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Restoring Aquatic Ecosystems in Northwest Lower Michigan
Hope for Michigan’s Most Endangered Flower

Restoring Aquatic Ecosystems in Northwest Lower Michigan

October 4, 2022October 4, 2022NatureAdmin Comment
Nature Change (naturechange.org) is delighted to announce the release of a new documentary film about the restoration and protection of rivers and streams [...]

Hope for Michigan’s Most Endangered Flower

December 15, 2021NatureAdmin 2
In this short documentary film, we join experts and volunteers as they work to save Michigan’s only endemic flower. The Federally-listed endangered species, Michigan [...]

Restoring the Crystal River

November 12, 2021December 1, 2021NatureAdmin 1
This short documentary film is about several big problems that overlap, literally. This film is also about governmental and nonprofit organizations working together [...]

Restoring the Pine River

October 19, 2021NatureAdmin 1
This past summer (2021), the sounds of trucks, bobcats and excavators echoed down from the high bluffs above the Pine River in Northwest [...]

The Fight for Lake Leelanau – Battling Eurasian Watermilfoil

September 16, 2021September 17, 2021NatureAdmin Comment
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

June 3, 2021NatureAdmin 2
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?

March 19, 2021NatureAdmin Comment
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

March 5, 2021NatureAdmin Comment
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

February 9, 2021NatureAdmin Comment
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

January 29, 2021NatureAdmin Comment
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

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 [...]

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