Who Protects the Public Trust?
Who Protects the Public Trust is a very short presentation by Professor Richard Norton, Taubman College, University of Michigan. Norton is an expert
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Great Lakes
Why Shore Armoring Inevitably Fails
In this short film, Professor Guy Meadows (Great Lakes Research Center, Michigan Technological University) describes how high-water levels and waves are changing the
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Tough Times for Great Lakes Beach Walkers
The beaches along Michigan’s west coast have all but disappeared under the rising water levels of Lake Michigan. In fact, lake levels haven’t
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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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Water & The Public Trust
This new video was submitted by FLOW – For Love of Water to help explain how the public trust doctrine applies to water.
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Always a Water Person
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.
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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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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
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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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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 Heros: Volunteer Conservationists
In this essay, Nature Change Editor, Joe VanderMeulen reflects on the heros among us. If you love fishing, bird watching, walking in the
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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