the story of Rick Schubert.
LSProject: Healthy River, Healthy Lake
-The Flute Reed River is located on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Hovland, Minnesota.
LSProject: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
-When we started the Lake Superior Project at the beginning of 2012, one of the most common subjects to come up besides issues facing the lake was funding for restoration projects.
LSProject: The Great Waste
-By now you might have heard of a thing called “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” But if you haven’t, it’s basically a large vortex in the center of the Pacific Ocean where scie
LSProject: The Life Salvelinus
-The Grand Portage Native Fish Hatchery has been producing and rearing coaster brook trout, a native Lake Superior fish, since 2007.
LSProject: A Century of Water
-Huge, endless, large—these are just a few words you might use to describe Lake Superior. At 31,700 square miles, it is the largest freshwater lake by surface area in the world.
