Slow, Scarce and Sacred
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers our readers the fifth in her series of essays on natural resource experts and their work in Northwest [...]
Climate Change Bites – Apple Farmers Face New Risks
Apples! One of Michigan’s largest and most valuable crops, there are over 11 million apple trees in commercial production helping to support 825 [...]
Controlling the Spread of Aquatic Invaders
All summer long and into the fall, Jane Perrino and two dozen volunteers have been setting up a portable boat washer and an information [...]
Nature Change TV – Episode One: Fighting Invasive Plants
In this made for TV, 28-minute video, we learn about three separate efforts to battle three highly-destructive invasive plants: Garlic Mustard, Japanese Knotweed and [...]
An Eye in the Sky Watching for Change
Little Traverse Conservancy (LTC) holds over 350 conservation easements in Northwest Lower Michigan. In most cases, the land owner has donated development rights [...]
Invasive Phragmites: Discovering the Tipping Point
It’s late summer at Fisherman’s Island State Park on Lake Michigan’s coast, just south of Charlevoix. And a team of researchers in chest-high [...]
Seeing the Forester and the Trees
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers our readers the fourth in her series of essays on natural resource experts. In this thoughtful and sympathetic [...]
Monitoring Change in the Waters of Leelanau
Change is inevitable. But some changes in the region’s natural resources are caused and accelerated by human activities. In these cases, informed people can make [...]
Improving Tree Canopy for Climate Resilience
The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay is sharing some good news. Mature trees can play an important role in controlling and limiting stormwater [...]
From Mosses to Mentoring: On Halbert’s Path
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers this essay to Nature Change readers on the beauty and wonder of mosses and ferns as seen through the [...]
Witness: Dr. Lisa Del Buono
A surgical pathologist, Dr. Lisa Del Buono works in a laboratory serving all of Northwest Lower Michigan. She is also a leading voice [...]
Woodland Ephemerals – A Springtime Nature Walk Through a Great Lakes Hardwood Forest
This video essay and brief description below were contributed by Matthew Kern, Production Assistant, UpNorth Media Center, LIAA. This spring I set out [...]
Creating Interpretive Signage for the Kids Creek Watershed
In this video, we hear from some very bright and dedicated young citizen scientists working to share what they have learned about the [...]
Grass River Natural Area – Facing the Challenge of Climate Change
This video is about people who are entrusted with the protection and preservation of one of northern Michigan’s most important and revered natural [...]
Lichen Heaven
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers this essay to Nature Change readers on the curious life of lichens in Northern Michigan and one of our [...]
Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch – Part 2. Ed Pike and the Young Owl Banders
In this short video, Nature Change offers an optimistic story about people – young and a bit older – who demonstrate true commitment [...]
Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch – Part 1. Soaring Across Big Water
This video begins with a small group of avid bird watchers gathering in a field on the western outskirts of Mackinaw City. Each [...]
The Once and Future Otter Creek
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers this essay to Nature Change readers about the long-term restoration of Otter Creek (a tributary to Lake [...]
Japanese Barberry & Blacklegged Ticks – On the Thorns of a Dilemma
In this video, Nature Change explores the impacts and rising concerns over an invasive species of plant that increases the threat of lyme [...]
Moving to the Land of Milliken – The Values of Place
Submitted by Dave Dempsey, this essay starts with a critical question. How important is place? To Michigan’s longest serving governor, Traverse City’s own [...]
Walking in a Good Way
My name is Hank Bailey. I am an Anishinaabe and a Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians tribal member who is [...]
Regenerating Damaged Forests & the Challenge of Overbrowsing
Are there too many deer in Northern Michigan? Many foresters and forest land managers respond with a resounding YES to that question. This [...]
Of Monarchs and Climate – A Conversation with Nature Photographer Charles St. Charles
In this video, we join District Forester Kama Ross for a conversation with the award-winning nature photographer, Charles St. Charles. They got together [...]
Witness: Kirk Waterstripe on the Importance of Healthy Soils
Specializing in soil science, Kirk Waterstripe is a plant biology instructor and manager of science laboratories at Northwestern Michigan College (NMC). In [...]