I came across this video tonight, finding out that it is now almost 4 yrs old I don’t know if anyone still follows the comments on it or not ? But as a lifelong Michigan resident all my life and a lover of all the Great Lakes offer to all of us I just wanted to say thank you to the two young ladies that did the walk. The lakes are my favorite part of living here ❤️
@Bob-te3le
7 ай бұрын
The Great Lakes are magical to see up close in real life. They're an Inland Sea.
@zacnutter7759
3 жыл бұрын
I went to Lake Michigan last weekend on a solo trip. I was in ah oh how beautiful and powerful this body of water was. Talking to some locals at a bar that night they talked a lot about the future of the lakes. When I got home I youtubed "Great Lake Docs." now i'm here. GREAT video! learned so much thanks for sharing!!!
@citizenshane8932
Жыл бұрын
What an incredible video. Wonderful job. You have made we Great Lake kids proud. I’ve spent all my life bouncing back and forth between Toronto and Chicago never more than a 10 minute walk from Lake Ontario and Lake Michigan (which I needn’t walk only 80 feet to see and hear 4 blocks from home). As a Plaines Cree Aboriginal First Nation Indian I was always taught to respect and preserve nature. I don’t know what I would do without these inland seas I walk to every single day year round. They are my places of peace that sooth my wounded heart and soul. I’ve been in them all, from Manitoulin Island to Duluth, Point Pelee to Buffalo, Hamilton to Kingston. I love them all and the wildlife they sustain the elusive massasauga rattlesnakes that reside within a 50 mile radius of their shores and have seen with my own eyes in Cape Croker and Tobermory as well as Muskoka country. I respect the power of these vast bodies of water that have nearly claimed my life numerous times including a sailing misadventure in summer 2006 that left me dangling two miles from shore for 45 minutes in water so choppy I didn’t even know which way land was and I was so exhausted and hypothermic I nearly gave up when a yacht spotted me and plucked me out of the continent’s most dangerous lake the ‘M’ in H.O.M.E.S is that kept me no more than knee deep until last summer. I have a great deal of respect for them and I have to walk along the lakefront every day to give me clarity. I can read the lake like a book, I know how easy they can kill me and how essential they are to my existenceI they are to my existence. Like with anything we see every day, I use to take them for granted. Today I take nothing for granted, these lakes are the Great Lakes are no exception. I grew up splashing in these waters from Kew Beach to Oak Street Beach, Sunnyside Beach to Lee Street Beach to the Indiana Sand Dunes to the bigger ones in Michigan up to Wikwemikong First Nations and a hundred different other points of interests in between throughout my life. I voluntarily pick up the litter and debris after a storm unless the timber the force of these beasts washes ashore is too heavy. It’s frustrating to see the lack of regard people have for the environment after the things I pick up. I know better than to think man can contend with nature. Mother Earth win every time and nature will thrive long after we’re no longer extant. I’m about to walk out the door right now with my dog to stroll along the sandy western shores of Lake Michigan. The Great Lakes are so crucial to my wellness. I Love Them!
@shannoncavanaugh3678
3 жыл бұрын
such an important topic!!! water is essential for all life, and being a part of the greatest system of freshwater in the world- we need to take care of what we have!
@deanregamey9261
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing I’m glad there’s people like you in the world that care
@frankmiller668
3 жыл бұрын
Well Done! Ladies, Frank here at the Niagara River. I enjoy all of the water ways around L Ont. and Georgian Bay. Boater/ Sun sets Thank you for your time
@ronaldwprovo5530
3 жыл бұрын
I live 1/4 mile from Lake Huron on 23 in Cheboygan MI thank you .
@gins8781
3 жыл бұрын
This is a compelling documentary full of valuable information.
@jarretdietzler7750
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you guys SO MUCH for making this!
@aerialadventure7907
3 жыл бұрын
These ladies are an inspiration. They are raising awareness, which is the only way to make the needed changes. Cheers to them!
@lindaquartaro8765
4 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent documentary. Well worth watching. It is an excellent reminder we should not lose any of the progress we made in cleaning up the great lakes.
@cindiweeden7675
3 жыл бұрын
Outstanding action and results. Thanks Ladies!!
@delisawhite1535
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my! How did I not know that Water Walk was taking place?? So incredible! Thank you for your efforts!
