#Great Lakes region

[momsopposed2theoccult]

Oh, you’re from Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota? Okay, tell me where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours. 

#gordon lightfoot #edmund fitzgerald #ontario #canada #great lakes #great lakes region #lake superior #michigan #wisconsin #minnesota #behind every canadian is a deep history with this song #and people from the great lakes region of the us too i'm assuming although it is a canadian song

[rabbitcruiser]

The Marshall Field and Company Building is known for its two exterior clocks, which weigh about 7.5 short tons (6.7 long tons) each, on its northwest and southwest corners along State Street at both Randolph and Washington Streets. The southwest clock at the original Washington Street intersection, known as “The Great Clock”, was installed on November 26, 1897.  

#Marshall Field and Company Building #The Great Clock #installed #Chicago #26 November 1897 #original photography #2014 #tourist attraction #USA #landmark #cityscape #vacation #travel #Illinois #Marshall Field's Clock #close up #technology #Midwestern USA #Great Lakes Region #2019 #summer 2016 #US history #anniversary #architecture #111 North State Street

[thoughtportal]

Great Lakes Sea Shanties

#tiktok #black history month #black history #black history Michigan #michigan history #history #michigan #detroit #michigan radio #great lakes region #great lakes #sea shanties #sea shanty

[lake-lady]

#please vote for your favorite murderous guy #dangerous babies #poll #great lakes #great lakes region #carnivore #mammals #mammal #food web #ecosystem #ecology #biology #wildlife #nature #naturecore #animals #cute #me #mine #pictures #images #bear #fox #wolf #coyote #lynx #weasel #black bear #bobcat

[tomorrowusa]

One book I’d like to read before the year is over is The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle.

He appeared in this podcast episode with FiveThirtyEight’s Galen Druke.

Climate change has already been the cause of some internal migration inside the US. We should expect that to accelerate as the century progresses. It will be almost the reverse of the late 20th/early 21st century migration to the sunbelt and coastal areas. 

While no part of the US is completely immune to the effects of climate change, the Great Lakes region and Upper Midwest are likely to fare somewhat better than other parts of the country.

Cities in the Great Lakes area are already beginning to think through the effects of a surging population.

Except for the New Madrid fault in southeastern Missouri, the Midwest is not subject to major earthquakes; volcanoes and tsunamis are unknown there.  Once people around the US rethink the overall benefits of living in the region, sustainable growth may become one of the most acute issues in the area. 

#climate change #climate migration #usa #jake bittle #galen druke #midwest #great lakes region #sustainability

[licenseplateshowdown]

Great Lakes Region Semifinals

Wisconsin vs Ohio

#license plates #tournament #wisconsin #ohio #round 2 #great lakes region #central conference #western league

[fleurdufeu]

Tamara Thomson from the Wisconsin Historical society found Another ancient canoe in Lake Mendota!

From the article:

“The canoe is about 14.5 feet long and carved from a single piece of white oak. It is believed to be the oldest canoe discovered in the Great Lakes region by roughly 1,000 years.”

#it’s so damn cool #archaeology #archeology #Great Lakes region #just fyi that local tribal leaders are working with the wisconsin historical society on this #it’s just so cool to me to think of people living in the same place as me 3000 years ago #and boating and fishing on the same lakes #lake mendota #underwater archaeology #cheesehead tag #wisconsin

[archi-playground]

I had the joy of making a trip to visit David Salmela at his home and studio in Duluth. He gave me the tour of his home which sits amongst three others he designed, perched on the rocky hillside overlooking Lake Superior.

#David salmela #salmela #Duluth architecture #Great Lakes region #residential #flat roof #detail #architect #modern architecture #richlite #no gutters #model making

[bumblebeeappletree]

They’re hooked 🎣 This unique fishing tournament is helping decrease the population of invasive fish in the Great Lakes region

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#AsianCarp #fishing #illinois #Politics #News #NowThis

#now this news #now this #solarpunk #fish #invasive species #invasive fish #USA #Great Lakes #Great Lakes region #Asian carp #illinois #fishing competition #Youtube

[cats-and-airplanes]

How can people in the Great Lakes Region stand winter time without snow? Short days and grey skies are at least tolerable when there's a solid layer of snow to reflect the light.

#dont get me wrong this is my favourite kind of springtime weather #but it's supposed to happen in the SPRING #great lakes region #Toronto

[rabbitcruiser]

The Pittsfield Building was designated as a Chicago Landmark on November 6, 2002.

