As of March 16, average ice cover across the lakes was roughly 13.5%. Lake Superior was at 9.2%, and Lake Michigan was at 10.7%.

"If you drive along the Ontario shoreline of Lake Erie, you see evidence of receding bluffs, and that's because those bluffs are being battered by winter waves. When we have ice cover, it protects ...

"If you drive along the Ontario shoreline of Lake Erie, you see evidence of receding bluffs, and that's because those bluffs are being battered by winter waves. When we have ice cover, it protects the ...

And far more canvasbacks now occur during winter and migration ... and the big marshes that buffer western Lake Erie thaw, a second wave of fowl, the dabbling ducks, will pour in.

Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.

Minch named it after a 3-million-acre area of land in northeastern Ohio along Lake Erie. Its sinking in 1892 ... able to stand up to the weather and waves, Lynn said. The Western Reserve's sister ...