The Fight for Lake Leelanau – Battling Eurasian Watermilfoil
No one was certain it would work in Northern Michigan two years ago. Everyone knew it would require special knowledge and skill to [...]
Brookie Lessons
In this short video, we visit a little creek or “brook” in southern Leelanau County fed by groundwater springs and flowing toward Lake [...]
Who Protects the Public Trust?
Who Protects the Public Trust is a very short presentation by Professor Richard Norton, Taubman College, University of Michigan. Norton is an expert [...]
Why Shore Armoring Inevitably Fails
In this short film, Professor Guy Meadows (Great Lakes Research Center, Michigan Technological University) describes how high-water levels and waves are changing the [...]
Conserving Natural Resources in Leelanau County
Nature Change appreciates this video and short description submitted by Aime Merizon, Communications Specialist for the Leelanau Conservation District (LCD). We hope you [...]
Plague Phase – voices in response to ecological decline
Nature Change and Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology are very pleased to present this experimental short film, Plague Phase. On the evening [...]
Preserving Habitat – The Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]