@markfancher5676
11 ай бұрын
These two ladies are impressive keep up the good work
@michellereed5638
2 жыл бұрын
I remember stories that my great Uncles and my grand parents would tell me about the Great Lakes; in school I was so excited when we saw films about them too. I live in Oregon. My grandparents made sure to have my parents take lakes in our area for recreation and for education. Sadly, because of environmental disasters both of those lakes have now gone dry! One was manmade, the other was from forest fire that was caused by a teenagers fireworks, also manmade! Now to see this documentary on what is happening to the Great Lakes is just astounding to me. Thank you for this documentary. Thank you for the hard work. IT is inspiring. Oregon has many other wonderful lakes, including Crater Lake, and many lakes up on Mt Hood and coastal lakes. I sure hope our State plans to care for these precious places. I vote for funds to take care of our parks and recreational areas that include these precious water sources. Even though I am now disabled and cannot go to those places myself, I still believe in paying taxes and supporting the work to preserve these places!! It is important that we vote in candidates for public offices that will form policies and legislation to protect our environment. Dismantling programs that protect our water, air and land allows for continued poisoning of our planet leading to further loss and destruction of natural resources and loss of the beauty of what God has given us to enjoy.
@Mkotelnicki516
4 жыл бұрын
Proud of ya'll for sharing this outstanding Great Lakes Story with us! Your dedication to collecting the facts from experts, stakeholders, and folks across the community gives me hope, too. We owe it to our Great Lakes, we owe it to our families across the region and beyond. From one Sconnie to another, thank you and cheers!
@robinblitz5213
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you ladies for the fantastic video it opened my eyes to how important the great lakes are
@tarekbendjenni7037
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you God people like this exist
@ted1091
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you. I've been fascinated by the Lakes for decades, even though I'm from NYC. I remember how polluted they were in the 1960s, when we visited them as children. Your work will continue to make them improve. Thank you for doing the walk to raise consciousness. You should be very proud. You've changed many minds.
@FTW523.
11 ай бұрын
Im watching this in the 🇬🇧 uk very interesting stuff
@tyheang1839
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks you very much 💯🇰🇭🇺🇸
@aman4189
2 жыл бұрын
Great documentary
@susanbaumgartner9171
4 жыл бұрын
A great review of our past with enough scaffolding to get the viewer to see the opportunities and obstacles that lie ahead of us at this moment on our collective trail of humanity and to think about what path we'll take.
@charlessnider883
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Keep up the great work. Awareness is so important. The walk and story of the lakes is very inspirational. I don't think we can do enough to protect our lakes. Keep up the good fight. We need and trust people such as yourselves will show us the way to a better future for our lakes
@HM-vr4uc
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic film/documentary. Well done. Thank you.
@falconer7166
Жыл бұрын
This is a very eye opening documentary. I live south of Buffalo on Lake Erie. I LOVE this lake and regularly can be found on my surfski exploring it. My question is, how can someone like me help protect the waters he loves so much? How can the average person help this dire situation? Thank you for sharing your journey, time, and knowledge.
@HS-lo8ex
6 ай бұрын
Raise awareness, educate others, educate yourself about elected officials, and participate in environmental clean-up and other volunteer opportunities when you can.
@DeanRomanoOutdoorWildTV
4 жыл бұрын
Great Documentary
@pwabloionanimations6708
3 жыл бұрын
THank you for this vid, you deserve alot more subs
@JustinWheelerReal
4 жыл бұрын
Hey BJ and Mike! You and your team made a great doc. Just finished it, it flows well. The shots are beautiful, the info is important and laid out clearly. Love it
@Chazd1949
3 жыл бұрын
Great video gals. Keep up the good work. Some of my ancestors go back to the 1880s and sailed the Great Lakes for more than a century. Though born in Michigan, I have lived in the South for most of my life, but enjoy every opportunity to return to visit. I earned several degrees in science and engineering and spent almost my entire 50-year career in water protection from operation of pollution control facilities to engineering and design of state-of-the-art processes. I would caution everyone, however, that simply throwing state and federal money into programs will not necessarily solve the problems we face. I have seen government money WASTED by the barrel full on superfluous embellishments that contribute nothing to improvement of water quality, but only served to bolster the prestige of some bureaucrat or pad a department with do-nothing, know-nothing bean counters. I've had the often frustrating experience of dealing with EPA staff who didn't know squat about their own job and cost my company's clients tens of thousands of dollars and delayed their project for months and even years resulting in MORE pollution instead of less. Talent and dedication to the cause are more valuable than a large budget and staff. Quality - not quantity. The government needs to learn how to run "a tight ship".
@ryanryz64
4 жыл бұрын
Great job on this! Thank you!
@louoliveri4121
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic journey that the two of you took . I hope that the government supports you and the purpose that you stood for . Congratulations
@SylkaChan
2 жыл бұрын
Just imagine looking at the ocean, except it isn't even an ocean at all.
