Incredible by Any Measure... the Great Lakes

How is The Nature Conservancy working to protect the world's largest freshwater system? By bringing together the best science with innovative conservation action. Learn more about The Nature Conservancy's Great Lakes Project. Visit us online at nature.org/greatlakes

[@rambowcats]

I miss my beloved Great Lakes; I moved away in 1985. So glad to see people taking care of them. The entire area is so magnificent!

[@nochatter7134]

Its interesting that Canada/USA has excess to largest fresh water in the world while Australia non whatsoever...Honestly the Great Lakes are a national treasure that need to be taken care of.

[@Algroh91]

Their British ancestors shouldn’t have been criminals. Now they’re paying the price, just like Stanley was still paying for it after all those years. Just because ole Elya was too damn lazy to go back and carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain.

[@shahzaib4011]

@@Algroh91 What the fuck lol

[@murp61]

@@Algroh91 ???

[@paulmezhir8354]

I live about 200 yards away from Niagara Falls, just above the rim of the Niagara River gorge. Nothing compares to living in a place that enjoys the constant, eternal roar of the cataracts over which the water of these magnificent lakes flows. I consider myself to be so fortunate to be so close to the water that brings and sustains so much life.

[@BadgerCheese94]

I live in the Twin Cities and feel blessed to have mighty Superior just a few hours north. I been to Duluth, Minnesota, Chicago, Illinois, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Mackinaw City, Michigan. So many beautiful cities on lake shores or on the mighty Niagara Falls!

[@CO84trucker]

The Great Lakes are a diamond on the hand of North America, brightly shining jewel on friendship bordering. Freshwater highway coming down from Canada, all along the shorelines you can hear them sing sweet mother Michigan father Superior, coming down from Mackinac and Sault St Marie, bluewater Huron, flows down to Lake Erie falls to Ontario and runs on out to sea!

[@timwright6401]

I have the extreme good fortune to live on the north shore of Lake Superior and am endlessly awed, amazed and grateful for the endless wonders of this treasure. I will do all I can to protect it for all and for eternity.

[@u.p.woodtick3296]

Hello from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Manistique

[@antknee5556]

I miss living by lake Erie. I grew up swimmimg and fishing there and I've always felt a spiritual connection to the Great Lakes. Watching lakers sail in to what was then a very busy Cleveland with coal and iron ore for the steele mills. Trying to explain the lakes to people our here in California...they just dont get it and really, until you've actually seen them you cant understand how awesome and BIG they are.

[@zuffin1864]

they really are a treasure like they say here, and were very alluring when i visited. I didn't want to leave the fishing town me and my family stayed a night at! It was such a beautiful time. I don't know what the winter holds though omg, probably miserable how cold it gets.

[@markkubiak8296]

I lived very close to Erie in the early 60's. It was Cleveland. Baltic Avenue. Great place. Edgewater Park. I feel the same. The lakes got into my blood!

[@ssphoto66]

This documentary is so polite to those who have nearly ruined the Lakes. When I see derelict mining operations, continued pollution and more, this folks need to be held accountable and clean up their mess.

[@wahswolf88]

Oh so much love this. Have had time on the Great Lakes and, wow you never will forget a long traverse on these beauties. However, the same Ice Age that created these gems also created many inland lakes, tiny and large. These little guys are my favorites.

[@kattoneycliffe6715]

What amazingly fascinating rock formations in this video!!❤

[@explodingtoiletproductions9819]

We agree with the video SAVE THE LAKES

[@rilluma]

+ExplodingToiletProductions maybe the oil-pipe under the cross section of them is need of repair. its gonna destroy your lake in 5 years. its emminent if you don do anything. greetz from finland

[@explodingtoiletproductions9819]

+rilluma Yes our beautiful lakes will no longer be beautiful when it happens. Money and the greed of man is gonna let it happen. I fear the whole planet is doomed to suffer the wrath of mankind's insatiable appetite for Money which is just a false idol created by man.

[@camdietzel5187]

ExplodingToiletProductions let’s get it boii Michigan boy forever

[@hughhaefner5486]

The great lakes are immense and incredible. Asian carp are now the biggest threat. They are at the very edge of these spectacular lakes.

[@CarmieSchulz]

Does anybody love Lake Huron like me? I don't know why but it's like my spiritual home.

[@wishinifishin5172]

yes, I do. live just feet from the lake

[@CarmieSchulz]

wishinifishin517 That's cool. It's like the ignored lake for some reason but I like it the best.

