#the great lakes state

[shutterandsentence]

“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.” — E. E. Cummings

Photo: Manistee, Michigan

#michigan #nature #fall #autumn #november #poetry #ee cummings #literature #literary quotes #autumn leaves #autumn colors #autumn foliage #autumn vibes #manistee #northern michigan #the mitten #lower peninsula #lake michigan #the great lakes state #great lakes #midwest #river #fall colors #fall foliage #fall leaves #fall vibes #travel #tourism #adventure #explore

[shawnpgreene]

Michigan Passing Laws Against “Hate Speech” #pronouns

Free speech is again under attack! The Democrats of the state of Michigan is passing laws against so called “Hate Speech”. As I like to call it, The Great Lakes State’s “PRONOUN ACCURACY ACT” [more on this topic on this article from Gab News.] Michigan Is Passing “Hate Speech” Laws, Don’t Use The Wrong Pronouns– or…

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#Michigan #Pronouns #The Great Lakes State

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about the Great Lakes Region, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#great lakes #the united states #canada #north america #country polls #polls #not a country

[jigsawjo]

2024-04-08, 1000, “I Love Michigan”

#1000 #jigsaw puzzle #jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle #complete #white mountain puzzles #white mountain #Michigan #faygo #red wings #pistons #lions #tigers #big boy #motor city #hockeytown #fish #fishing #Great Lakes #Great Lakes state

[popculturelib]

Haunted States of America: Michigan

Haunts of the Upper Great Lakes (1997) by Dixie Franklin

A bit of superstition haunts most of us -- a remnant perhaps of the memories of chillingly scary ghost stories told to us in our childhood. Northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula have more than their share of ghosts and haunted spaces: from Lotta, the mysterious 'shady lady of the night' in Hurley, Wisconsin; to the ghost of Mary Green, who apparently thinks she is still the captain of the Delta Queen, an elegant paddlewheel boat that sails the Mississippi River today; to the mystery light that appears along a lonely road near Paulding, Michigan; to the various shades and ghostly occupants of homes and inns on Mackinac Island and across the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. There are haunted lighthouses, haunted mansions and inns, and haunted woods -- all waiting for you in Haunts of the Upper Great Lakes!

Check out these other books about haunts in Michigan!

Haunted Houses of Michigan (1998) by Karen Hoisington Donaldson

Haunted Michigan: Recent Encounters with Active Spirits (2000) by Gerald S. Hunter

Ghost Stories of Michigan (2002) by Dan Asfar

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

#bgsu #libraries on tumblr #haunted states of america #michigan #upper peninsula #great lakes #ghosts #books

[lake-lady]

Please thank me for bringing you ever more obscure and specific polls about lakes

#poll #lake #lakeposting #great lakes #lake superior #lake huron #lake ontario #lake victoria #lake baikal #lake tanganyika #lake malawi #lake nyasa #great bear lake #great slave lake #canada #united states #africa #russia #freshwater #freshwater science #limnology #beautiful #nature #outdoors #naturecore

[natureensouled]

Hoffmaster State Park, Michigan 04-24

Fujifilm X-H2

#fujifilm #bnw #camera #landscape #michigan #woodland #photography #fujifilmxseries #landscape photography #woodland photography #state park #woods #nature #trees #explore #discover #nature hikes #hike #trails #lake michigan #great lakes

[lonestarflight]

Great Lakes XSG observation plane sitting in a lake. "It had everything, seaplane, landing gear, tail hook, rear gunner. However, it did not have the speed requested and only one prototype was built."

Date: December 14, 1932

wawstl: link

#Great Lakes XSG #XSG #floatplane #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #December #1932 #interwar period #my post

[nickysfacts]

By providing the proper care for women and those who menstruate, whether it traditional or modern, empower them with the confidence and support that they need!

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#history #menstruation #ojibwe #moon lodge #mental health #indigenous history #great lakes #period health #united states #native american #women empowerment #femininity #menstruation history #people who menstruate #womens health #menstrual care #womens history #indigenous americans #traditional practices #period cramps #american history #indigenous culture #menstrual health #menstrual cycle #native american history #nickys facts

[shutterandsentence]

"Be strong and courageous...The Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

-Joshua 1:9

Photo: Macinac Island, Michigan

#michigan #great lakes #mackinac island #lake huron #midwest #church #historic church #quaint town #historic town #usa #mi #the wolverine state #the great lakes state #the mitten #travel #tourism #adventure #explore #joshua 1:9 #the holy bible #bible verse #christianity #christian living #hope #inspiration #god's word #holy scripture

[tomorrowusa]

The Great Salt Lake is drying up and the Republican government of Utah is doing little to save it. They constantly cave to the usual groups: agricultural interests, mining, homeowners who like spacious lawns in an arid region, and big industry.

The largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere has been steadily shrinking, as more and more water has been diverted away from the lake to irrigate farmland, feed industry and water lawns. A megadrought across the US south-west, accelerated by global heating, has hastened the lake’s demise. Unless dire action is taken, the lake could decline beyond recognition within five years, a report published early this year warned, exposing a dusty lakebed laced with arsenic, mercury, lead and other toxic substances.The resulting toxic dustbowl would be “one of the worst environmental disasters in modern US history”, the ecologist Ben Abbott of Brigham Young University told the Guardian earlier this year. Despite such warnings, officials have failed to take serious action, local groups said in their lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday. “We are trying to avert disaster. We are trying to force the hand of state government to take serious action,” said Brian Moench of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, one of the groups suing state agencies. “Plaintiffs pray that this Court declare that the State of Utah has breached its trust duty to ensure water flows into the Great Salt Lake sufficient to maintain the Lake,” reads the lawsuit, which was brought by coalition that includes Earthjustice, the Utah Rivers Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, among others.

Political pressure has not been very effective in a state dominated by Republicans. The state's response is lukewarm at best. That's in addition to bizarre proposals.

The state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, has suspended new claims to water in the Great Salt Lake basin and appointed a commissioner to oversee response to the lake crisis. Last year, Utah’s legislature passed several conservation measures, including a $40m trust to support lake preservation projects. But Abbott and his colleagues, who authored a sobering report on the lake in January, found that those measures increased flows to the lake by just 100,000 acre feet in 2022. About 2.5m acre-feet a year of water will need to flow into the lake to bring it to a healthy level, the researchers estimated. That water will likely have to come at the expense of agriculture, which takes in about three-quarters of the water diverted away from the lake to grow mostly alfalfa and hay. Cities and mineral extraction operations each take up another 9% of diverted water. But wresting water away from agriculture is politically complicated. Officials have explored propositions to pay farmers to fallow land and use less water, though such proposals have yet to gain much tractions. Lawmakers have also offered up a series of out-of-the-box solutions – including cloud seeding, which uses chemicals to prompt more precipitation – or building a giant pipeline from the Pacific Ocean.

Seriously, a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean? This is a classic idiotic GOP way to deal with an environmental catastrophe which doesn't get to the root of the problem.

Already, the lake has lost 73% of its water and 60% of its surface area, and is becoming saltier, threatening native flies and brine shrimp. A diminished lake may be unable to support the more than 10 million migratory birds that stop over in the region. A white pelican colony recently abandoned a nesting site on the lake, potentially due to declining water levels. “In addition to the millions of people who live here, so many plants and animals depend on the lake,” said Deeda Seed, Utah campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The health of northern Utah’s entire population depends on the Great Salt Lake’s survival and I hope this lawsuit can help save it.”

^^^ emphasis added

Yep, take their asses to court to save the body of water which gave the state's largest city its name.

#utah #great salt lake #water levels #diversion of water #the environment #migratory birds #white pelicans #brine shrimp #republicans #utah state government #spencer cox #deeda seed #brian moench #ben abbott #earthjustice #utah rivers council #the sierra club #center for biological diversity #utah physicians for a healthy environment

[zapsoda]

i was so confident when i began

#god #for my several indiana mutuals of which there are a shocking number of you #im sorry i havent figured out which one of those blobs by the great lakes is your state

[state-ofgrace]

Literally on page three of Happy Place and I’m already tearing up. Emily Henry just hits different.

#state-ofgrace #happy place #emily henry #great lakes

[bread--quest]

the thing that scares me about plains and flatlands is that like. ok if you're on the coast and you're distressed and you have to express your desire to escape the bounds of this mortal life you can always just go "I'M GOING TO WALK INTO THE SEA." this option is always available. if you are not on the coast but you're in a heavily forested biome you can go "I'M GOING TO GO INTO THE WOODS." right. and if you're conveniently situated by a mountain range you can even say "THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING AND I MUST GO." many such cases. right. but. if you're in fucking nebraska or something what are you gonna do?? where are you gonna go?? the other field adjacent to the field youre already in?? wheres the drama in that?? wheres the intrigue? these are the questions that plague me late at night

#wow look something original!! #placeposting #placeposting: midwest #certain bits of it anyway. the great lake states have options #rocky mountains. options #but nebraska. what are the options in nebraska #nebraskans please weigh in. if youre not busy vanishing into the corn or what have you

[lake-lady]

I couldn't help it I made another poll

#poll #great lakes #states #U.S. #me #mine #illinois #wisconsin #minnesota #ohio #michigan #indiana #pennsylvania #new york

[rowenabean]

The more people talk about US states the more I realise I have absolutely no idea where any given state is (why is the mid west so far east is all I'm asking)

#yes i know the historical reasons for why it's called that... #i can do: California Florida texas #i can give you a stab at new York but all the states over there look the same to me #i am aware Wisconsin is great lakes but i thought it was the OTHER side of the great lakes #but like. Chicago? fully thought that was west coast material and apparently i am wrong? #this is also thanks to Braiding Sweetgrass btw #i also thought ohio was somewhere in the middle like Nebraska or something #(i have a map in front of me atm)