@lazorirttehc_20s
2 жыл бұрын
This is really very inspiring and a big congratulations to two ✌️ great ladies, I am watching from the Himalayas small state called Siikim in India, Asia. My state has 521 lakes and this documentary really inspired me to go on research. Since I am at my last year doing Masters in science geography so ya thank you so so much for inspiration
@stanekbarb6238
4 жыл бұрын
LOVE THIS! How do you get nominated for an Oscar? Will pass on the documentary access as soon as I figure out how to! Thanks for doing this!
@Michigander269
2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure I ran into you guys hiking thru the porkies at the lake of the clouds lol. Great video btw!
@susanwilcox2165
Ай бұрын
Thank you
@monicatemperly6247
4 жыл бұрын
Great work!
@andyrayniak7990
3 жыл бұрын
Great work my brother! Beautifully put together.
@MikeDeterman
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@RHJ3
2 жыл бұрын
Great Documentary. All the progress to restore the Great Lakes and Resolution 2014 destroys the shoe-line for greed and shipping. Tough to watch it get washed away. 2019 was brutal on the shore of Lake Ontario where I have property,. I watched the pristine eco system get flooded out. Everyone suffered especially the animals and the land. It is an absolute shame what greed had done to this country and the world at large, a crying shame. Keep up the good work.
@dan1elhalas
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@eileenmcloughlin4778
3 жыл бұрын
Good video, Now to protect it further STOP ONTARIO FROM PUTTING A RADIOACTIVE DUMP RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF LAKE HURON! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU ARE DOING!
@Jessicascleaningtips
2 жыл бұрын
America's jewel 💎
@careykuhlmey2429
4 жыл бұрын
Love the use of Tom Lehrer song from THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS! FROM THE 60's I think.
@MrSims-ky2ne
2 жыл бұрын
Sand wars is a great documentary as well, way more threats to fresh water than anyone want to admit.
@mitchcumstein9808
2 жыл бұрын
So much virtue, I can barely contain
@TheWendylupea
Жыл бұрын
Uuuggghh I read the book and am obsessed with this story having grown up around the dunes area of Indiana. But no captions? I'm hearing impaired and am an advocate left out! 😭 Please do captions. 😭😭
@jamesoconnor3562
3 жыл бұрын
Ask someone from California how important it is.
@tomcat7843
3 жыл бұрын
Protect this resource from California
@michaelkell2061
2 жыл бұрын
An otter was spotted in the Detroit river yesterday for the first time in 100 years.. I really hope the water truly is becoming clearer for everyone's sake..
@frankmiller668
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Ladies, if you like to sometime in the future visit with me on the Niagara River I'll take you on a tour by water and land to see the sad things I've seen in my years on the water. I'm am 66yrs old now. I remember when L Erie was dead in the early 60's and how sad that was. I know the inland waters of Orillia , ( N of Toronto ) Lake Simcoe to Parry Sound across to Dorset near Algonquin Park Ontario Canada. I've watch this region improve greatly and I'll have hope it will get better. I did work in the Steel Mills of Hamilton Ont. and know of the horrible dumping over the years. My father would also tell me about what witness as well. Keep in touch Frank
@eileenmcloughlin4778
3 жыл бұрын
St. LAWRENCE SEAWAY SHOULD BE CLOSED and cargo transfer sites by only Great Lakes ships that NEVER pass out of the Great Lakes. Then we can stop anymore invasive species entering our Great Lakes. I live here in Michigan and have seen the changes. LIMIT industries near the shores of our lakes. STOP ALL Fire retardants from being used by airports, fire stations and military locations.
@markfancher5676
11 ай бұрын
That was an excellent comments ship water out to Arizona
@markfancher5676
11 ай бұрын
There's no way you could shut down the St Louis
@netflixlord5870
2 жыл бұрын
Man I remember when that algae thing happened on Lake Erie. The water bottles in the stores disappeared in a day. People were hording food to for some reason.
@netflixlord5870
2 жыл бұрын
What sucks about the algae is that we can't swim in the summer because they pop up everywhere
@pillarwatch
2 жыл бұрын
95000 sq miles isn't larger than Texas, not even close. It's close to the size of Wyoming though which is 97k.
@ted1091
2 жыл бұрын
Could you maybe involve the people of Flynt? I realize they're probably closer to Huron, but nevertheless.
@Bob-te3le
7 ай бұрын
Could you maybe spell Flint right. 😂
@ted1091
7 ай бұрын
@@Bob-te3le more concerned about spelling than toxic water Bob?
