During the Chicago to Mackinac race last year, Juanita Pierman watched as large sailboats passed by the Pentwater Municipal Marina.

The vessels drifted toward the safer confines of Ludington's commercial harbor rather than risk grounding on a sandbar nearly blocking the recreational port.

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Steelhead continue to filter into the St. Joseph River at Mishawaka and more should be coming with the drop in water temperatures. Bodine Hatchery officials have recorded more than 3,000 steelhead, nearly 400 kings and 30 coho passing through the South Bend ladder as of Oct. 2.

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The Joyce Foundation of Chicago is granting $5 million to organizations to help clean up the Maumee River and three of its tributaries — ultimately to help reduce pollution in Lake Erie.

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Climate change appears likely to reduce already low Great Lakes water levels even more, making it more urgent to approve a regional compact protecting them from diversion and overuse, environmentalists said Tuesday.

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