The Neebish Island News

Last winter I told some California anglers about the great steelhead fishing in the Great Lakes. While they might not have considered it an outright lie, you could see they thought it was an exaggeration.

At depths ranging between 60 and 140 feet, researchers found lines of large stones, which may have been “drive lanes” that aided early hunters as they tried to take down galloping caribou.

The movie was shot mostly in Sault Ste. Marie and on Neebish Island, an island in the St. Mary’s River.

The upper portion of the lighthouse is modelled after the historic Peggy’s Cove lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

The lower portion resembles the former area lighthouse, which stood on Neebish Island.

According to the Department of Natural Resources, commercial fishermen were able to pull more than 650,000 pounds of smelt from Lake Michigan in 2006. By 2008, that number was cut in third to just more than 208,000 pounds. So far this year, the smelt harvest has been a paltry 19,000 pounds.

"Our big thrill is that it is the first and only trail in the state that really caters to the Jeep, truck and SUV crowd, full size four-wheel drive vehicles,"

Lakes Huron and Michigan are not losing an unnaturally high volume of water to Lake Erie, and there is no need to place barriers in the St. Clair River to stem the outflow as a Canadian group is demanding, says an engineering study released Friday...

..."Climate is the main driver of the lake level relationships between lakes over time," it says. "There has been a persistent decline in net total supply of water to Lake Superior and Lake Michigan-Huron over the past two decades that has resulted in declining lake levels and a change in the relationship to Lake Erie."

The $10.5 million Predator aircraft, which flies at 19,000 fleet, carries no weapons, but it has an awesome camera that can spot a person crossing the border from 25 miles away, said Juan Munoz-Torres, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“It’s a great platform,” Munoz-Torres said. “It’s very, very effective.”

There is no date for the aircraft to start its patrols. Munoz-Torres said the aircraft likely would be based in the Alpena area.

An official at Michigan's Hiawatha National Forest... suggests feeding the Mascoma plant would wipe out the annual harvest in the eastern Hiawatha within 180 days.

“On Saturday we will make the initial cuts down by Mud Lake (Munuscong Bay),” said Director of Traffic Services Mark Gill, warning ATV operators, snowmobilers and ice fishermen to avoid any proximity to the shipping channels.

From 1953 to 1956, Rev. Nelson served as pastor of Presbyterian churches in Dafter, Donaldson, and Neebish Island near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

Some shipping companies have told the U.S. Maritime Administration that the problem has forced them to dock or even sell vessels. Others said it has kept them from expanding fleets, or caused delayed voyages and lost contracts.

...the last time lake levels fell dramatically - down to 20 meters below the basin overflow outlets - it was due to dry climate conditions."

That event, which occurred between 7900 and 7500 years ago in the early Holocene period, caused the lakes to become disconnected as their overflow rivers, including the Niagara River, ran dry.