[@wishinifishin5172]

+Dan Michaels well, I will say that superior and Michigan are prettier but I like this side of the state. more forest....less snobs

[@wishinifishin5172]

+Dan Michaels well, I will say that superior and Michigan are prettier but I like this side of the state. more forest....less snobs

[@wishinifishin5172]

+Dan Michaels well, I will say that superior and Michigan are prettier but I like this side of the state. more forest....less snobs

[@gocinjo69]

i like great lakes and i would like to live and work there.......

[@gt5228z]

gocinjo69 try holland, grand haven Or traverse city mi.

[@BarbaraSpringmystuff]

The Nature Conservancy does important work. I have written a non-fiction book, The Dynamic Great Lakes that ecourages people to learn about these freshwater seas and then to do what they can to preserve them.

[@goodday5570]

I would like to fly over all that 300 years ago

[@barbou2you]

If I were in high school today, I would definitely consider this path to living in the future! MY goal now is to leave a very small if any footprint with the knowledge I have acquired in my life. I suddenly realize there is something to be said about tomorrow! It can be exciting for those who are willing to “imagineer”! All you old people step aside and don’t keep them down with your old outdated beliefs! Lift them up. Help them soar because just as your were pioneers before them, they come before you now!

[@sallyklitzke]

Lovely! And I agree with you! But I would also say that the problem isn't as much the individual but more like who's in charge. Teaching our nation's youth to be respectful of mother nature cannot be taught through a forceful & hypocritical government; that is, conservation education would fare so much better being taught in the home. We've seen that public education at the Federal level doesn't work. Just for starters, citizens old and young alike are losing (or have lost) their moral & civic virtues. "Unless we rectify this failure by placing a higher priority on educating young Americans for lives of moral and civic virtue, the nation will move away from liberty and toward despotism-and this movement will be both inevitable and astonishingly quick, perhaps within the space of a generation." - William Damon, Hoover Institution, 2011 Btw, I have no problem with the Nature Conservancy, but that also depends on how much they depend on government, for their own survival. Call me an attentive cynic, I'm good with that!

[@Ronnie.V.89]

Fix/update the pipeline running through the great lakes, that would be a great start

[@Lukie2131]

The Great Lakes are a lot better than Oceans!

[@bk9852]

They are in danger again

[@SouthShoreSonics]

I live 1/2 mile south of Lake Huron on the south shore!

[@uvhciM]

No, Roy, it's not "like living in the North Pole", but a four seasons region with actual variety. On top of that, winter is fantastic here, and only miserable to clueless noobs who don't know how to dress for it!

[@bbose3723]

The winter is far from fantastic here. It causes hell with the roads! Are you out of your mind?

[@wishinifishin5172]

agree. winter is awesome here in the north

[@jimogrady1131]

i dont think you guys no about buffalo,ny we get 200inches a year, 2 years ago 8 feet fell in 2 days, remember we were called snow capital of the country after 1977 blizzard. this city is ready for snow but some how they screw up with roads. its crazy how much snow we get

[@buckfan1969]

I lived in Duluth 40 years ago. I remember people saying that they'd had a beautiful summer the year before, but they had to work that weekend....;)

[@KeshiaFowler]

There’s no thing of 4 season in Ohio it goes from one Crazy temperature one min then two mins to the next crazy.

[@JR-playlists]

Work to eliminate the ongoing threat of an oil spill due to pipelines in and nearby the lakes

[@bobbysmith3828]

Anyone know where 3:34 is? Looks great.

[@AidanByrne2408]

It's a state land mark that means you can't take the water because it's the property of Michigan

[@coldspring624]

great shot of the invasive carp.......

[@gt5228z]

They're part of the lakes now...

[@denniscrane9753]

You will be glad to know that 50%+ of the salmon are naturally reproducing in Lake Michigan alone! Better watershed conditions would increase that amount to nearly 80%! But they have come a long way since the 80’s!

[@jasoningram4617]

😇 *I💙 THE GREAT LAKES AREA* 😇 Revelation 22:1 - And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

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[@jacobtruax3504]

I like lake ontario

[@rockroll9761]

Just show us the rock please. I'll decide its age. Thank you very much. Thank you for the video

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[@MiBones]

Talk to Chicago about the carp they allow in from the Mississippi and Sarnia about the chemical pollution they dump into the St. Clair river.

[@beesnort4944]

How sad that we are ruining such an amazing thing. ☹️

[@willgaukler8979]

Bee Snort ...my worry are the Asian Carp....in 2020 ...

[@beesnort4944]

Bob Anderson absolutely! Humans are the most destructive thing to this planet.

[@anthonys7534]

I live here, no one is ruining anything here. Trust me mother nature’s got this!