#Pittsfield Building #Chicago Landmark #6 November 2002 #20th anniversary #US history #55 E. Washington St #Graham Anderson Probst & White #Art Deco #Gothic style #skyscraper #original photography #skyline #architecture #cityscape #the Loop #Chicago #Illinois #Midwestern USA #Great Lakes Region #summer 2019 #2016

[fatehbaz]

At the intersection of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, the corn monoculture melts away to reveal green rolling hills and deep gorges. The lush forest is pockmarked by steep-banked ponds, carved out by retreating glaciers 10,000 years ago. Standing waist-deep in a forest pool, Megan Seymour scans the shrubby banks with binoculars. A slight change in colour and texture spotted in the tangled buttonbush swamp reveals her quarry: a thick, glossy, copperbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta). [...]

The copperbelly water snake – named for its tangerine-orange underside – inhabited what was one of the largest wetland areas in North America.

Roughly the size of Connecticut and stretching from Fort Wayne in Indiana across much of north-west Ohio, the Great Black Swamp was home to elk, wolves, mountain lions and black bears.

In the mid-19th century, farmers began to clear the trees and drain the swamp to access the fertile soil hidden beneath the water. In just five decades, the Great Black Swamp was dry.

Today, the copperbelly water snake lays claim to just 50 sq km (20 sq miles) of remnant swamp forest in the tri-state area – slightly smaller than Manhattan Island.

Though the exact number of the reptiles is not known, experts estimate that fewer than 100 individuals, possibly as few as 40, remain.

“I think they will be gone within 20 years,” says [...] a land steward with the Nature Conservancy [...]. He believes saving the copperbelly water snake is essential to the region’s ecology because it is “an umbrella species” [...] for dozens of other declining species that rely on the swamp forest, including the rare bobolink blackbird and the checkerspot butterfly. When Seymour began searching for copperbelly water snakes in spring 2021, no one had seen one alive in the wild in almost three years. She spent more than 180 hours combing through the wetlands historically inhabited by the species but found none. [...]

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All content above, images, caption, and text published by: Ryan Wagner. “‘They aren’t mean and they aren’t trying to get you’: saving the copperbelly water snake.” The Guardian. 14 February 2023. [All photos published with this story were also taken by Ryan Wagner. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks added by me.]

For reference, here’s the distribution range of the copperbelly water snake:

And here, what was once the Great Black Swamp:

Snake, endemic species unique to Great Lakes region and flooded prairies of the “Prairie Peninsula,” nearly extinct.

#extinction #endemic species #great lakes #prairie #go check out the distribution map for the Kirtlands snake and see how it also is endemic to limited wetlands in Illinois Indiana and Ohio #Kirtlands snake is a crayfish specialist that lives in crustacean burrow systems in flooded prairies #also the eastern massasauga aka the miniature swamp rattlesnake also uses crayfish burrows and limited to wetlands of great lakes region

[pastafossa]

Respectfully: IT'S FUCJING MARCH, WHY IS THERE SNOW, I WAS IN A TANK TOP AND SHORTS ONE WEEK AGO 😂

#god i love the great lakes region #only here could i be dragging driftwood out of the water while wearing a tank and shorts #and also bundled up in my parka #all in the same week #also yes spud had snow zoomies

[licenseplateshowdown]

Great Lakes Region Finals

Minnesota vs Ohio

#license plates #tournament #minnesota #ohio #round 3 #great lakes region #central conference #western league

[coollizzylou]

OLLIE QUEEN??????? (From the episode 4 promo)

#my adventures with superman #maws spoilers #love the fact we were all clambering for a Brucie cameo #and forgot our silly little goatee green guy from the Great Lakes region #ouagh the new episode was cool too

[randomlygeneratedusername2]

Reorganized all my pins! I just got some new ones and some areas seemed a bit overcrowded so I thought it was time for a redo of everything. Also I think some patches on the black jacket are new enough there aren't pictures of them on here yet, so there's that.

Here's all the pins laid out

Tragically I lost the worn on a string pin I made awhile ago. Wormy himself is still there on the vest, but his unnamed friend is not. I'll make a new one soon probably

Also added some patches to the back of the black jacket, but there's more to add so I'll hold off on the update for when I get my hands on those

#also just noticing the great lakes are missing on the theres no planet b pin #as a resident of the great lakes region i am offended #give me back my beloved lake Michigan #diy #pins #patches #punk #transgender