Restoring the Crystal River
This short documentary film is about several big problems that overlap, literally. This film is also about governmental and nonprofit organizations working together
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Fisheries
Restoring the Pine River
This past summer (2021), the sounds of trucks, bobcats and excavators echoed down from the high bluffs above the Pine River in Northwest
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Brookie Lessons
In this short video, we visit a little creek or “brook” in southern Leelanau County fed by groundwater springs and flowing toward Lake
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Stopping Eurasian Watermilfoil
No one knows how it got there, but for several years a dangerous invasive aquatic plant has been infesting the shallows of beautiful
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Witness: Dave Dempsey, Great Lakes & Water Policy Expert
Currently a senior policy specialist for FLOW – For Love of Water, Dave Dempsey has worked in and out of government as an
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Seven Mini-Docs on Climate & the Environment from the Young Documentarians
Are frog populations diminishing? Is the changing climate interfering with bird migration? Do the big storm and changing temperatures have any impacts of
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Viewers’ Choice 2018
Fish and goats, boats and butterflies, rivers and snails are all topics of the most viewed Nature Change stories published in 2018. With
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nature Change TV Episode 2: A Legacy of Conservation Leadership
Too many deer? Michigan Weather? Old growth forests? Invasive species? These are some of the topics taken on by two of Northern Michigan’s
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Climate Weirding & the Mysterious Great Lakes
Complex systems with weird behavior might describe both the global atmosphere and the Great Lakes. In this essay, noted environmental policy expert and
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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
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Discovering Lake Trout Secrets in the Deeps of Elk Lake
This short video essay, tells the story of Lake Michigan’s lake trout populations and the efforts to restore this iconic species of fish.
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Tracking Change in Lake Michigan’s Fisheries
The SV Steelhead is operated by the Michigan DNR out of the Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station. The trawler has been used for scientific
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