[@ariesfire13]

I live in lower northern michigan, nobody's destroying our waters. We residents care about our land. We clean and maintain like we always have. We will keep her beautiful for a very long time to come. Stay blessed

[@ronaldlabelle7274]

back in 75 I went swimming in Lake Ontario from the st Catharines area . there was hundreds dead fish along the beach. I grew up in sudbury in the 60s and 70s the mountains was all blk rock no trees .now the mountains are green and I don't think there's 100s dead fish on the beaches of Ontario

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[@travulsa]

Dang, my city’s polluting 3 lakes at the same time with a stupid power plant.

[@keepingitreel...8037]

Only because people want power. . .

[@Auvoelias]

Are sharks in great lakes?

[@soybasedjeremy3653]

No, they aren't close to the Atlantic, although the lakes empty out to the ocean. That's a thousand or hundred so miles. So if any Bull Shark tried to come in it would die before getting into Lake Ontario, especially their fresh water bladder only has a limit of time before it needs to go back to it's salt water bladder. All you have to worry about is drowning.

[@elonwanders7167]

Wow😬yes the "SHARKS"are big business💨💀

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@motogee3796]

4:08 - Heisenberg : "stay out of my territory"

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[@rilluma]

baikal lake holds more volumetically amount of water

[@95bochamp]

Spoken like a true Russian.....

[@phylwilton1966]

Lake Baikal is the closest equivalent that Europe can compare to Lake Superior. They do share some characteristics.

[@ssssaa2]

Barely. It's considerably smaller by area, and economically of little value in comparison. If you want the greatest volume of fresh water though, the african great lakes contain more than either baikal or NA great lakes, though all 3 contain comparableish amounts. Most of the worlds surface fresh water is in one of these 3 lake areas.

[@realscience948]

Wrong!.....Glaciers did not carve the lakes!

[@bendover3838]

Doh!

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@uvhciM]

Screw that. People from crappy and barely habitable dustbowl/desert States should move to the beautiful Great Lakes if they want to be near water.

[@xftxxx6041]

110

[@jamesgross6466]

XFTX XX no, 420 !

[@Katabatic44]

No

[@russellesimonetta3835]

We can,t eat fish from lake michigan!! Lead levels to high!!! It looks like it,s in the drinking water all over the country.

[@russellesimonetta3835]

@@beesnort4944 I was raised around Lasalle Peru Ill.

[@russellesimonetta3835]

@@beesnort4944 oh o.k. so,,,, it's o.k. to eat fish from the great lake,, in spite of guidelines from the authorities. It's just common NON sence right! It's a free country,, you are free to do what you like.

[@russellesimonetta3835]

@@beesnort4944 what the fuck are you talking about!!! I boated on the Ill river and lake michigan every summer for fucking decades!! You accuse me of trolling!!! I was just stateing a fucking fact you pig!

[@russellesimonetta3835]

@@beesnort4944 per the environnental protection agency ,,, smaller fish once a month larger fish 6 ×s a year. The problem is PCB'S and maybe lead. Hey knock yourself out. When I was young taverns had smelt fry's every Friday night and I regularly still eat walleye every Friday night FOR DECADES!!!! You are kind of strange,, I don't know why I even bother interacting with you. How old are you???

[@russellesimonetta3835]

@@beesnort4944 oh go pound your goofy with your maga hat on. FOOL!!

[@loraleitourtillottwiehr2473]

Really disappointed in the colonial perspective of this video. Do better Nature Conservancy.

[@veramann]

It's like living in the North Pole over there--freezing cold.

[@phylwilton1966]

Sometimes. And very clean. And very beautiful. And very worth preserving.

[@KeshiaFowler]

Roy Long nop

[@jamesgross6466]

Roy Long yes, we sometimes experience bitter cold, artic temperatures, but also some mild winters. We have wonderfully warm summers and more coastline than most any other state. Nothing can beat the splendor of spring in Michigan, except the magnificance of fall colors. We love our four seasons here in Michigan and the beauty and bounty they provide. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Likewise, if you can't take the cold, stay out of the mitten! If you really get to know Michiganders, you'll find them to be a very warm and friendly people that truly love their state and the four season activities that it provides.

[@emerald9578]

@@jamesgross6466 wisconsin too.

[@calvin_launches]

@@jamesgross6466 water is a precious resource.

[@veramann]

We need a big aquaduck to take some of the of water and move it to other states.

[@epistte]

Not NO but HELL NO.

[@95bochamp]

Simple. Just open the flood gates in Chicago and the water would eventually get into the Mississippi. Of course, Canada may object somewhat. After all, half of the water is theirs....

[@zainabe9503]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is aquaduck?

[@epistte]

It's a big freshwater fish with wings. BTW. They can't spell aqueduct.

[@zainabe9503]

For a moment I thought you were serious!