{"id":5931,"date":"2026-07-15T08:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:35:31","slug":"a-forbidden-experiment-two-moonshots-and-the-invasive-species-ravaging-the-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5931","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018forbidden experiment,\u2019 two moonshots and the invasive species ravaging the Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nEDITOR\u2019S NOTE:<\/span>\u00a0 Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex\u2019s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action.\n<\/p>

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\n Politicians recently received an old enemy at the Capitol.\n <\/p>\n

\n Half a dozen guests arrived fresh from their journey from the Great Lakes. They flashed their teeth for the cameras and posed alongside policymakers from Florida to California. There were no handshakes, but one did suck on the palm of Representative Bill Huizenga.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt definitely gets your attention,\u201d said the House member from Michigan.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a Congress riven by divides as deep and chilly as the Great Lakes themselves, both sides of the aisle agree:<\/strong> invasive sea lampreys must go.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019ve been in politics in one element or another for my entire life,\u201d said Greg McClinchey, director of policy and legislative affairs at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC). \u201cI have never had an issue that unifies like this.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The June meet and greet was the latest organized by the GLFC to remind policymakers that this threat only remains dormant because of government funding, from both the US and Canada.\n <\/p>\n

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\nA parasitic sea lamprey<\/strong>, native to the Atlantic Ocean but invasive to the Great Lakes, bares its teeth. Scroll through the gallery to see more of the planet’s most problematic invasive species.<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\n
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\n\n In pictures: Invasive species around the world\n <\/span>\n