NOAA keeps the Great Lakes great

NOAA keeps the Great Lakes great

A member of NOAA monitors one of the Great Lakes buoys off the coast of Ludington. [Courtesy photo/Great Lakes Observing System]I’ll never forget the invasion of the zebra mussels. I remember walking on the beach at Lake Huron, not far from our family cottage,  back in the 1990s. My feet were sort of crunching along in the sand, and I thought, “What in the world is this?” We all knew the lake well. My great grandparents had bought the land in th…