Lake Michigan – Nature Change

Who Protects the Public Trust?

March 19, 2021NatureAdmin

Who Protects the Public Trust is a very short presentation by Professor Richard Norton, Taubman College, University of Michigan. Norton is an expert [...]

Why Shore Armoring Inevitably Fails

March 5, 2021NatureAdmin

In this short film, Professor Guy Meadows (Great Lakes Research Center, Michigan Technological University) describes how high-water levels and waves are changing the [...]

Tough Times for Great Lakes Beach Walkers

March 18, 2020NatureAdmin 1

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 [...]

Keeping the Count – Richard Couse, Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019NatureAdmin 2

In this short video, we meet Richard Couse, the new Executive Director of the Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch (MSRW). An avid birder and [...]

Always a Water Person

January 10, 2019January 11, 2019NatureAdmin

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. [...]

Viewers’ Choice 2018

December 27, 2018NatureAdmin

Fish and goats, boats and butterflies, rivers and snails are all topics of the most viewed Nature Change stories published in 2018. With [...]

Collecting the Evidence of Change

July 20, 2018NatureAdmin

Over the last 30 years, invasive species like zebra and quagga mussels and the round goby have rapidly and completely changed the water [...]

Grabbing the Thistle

May 3, 2018May 4, 2018NatureAdmin 1

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 Young Documentarians – Investigating the Changes in Our Environment

March 29, 2018April 4, 2018NatureAdmin 1

Recently, eleven of our region’s natural resources experts took turns in the hot seat, responding to questions posed by 8th grade science students [...]

Nature Change TV: Alewife, Chinook, Quagga, Goby – Waves of Change in Lake Michigan

January 30, 2018January 31, 2018NatureAdmin

In this video, the Executive Director for Interlochen Public Radio (IPR), Peter Payette leads an informative discussion on the status and possible future [...]