The natural resources on Northwest Lower Michigan are managed and conserved by a wide range of people and organizations. These professionals work with all types of landscapes and resources, specializing in topics such as soil science, entomology, forestry, wildlife management, hydrology, social science, biology and many more.
This category of stories focuses on natural resource professionals and their experiences in the field. We will ask these experienced resource experts to tell us what they’ve seen and experienced. We will also include biographical sketches of conservationists, asking them to reflect on a lifetime of work including their motivations, challenges and successes.
Responding with personal observations, these seasoned experts help answer the question: How are the natural resources of Northwest Lower Michigan changing?
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In this short video, we meet Koffi Kpachavi, the new Executive Director for the Grand Traverse Conservation District (GTCD). A small farm operator and [...]
In this short video, forest ecology researcher Dr. Luke Nave (University of Michigan Biological Station) describes recently completed research to quantify the amount [...]
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers our readers another in her series of essays on natural resource experts and their work in Northern Michigan. [...]
As the Forest Policy Specialist for the Sierra Club – Michigan Chapter, Marvin Roberson has long advocated for management practices that assure greater [...]
The new Executive Director at the Little Traverse Conservancy (LTC), Kieran Fleming has grown into this position from within the organization. With a [...]
Recently, Nature Change had the opportunity to meet Jenn Wright, the new Executive Director of the Grass River Natural Area in Bellaire, Michigan. [...]
From the time of European settlement in the 1800s, Michigan’s rivers have been dammed, channelized, and pinched by road crossings. Often heating up [...]
In this short video, Nature Change contributor, David Poinsett talks with the well-known raptor-rescue specialist, Rebecca Lessard about her activities as director of [...]
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers our readers another in her series of essays on natural resource experts and their work in Northwest Lower [...]
Recently, eleven of our region’s natural resources experts took turns in the hot seat, responding to questions posed by 8th grade science students [...]
The clean, clear beauty of Northern Michigan’s lakes and streams are threatened. Non-native plants and animals invading our waters can change water quality [...]
As dam removals and restoration efforts proceed on the Boardman River, how is the fishery faring? How is Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources [...]
How have our northern Michigan rivers changed? Have the increasingly frequent and severe storms impacted our rivers? What effects have the dead and [...]
What are the challenges resource professionals face today? Why would four of five brothers strive to build careers in preserving natural resources? In [...]