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

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 [...]

Collecting the Evidence of Change

July 20, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
Over the last 30 years, invasive species like zebra and quagga mussels and the round goby have rapidly and completely changed the water [...]

The River Restorer

July 11, 2018July 11, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
From the time of European settlement in the 1800s, Michigan’s rivers have been dammed, channelized, and pinched by road crossings. Often heating up [...]

The Young Documentarians Present: Seven Mini-Docs on Environmental Change

June 27, 2018NatureAdmin 1
Are humans the most invasive species? Is there hope for the piping plover? Why are there so many coyotes in Northern Michigan? Early [...]

Environmental Change & Community Health – Nursing Professionals Speak Out

June 24, 2018NatureAdmin 1
The spring and fall allergy seasons have grown longer and more severe over the last few decades. That’s one of the observations three [...]

Beautiful Biochar

June 8, 2018June 8, 2018NatureAdmin 1
This photo essay re-introduces Nature Change readers to a very old way of enriching our soils while managing the disposal of wood wastes. [...]

Kids’ Work – Conservation Grazing with Baby Goats

May 30, 2018NatureAdmin 2
This spring, Nature Change returned to Leelanau Conservancy‘s Clay Cliffs Preserve to find out how such incredibly cute baby goats could be part [...]

Raptor Rescue & Our Changing Environment

May 9, 2018May 9, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
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 [...]

Grabbing the Thistle

May 3, 2018May 4, 2018NatureAdmin 1
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 [...]

The Fate of the Lower Boardman River

April 12, 2018April 13, 2018NatureAdmin 1
Is the Lower Boardman River being choked with development? Can it handle the stormwater pouring off urban areas throughout the Traverse City Area?  [...]

The Young Documentarians – Investigating the Changes in Our Environment

March 29, 2018April 4, 2018NatureAdmin 1
Recently, eleven of our region’s natural resources experts took turns in the hot seat, responding to questions posed by 8th grade science students [...]

Why It’s Time to Clean, Drain & Dry

March 23, 2018May 9, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
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 [...]

Why Native Plants Are the Better Choice for a Changing World

March 15, 2018NatureAdmin 1
In this article by Emily Cook, we learn why and how plants native to this region are best for landscaping around our buildings [...]

The Fisheries Management Biologist

March 9, 2018March 10, 2018NatureAdmin 1
As dam removals and restoration efforts proceed on the Boardman River, how is the fishery faring? How is Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources [...]

Revealing Connections – Two Years of Nature Change

February 23, 2018NatureAdmin Comment
Northern Michigan’s landscapes are changing as invasive species, urban development and climate change alter, damage or destroy familiar plant and animal communities on [...]

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