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Preserving Habitat – The Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network
Stopping Eurasian Watermilfoil

Preserving Habitat – The Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network

September 18, 2020NatureAdmin Comment
Nature Change appreciates this article and accompanying video submitted by Emily Cook, Outreach Coordinator for the Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network. We hope [...]

Stopping Eurasian Watermilfoil

August 21, 2020NatureAdmin 1
No one knows how it got there, but for several years a dangerous invasive aquatic plant has been infesting the shallows of beautiful [...]

Managing High Water: Part Two – Restoring Natural Lakeshores

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020NatureAdmin Comment
Limnologist Ralph Bednarz moved to his new home on Rennie Lake in Grand Traverse County just a couple of years ago and already [...]

Managing High Water Impacts on Inland Lakes: Part One – Private Well & Septic Systems

May 20, 2020May 27, 2020NatureAdmin Comment
The National Weather Service says we are in one of Michigan’s wettest periods in modern history. We see it in the record breaking [...]

The Secret to Life – Part Two

April 30, 2020NatureAdmin Comment
In this “explainer” video, we’re invited to take a harder look at the earth’s atmosphere and how the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) [...]

Earth Day 2020 – The Unimaginable

April 21, 2020April 23, 2020NatureAdmin Comment
In this essay,  author and environmental policy specialist Dave Dempsey reflects on the challenges humans face  today, fifty years after the first Earth [...]

Tough Times for Great Lakes Beach Walkers

March 18, 2020NatureAdmin 1
The beaches along Michigan’s west coast have all but disappeared under the rising water levels of Lake Michigan. In fact, lake levels haven’t [...]

Assisted Tree Range Expansion

March 10, 2020NatureAdmin Comment
Over the past year,  Forestry Assistant Maddy Baroli has worked with Kama Ross, District Forester for Benzie, Grand Traverse, and Leelanau Counties to [...]

Lake-Friendly Landscapes

March 3, 2020NatureAdmin Comment
For nearly 75-years, volunteers, members and staff of the Glen Lake Association have worked to preserve and protect the high quality of water [...]

The Invisible Secret to Life

January 24, 2020NatureAdmin Comment
In this short “explainer” video, we’re invited to take look at earth’s atmosphere and what Dan Bertalan suggests might just be the secret [...]

Year End Review – 2019

December 31, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
Thank you Nature Change viewers! Thanks for your support, time and attention throughout this very busy year! In 2019, Nature Change stories highlighted [...]

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Beef Production

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
A special report recently release by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that big changes in global land use, agriculture [...]

Michigan Septic Summit – Protecting Fresh Water from Septic System Pollution

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
  PLEASE JOIN US! This fall, Nature Change is joining with FLOW – For Love of Water, League of Women Voters of Leelanau County, [...]

Regulating Dam Safety Under Changing Conditions

September 29, 2019September 29, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
Nature Change has published several stories about removing dams and culverts to return rivers and streams to natural flow conditions. But Michigan still [...]

Open Air Orchid Aficionados

August 28, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
In this new essay by Stephanie Mills, we’re introduced to the Leelanau Conservancy’s Emily Douglas and a couple of dedicated natural resource volunteers [...]

Witness: Dave Dempsey, Great Lakes & Water Policy Expert

August 9, 2019August 10, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
Currently a senior policy specialist for FLOW – For Love of Water, Dave Dempsey has worked in and out of government as an [...]

Healing Habitat in Pigeon River Country

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
In the beautiful Pigeon River country of Northern Michigan, an old farmstead had fallen into disrepair. The land had been overgrazed by cattle [...]

Grass River Weaver

July 23, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers readers another in her series of essays on natural resource experts and their work in Northern Michigan. Here [...]

The Environmental Educator – New Leadership at GTCD

July 18, 2019July 18, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
In this short video, we meet Koffi Kpachavi, the new Executive Director for the Grand Traverse Conservation District (GTCD).  A small farm operator and [...]

Seven Mini-Docs on Climate & the Environment from the Young Documentarians

June 26, 2019June 28, 2019NatureAdmin 1
Are frog populations diminishing? Is the changing climate interfering with bird migration? Do the big storm and changing temperatures have any impacts of [...]

Flushing the Future – The Challenge of Failing Septic Systems

June 19, 2019NatureAdmin 3
What risks do failing-septic systems pose to the health of people and the environment? How do we know if septic wastes are ending [...]

Beetlemania

June 14, 2019June 15, 2019NatureAdmin 1
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers readers another in her series of essays on natural resource experts and their work in Northern Michigan. In [...]

Watching the Forest at Woodland School

June 6, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
When an oak wilt infestation led to clear cutting acres of trees on the forested campus of the Woodland School, teachers Lesley Goodrick-Scanlon [...]

Learning & Working Together

May 3, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
In this short video, we learn how five different organizations and well over 150 volunteers joined forces for habitat restoration on Earth Day [...]

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