Great Lakes Connection

Soo Locks Engineers Day is hosted annually by the city of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, along with the Sault Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, and US Army Corps of Engineers. 

Approaches to ecosystem management in the Great Lakes are largely guided by Western science.

Restoring and revitalizing designated Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes has long been seen as bringing environmental, health and economic benefits to those regions.

What do Midwesterners do in a drought like the one that some of our region is experiencing? Turn on the lawn sprinklers and irrigators? That is an approach of the water-rich when faced with brown grass or a compromised crop.