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

Preparing for Wildfire in Leelanau County

April 25, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
In  this brief video, District Forester Kama Ross pays a visit to the Cedar Area Fire and Rescue Department in Leelanau County for [...]

Witness: Rob Karner, Watershed Biologist, Glen Lakes Watershed

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
A freshwater biologist and educator, Rob Karner has helped to care for the Glen Lake Watershed in Leelanau County since 1977. A retired [...]

Water & The Public Trust

March 28, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
This new video was submitted by FLOW – For Love of Water to help explain how the public trust doctrine applies to water. [...]

Local Governments Combating Invaders

March 22, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
The following article was submitted by Katie Grzesiak, Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network to help inform Nature Change readers about local government efforts [...]

Carbon Capture in Forest Soils

March 7, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
In this short video, forest ecology researcher Dr. Luke Nave (University of Michigan Biological Station) describes recently completed research to quantify the amount [...]

Stopping a Tree Killer – The Race to Control Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

March 1, 2019March 20, 2019NatureAdmin 1
Up and down the west side of Lower Michigan, small armies of natural resource professionals and conservation volunteers are scouring the woods and [...]

New Chestnut Trees for Northern Michigan

February 19, 2019NatureAdmin 4
In this video (click above), we hear about efforts by researchers working on combating tree diseases, including the American Chestnut blight. Researchers at [...]

Keeping the Count – Richard Couse, Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019NatureAdmin 2
In this short video, we meet Richard Couse, the new Executive Director of the Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch (MSRW). An avid birder and [...]

Always a Water Person

January 10, 2019January 11, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
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. [...]

Witness: Eric Hemenway, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
Born and raised in the Cross Village area, Eric Hemenway is the Director of Archives and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands [...]

Viewers’ Choice 2018

December 27, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
Fish and goats, boats and butterflies, rivers and snails are all topics of the most viewed Nature Change stories published in 2018. With [...]

A Conversation with Forest Ecologist Marvin Roberson

December 22, 2018NatureAdmin 1
As the Forest Policy Specialist for the Sierra Club – Michigan Chapter, Marvin Roberson has long advocated for management practices that assure greater [...]

Enhanced Migration of Trees – Climate Adaptation on Tribal Forest Lands

December 13, 2018January 4, 2019NatureAdmin Comment
This fall, Nature Change visited the Little Traverse Bay Bands (LTBB) of Odawa Indians in Harbor Springs. We were there to ask about [...]

Managing Change at the Little Traverse Conservancy

November 29, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
The new Executive Director at the Little Traverse Conservancy (LTC), Kieran Fleming has grown into this position from within the organization. With a [...]

The Wetland Keeper

November 20, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
Recently, Nature Change had the opportunity to meet Jenn Wright, the new Executive Director of the Grass River Natural Area in Bellaire, Michigan. [...]

Conservation Volunteers – Why Do They Do It?

November 16, 2018November 19, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
Recently, the Grand Traverse Conservation District sponsored a workbee to plant trees and shrubs at the newly expanded Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve. [...]

15-Second Nature Note from the Grand Traverse Conservation District

November 6, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
In this quick video, you will learn one very effective way to help improve the environment and combat climate change. Thanks to Parkland [...]

The Changing River – Delta Formation at the Mouth of the Boardman River

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
As shown in a recent Nature Change mini-documentary (Bringing Down Sabin), Sabin is the last of three dams to be removed from the [...]

Stewardship and the Sixth Great Lake

October 11, 2018NatureAdmin 2
In this essay,  author and environmental policy specialist Dave Dempsey reflects on the importance and vulnerability of Michigan’s groundwater . For generations, schoolchildren [...]

Wetland Wild Lands – Protecting a Biodiversity Hotspot

October 3, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
Where can you find dragon’s mouth lady slipper, yellow lady slipper, showy lady slipper, purple fringed orchid, rose pogonia orchid, pitcher plants, sundews [...]

Bringing Down Sabin – Another Step in Restoring the Boardman River

September 15, 2018NatureAdmin 1
Excavator and bulldozer operators are working long hours together with truck drivers and engineering and safety teams to finally bring down the Sabin [...]

A Monarch Killer Comes to Kingsley

August 22, 2018August 27, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
This story begins with monarch butterflies. In their larval stage – as caterpillars – these much beloved, colorful creatures rely on milkweed as [...]

Rivers of Snails

August 16, 2018August 16, 2018NatureAdmin 1
The on-going restoration of Boardman River to its natural, pre-industrial condition has been good news to trout fishermen, kayakers, canoeists and river-lovers of [...]

The Once and Future Northern Forests

July 27, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
In this photo essay, we join author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills on a visit to Houghton to meet Stephen Handler, a Climate Change Specialist based [...]

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