Stewardship and the Sixth Great Lake
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
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
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
This story begins with monarch butterflies. In their larval stage – as caterpillars – these much beloved, colorful creatures rely on milkweed as [...]
Rivers of Snails
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Northern Michigan’s landscapes are changing as invasive species, urban development and climate change alter, damage or destroy familiar plant and animal communities on [...]
The River Guide
How have our northern Michigan rivers changed? Have the increasingly frequent and severe storms impacted our rivers? What effects have the dead and [...]
Are You a Shore Walker? Sharing Our Water Resources – Sharing Our Shorelines
Who controls the Great Lakes shorelines and their tributary rivers? How much access do you have? This essay by Dave Dempsey offers some [...]
Nature Change TV: Alewife, Chinook, Quagga, Goby – Waves of Change in Lake Michigan
In this video, the Executive Director for Interlochen Public Radio (IPR), Peter Payette leads an informative discussion on the status and possible future [...]
Investing in Solar – Personal Choices with Public Benefits
“First and foremost,” Jim and Kelly Lively tell us, “going solar is a personal family decision.” This video essay reveals some of their [...]