Fresh Water in Flux
Dec 21, 2019
2 minutes
BY KRISTINE LIAO
ECADES AGO THE CAT ISLAND chain in Lake Michigan’s Green Bay was a bird haven. The archipelago sheltered waterfowl-rich wetlands from waves and provided habitat for an array of migratory shorebirds and the greatest diversity of colonial nesting species of any Great Lakes islands. Then, in the 1970s, severe storms coincided with extremely high lake levels, battering the islands into oblivion and driving
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