Great Lakes Patrol assigned to operate against criminals who were ravaging the logging industry. These so called timber pirates conducted illegal cutting of timber on federal land and then smuggled the valuable commodity out of the area in order to sell it. The areas most affected were in the western Great Lakes region, along the coasts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. Much of these forested areas controlled by the government were reserved for the building of new warships. The illegal timber trade centered on Chicago and Milwaukee. It was nearly as violent as the alcohol trade, which was carried out over the
Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes at the Constitutional Convention their first bishop, being formally installed at the diocese annual convention in Akron, on April 30, 2011. The extraordinary Synod, held on 3 October 2015, nominated three candidates to the election of the new bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes. The College of the Bishops of the ACNA, reunited in Vero Beach, Florida, on 6 January 2016, elected Ronald Jackson, who was consecrated at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Akron, Ohio, on 28 April 2016. Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes The Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes is a diocese of the