And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.
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Jessica Garrison,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
For any shipping hub to flourish in the early days of Great Lakes maritime trade, lighthouses were needed to warn mariners of shoals, and welcome boats to critical harbors which still dot the lakes.
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