The Dynamic Great Lakes

A Critically Acclaimed non-fiction book about the five Great Lakes

The Dynamic Great Lakes is available in the new edition at Barnes & Noble online or in stores. It is also available at Schuler Books and Music, The Bookman, Amazon.com (paper and Kindle edition) and many other fine stores.

Lake Michigan salmon and trout

The river smells of fish and sometimes the small silvery alewives will jump out of the water when they are being pursued by Chinook salmon, coho salmon, brown trout or steelhead. It’s that time.

People have been catching salmon over twenty pounds this year and good size trout. They are being caught in the estuaries and tributaries to Lake Michigan.

Read more about fishing in the Great Lakes in The Dynamic Great Lakes available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Great Lakes Influences

I live on Lake Michigan and I have lived on Lake Huron. I have traveled to Lake Superior, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario where I watched a meteor shower while camping. All this freshwater has led me to write. I wrote a non fiction book, The Dynamic Great Lakes that is critically acclaimed. It shows how each lake has changed and changes. It is especially about what lies under water. These lakes are magnificent.

I have included many Great Lakes inspired poems in my books, The Wilderness Within and Sophia’s Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below

Asian Carp Should Never Get Into the Great Lakes

Here is a scientific team finding Asian Carp DNA near the waters near the Great Lakes. This is an interesting video.

Updated: The Dynamic Great Lakes

The Dynamic Great Lakes, a non-fiction book about changes in the Great Lakes ecosystems, has just been updated and released in a fourth edition. 

 And there is more good news: the price is now $12.95 plus shipping and handling when ordered from the publisher. The book has been critically acclaimed and is under the Independence imprint. It may be ordered from the Publish America bookstore.

Prevent Asian Carp from Entering The Great Lakes

 Legislation in Washington is now being considered by the House and the Senate to close the locks connecting the Chicago shipping canals from Lake Michigan.  Listen to a speech made by Senator Debbie Stabenaw in favor of new legislation.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY-Sy12t3qg.

Grand Haven Pier

Storm Rolling In

 

The pier in Grand Haven, Michigan is a popular spot for walkers and people who like to fish.  As beautiful as Lake Michigan is, it is best to stay off of the pier when waves are washing over it.  Quite a few have been surprised by waves that swept them into the lake.  The currents here are strong and not all who were swept in survived. 

Read more about the Great Lakes in my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes.

Coho and Chinook Salmon in Great Lakes

The first coho salmon caught in Lake Michigan

Here is an excerpt from my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes:

In 1966 a biologist, Dr. Howard Tanner, came up with a creative

solution to the Alewife problem: plant Coho Salmon to feed upon

the pesky little Alewives. Three quarters of a million small Coho

salmon were stocked in the tributaries of Lake Superior and Lake

Michigan where they had never lived before. Coho, or Silver

Salmon, a type of Pacific salmon, grew rapidly in the Great Lakes

with the huge supply of alewives to feed upon. By 1967 people

began catching Coho with rods and reels.

The planted Coho grew so well that the Michigan Department of

Natural Resources planted the largest strain of Pacific salmon in

1967, the Chinook or King Salmon in Lakes Michigan and Huron.

Dr. Howard Tanner and Coho Salmon

Last night I went to a meeting of the Grand Haven Steelheaders and heard a talk by Dr. Howard Tanner, father of the salmon fishery in the Great Lakes.  I picked up this chart of trout and salmon that are being caught and heard about how Dr. Tanner was able to obtain coho eggs from Oregon when they became available.  His idea, to release salmon into the Great Lakes was a great success.  On the West coast, salmon live in the Pacific and then run upstream to spawn.  Some thought these anadromous fish could not live in the freshwater Great Lakes.  This was wrong.  The fish grew big in four of the the Great Lakes to the delight of sports fishers. Since Lake Erie is a warm water fishery, that is the exception.   It was a very interesting talk by a very interesting man who is now 86.

Poetry Month at Schulers Books and Music

Barbara Spring

I will be celebrating Poetry Month at Schulers Books on April 8 at 7 p.m. at their Alpine store in Grand Rapids, MI.

This is an excellent independent bookstore where I will be talking about poetry and especially poetry about the Great Lakes.  I may talk about my non fiction book, The Dynamic Great Lakes.

The titles of my poetry books are: The Wilderness Within and Sophia’s Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below.

Schulers created the poster pictured.