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
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Invasive Species
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
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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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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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The Conservationists of Tomorrow – Nature-based Childhood Education
The clean waters and beautiful landscapes we grew up with have changed. In less than a generation, invasive pests and diseases have completely
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Escaping Ornamentals: A Threat to Natural Area Biodiversity
Essay by: Miriam Owsley, Outreach Assistant, Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network Northern Michigan boasts some of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the country,
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Invasives, Climate Change … What’s a Land Conservancy to Do?
Essay By: Tom Bailey, Executive Director, Little Traverse Conservancy Change is coming to northern Michigan in a number of ways. The Great Lakes have
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The Future of Nature: Panel Discussion
Climate change, climate variability and invasive species threaten the future of natural resources in Northwest Lower Michigan. Changes in rainfall patterns and increased
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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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