@ohdeer69
2 жыл бұрын
you have no Idea... Growing up on a lake in Michigan one early winter just as the lake had frozen over i was walking on the ice. It was a crystal clear as I walk plumes of brown water streamed into the lake, the same lake we swam fished even watered the grass. if you haven't already guessed yes well after scores of decades of this, they closed the lake unfit for swimming and fishing. human waste. We all live downstream ... years later i mover from Waterford to Fenton (mi) another lake the same reason that lake was closed. I have Failed my children, grandchildren friends and neighbors. If I had this fire as a student i would have done the right thing. if only I had known
@eileenmcloughlin4778
3 жыл бұрын
Go to cleaner sawdust composting commodes and NOT water filled poisonous septic tanks that are dumped into rivers and lakes after treating with who knows what.
@eileenmcloughlin4778
3 жыл бұрын
Ban and close nuclear power plants as they are allowed to release air and water radioactive discharges into the atmosphere and into the Great Lakes of our/my Michigan state. I love my state and industry and thoughtless organizations are killing our lakes. Hold them accountable and make them pay for their crimes.
@5ofNov
2 жыл бұрын
What have you heard about corporations taking massive amounts of water from The Great Lakes to be used for bottled water and they do nothing to improve the water levels, like contribute funds to create watersheds to trap water for water restoration?
@eileenmcloughlin4778
3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget about the toxic barrels that were dumped into lake Superior by the CCC near Duluth Minnesota. They still should be removed. The oil supply line 5 should be shut down.
@alansarrol4803
3 жыл бұрын
@pancake2662
Жыл бұрын
Romney's right it's about issues.
@eileenmcloughlin4778
3 жыл бұрын
Mandatory organic farming practices near the Great Lakes.
@TheRoadfarmer
3 жыл бұрын
Agriculture has gone to great lengths to control water run off. Cities along the lakes continue to dump massive amounts of sewage and storm water into the lakes. Agriculture isn't the problem
@MikeYurbasovich
2 жыл бұрын
Mandatory eviction for rich white liberals on lake mendota and Monona with their mansions and old money, who've destroyed nature for all and have been in control all along, making the rules.
@nataliehelferty1438
10 ай бұрын
Government Staff need to work with and for God as Christ the Creator to clean up and restore and create the Earth. I am Queen of Canada and Royal Chieftain of Indians of America Natalie Helferty from the Virgin Mary and the Rouge and Humber Indian Chiefs Toronto Tribe Royalty of Canada. As Government Staff as an Ecologist I would ask God to work with Me to Create. That worked! God cleaned up and created the Watersheds and Great Lakes with Me. I told other Royalty of Canada as Knights of Canada to work with and for God. They were government staff I worked with. The MOE and MNR and Environment Canada Staff all work with and for God. The Constitution Act of Canada is under the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law. All God's Acts that have Royal Assent through Me as Her Majesty In Right Of Canada are to protect nature. I have talked to Government Staff of Canada and Ontario to get them on board. The Opponents are Evil Spirits of Mussolini and Elizabeth II and the Ones that worked for them.
@zaphodb9213
2 жыл бұрын
35:50 - Now it's an apartment complex.
@BlastFromYesterday
Жыл бұрын
1:43:10 "That same decision, protecting the next generation, is a lot cheaper than not." Yes! Do something now so we don't have to scramble to find even more money that we would originally have needed to fix a problem that could have been avoided!
@mrmustangman
2 жыл бұрын
52:42 fish swims to camera and says 'help me'......
@scrapiron
2 жыл бұрын
0pp
@spreaknessi
5 ай бұрын
the calls for shipping water away to far away places is the greatest threat to the great lakes
@jayizzett
Жыл бұрын
Lakes do not curve. Not a planet
@doughalversen7913
2 жыл бұрын
I've found my tribe, the little things that I do matter's.everything matter's when it comes to this problem.The great lakes or just like a baby person with organ we half to protect, from head to toe it's got to be looked after,or the baby will get sick and die,the baby right now has a cold and I'm going to be damned if someone is going to take me off this project, I've found my tribe Rayny Day Production,by someone who cares about my community
@rogerarrysheldon8394
Жыл бұрын
Drascombe Lugger ??!!??!!!???
@jamesherald3243
2 жыл бұрын
So much missing and ineffective message. Very poorly done film.
@markfancher5676
11 ай бұрын
Politics should have nothing to do with this this is a natural wonder that needs to be protected
@markfancher5676
11 ай бұрын
Hey let's not make this a Republican or Democrat thing this is a natural wonder that should be protected
@markfancher5676
11 ай бұрын
The Great lakes should be one of the major Great lakes should be federally
@markfancher5676
11 ай бұрын
To disturb this natural spectacle is a big mistake
@markfancher5676
11 ай бұрын
Yeah there you go these Waters don't belong to anybody they love to tonight federally protect these waterways is a big mistake
@rickyboy1947
Жыл бұрын
hope somebody picked up the trash that these activists left behind
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