Scientists Seek to Understand Impacts of Historic Lack of Great Lakes Ice

Scientists Seek to Understand Impacts of Historic Lack of Great Lakes Ice

Source: usnews

3/7/2024

Scientists Seek to Understand Impacts of Historic Lack of Great Lakes Ice

Credit: AP Photo/Teresa Crawford

Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks.

The ski plane they study the wolves
from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because there's nowhere to touch down on the island. But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice.

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