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A roller coaster of weather is ahead for Lake Erie this weekend. If you’re hoping to get some time out on the water, I’d go for Friday morning and afternoon, and again on Monday. Saturday and Sunday, you may want to avoid the lake. (Unfortunately, the Midwest Collegiate Sailing Fall Championship regatta at the Old…
Read MoreMeet Jen Brumfield, a Cleveland Metroparks naturalist who in 2012 set a new Cuyahoga County record for most bird species observed in a year. Now she’s trying to break her own record. That means when Brumfield’s not working, entertaining school kids at the Rocky River Nature Center or leading birding walks at Wendy Park, she’s…
Read MoreThis winter, Clevelanders can watch ice form on Lake Erie from the middle of Public Square. A public art installation from LAND Studio will feature a large video kiosk showing live camera feeds from Gibraltar Island, Put-in-Bay and Maumee Bay. “Waiting for a Break” by artist Julia Christensen will be unveiled Dec. 16, with shots…
Read MoreYou can see the party scene of Put-in-Bay 100 yards from here. But the Ohio State University students who spend their summers at Stone Laboratory on this 6.5-acre chunk of dolomite sandstone in the Put-in-Bay harbor don’t venture over very often. They’re too busy studying, assessing water samples, tagging water snakes, examining quagga mussels. Besides,…
Read MoreThey came from yacht clubs and marinas all along Ohio’s north coast, to voice their concerns about Lake Erie. They worry about harmful algal blooms, invasive species, dredging, erosion, the dead zone in the central basin. They want Norfolk Southern railroad to raise the bridge over the Cuyahoga River more quickly, and renters of kayaks…
Read MoreCLEVELAND, Ohio – About 125 college sailors and coaches are coming to Cleveland, to bunk with local families and compete in the city’s first Midwest Fall Championship regatta. The Foundry, which trains student rowers and sailors from its headquarters in the Flats, is hosting the event from the at the tip of Whiskey Island, since the…
Read MoreWant to watch the sun rise from your front yard and the sun set from the back? While hanging out on your private beach or lounging in your own pool? Check out this $2.74 million, 8,800-square-foot stunner on Cedar Point Road in Sandusky. The four-bedroom house, built in 2001, features lots of hard wood, a…
Read MoreTime to start making those holiday wish lists! If you’re an angler, maybe you’re hoping for a new fishfinder for Christmas or Hanukkah, so you can more easily catch walleye or perch on Lake Erie. Fishfinders work with sonar, sending sound waves that travel through the water, then reflect when they hit an object. You…
Read MoreWant to know where and what to fish for? In his weekly Cleveland Metroparks fishing report, aquatic biologist Mike Durklec says the walleye night bite is “good and getting even better.” While white bass and yellow perch fishing are slow lately, anglers can catch walleye from the shore by casting stickbaits and glow-in-the-dark spoons. Anglers…
Read MoreIt sounds like a horror movie: the dead zone. But it happens every year in the central basin of Lake Erie, when warmer water stratifies from the colder water below and the oxygen gets used up by decaying organisms. Fish flee because the water has too little oxygen for them to survive. Organisms that can’t…
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