Washington, D.C. will be focusing on the Great Lakes this week. That’s as experts from the University of Michigan will testify to the importance of the lakes.
The experts include environment professor Mike Shriberg, who will talk about how environmental issues like what happens when the lakes fail to reach a normal winter freeze and how that affects the economy and shoreline.
“But beyond the sort of recreational impacts, that ice actually provides habitat for our fisheries and the ice essentially caps the lakes in the winter and it stops shoreline erosion,” Schriberg said.
Shriberg says funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure has also traditionally enjoyed widespread support, and beyond that, also has a big impact also on tourism and recreation in Michigan.
