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A Case of the Human Condition: Another Threat to Lake Michigan — Asian Carp

January 26, 2010 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

My Michigan friends are emailing me about the Asian carp threatening to enter Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes from the Illinois canal system. The carp would seriously endanger fish and other wildlife in the Lakes and local rivers.

Read more at www.stopasiancarp.com 

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