The Lake Superior Project

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Image by: Stephan Hoglund 

A series of short features looking at the broad range of issues facing one of the world's largest resources: Lake Superior.

Lake Superior holds 10 percent of the world’s fresh water. It is an undeniably huge resource. The lake means different things to different people, whether it's a source of inspiration or income, or a favorite place to recreate or fish. WTIP North Shore Community Radio brings Lake Superior into focus with The Lake Superior Project, a series of 12 stories airing monthly throughout the year. We’ll take a closer look at the culture and history of the Lake Superior region and investigate issues like the impacts of climate change, invasive species, development, and industry as well as explore how people are coming together to protect and preserve the lake for generations to come. This project is funded in part by the Coastal Zone Management Act, by NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, in cooperation with Minnesota’s Lake Superior Coastal Program. Hide full description

Lake Superior holds 10 percent of the world’s fresh water. It is an undeniably huge resource. The lake means different things to different people, whether it's a source of inspiration or income, or a favorite place to recreate or fish. WTIP North Shore Community Radio brings Lake Superior into focus with The Lake Superior Project, a series of 12 stories airing monthly throughout the year. We’ll take a closer look at the culture and history of the Lake Superior region and investigate issues like the impacts of climate change, invasive species, development, and industry as well as explore how people are coming together to protect and preserve the lake for generations to come. This project is funded in part by the Coastal Zone Management Act, by NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal... Show full description


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Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Stephan Hoglund
Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is a crime that happens everywhere – even in northeastern Minnesota....

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Stephan Hoglund
Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is a crime that happens everywhere – even in northeastern Minnesota....

Bought by KSRQ, KFAI Minneapolis, and WDSE


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Stephan Hoglund
Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is a crime that happens everywhere – even in northeastern Minnesota....

Bought by KSRQ, KFAI Minneapolis, and WDSE


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 11:19
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Stephan Hoglund
Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is a crime that happens everywhere – even in northeastern Minnesota....

Bought by KSRQ, KFAI Minneapolis, and WDSE


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 09:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Stephan Hoglund
Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is a crime that happens everywhere – even in northeastern Minnesota....

Bought by KSRQ, KFAI Minneapolis, and WDSE


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
Coal. Iron ore. Grain. Limestone. Cement. Salt. Wood pulp. Wind turbine components. Steel coil. All of these commodities and more, at one point or ...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Ken Lewis on Flickr
A year ago on the Lake Superior Project, we spoke with several people around the lake—environmental advocates, policy makers, residents, and others...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources via Flickr
Invasive species are arguably one of the biggest—and most expensive—issues facing Lake Superior and the Great Lakes today. In recent years, signifi...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 3
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If you tuned into the last edition of the Lake Superior Project, you heard the story of Rick Schubert. He has a cabin in Hovland, Minnesota, and vo...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 3
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The Flute Reed River is located on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Hovland, Minnesota. Rick Schubert, who owns a cabin in Hovland, takes weekly...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
When we started the Lake Superior Project at the beginning of 2012, one of the most common subjects to come up besides issues facing the lake was f...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: The Lake Superior Project, Credit: Logo by Lauryl Loberg/Photo by CircleFace via Flickr
By now you might have heard of a thing called “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” But if you haven’t, it’s basically a large vortex in the center of...

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  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
The Grand Portage Native Fish Hatchery has been producing and rearing coaster brook trout, a native Lake Superior fish, since 2007. Their populatio...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Audun K on Flickr
At 31,700 square miles, Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by surface area in the world. It’s hard to imagine that ever changing. But on ...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:10
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Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
There are a lot of ways climate change stands to affect Lake Superior. There's the reduction in ice cover, rising lake temperatures, the increase i...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
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Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
There are a lot of ways climate change stands to affect Lake Superior. There's the reduction in ice cover, rising lake temperatures, the increase i...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
There are a lot of ways climate change stands to affect Lake Superior. There's the reduction in ice cover, rising lake temperatures, the increase i...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 3
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This feature is part of The Lake Superior Project, a series looking at a broad range of issues and topics surrounding Lake Superior, produced by WT...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Logo by Laurl Loberg
There are a lot of ways climate change stands to affect Lake Superior. There's the reduction in ice cover, rising lake temperatures, the increase i...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 3