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The Lake Erie watersnake is found only on 15 islands in the Western end of Lake Erie and the Marblehead Peninsula of Ottawa County, Ohio. In Canadian waters, the subspecies is found on East Sister Island, Pelee Island, Middle Island, and Hen Island. In Ohio waters, it is found on 11 islands, including Kelley's Island and South Bass Island.
Lake Erie (/ ˈ ɪr i / EER-ee) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. [ 6 ] [ 10 ] It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and also has the shortest average water residence time .
The Lake Erie watersnake, which occurs mainly on the lake's western islands offshore from Ohio and Ontario, recovered to the point where on August 16, 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed it from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. The subspecies was first listed as threatened in 1999 after a decline due to ...
Lake Erie: Michigan–New York–Ohio–Ontario–Pennsylvania: 9,910 sq mi 25,667 km 2: natural [3] 5 Lake Ontario: New York–Ontario: 7,340 sq mi 19,011 km 2: natural [3] 6 Lake of the Woods: Manitoba–Minnesota–Ontario: 1,679 sq mi 4,349 km 2: natural 7 Iliamna Lake: Alaska: 1,014 sq mi 2,626 km 2: natural 8 Great Salt Lake: Utah: 950 sq ...
The previously mentioned antarctic blue whale holds the title of the biggest animal on earth. It can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and reach a length of 98 feet. The giant’s heart is the size of a car.
On July 28, Colton Alex of Erie caught a 10.4 pound Atlantic salmon that is believed to have been stocked hundreds of miles away in Lake Huron. On Aug. 4, people believe they saw an alligator ...
Colton Alex, 18, of Erie, was fishing in a tournament in Lake Erie when he hooked into a large Atlantic Salmon. This type of salmon is rarely found in Lake Erie, especially larger ones.
Middle Island, also part of Point Pelee National Park, was acquired in 2000 and is just north of the Canada–United States border in Lake Erie. [3] Point Pelee is the southernmost point of mainland Canada, [3] and is located on a foundation of glacial sand, silt and gravel that bites into Lake Erie. This spit of land is slightly more than ...