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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Preserving Habitat – The Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network
Nature Change appreciates this article and accompanying video submitted by Emily Cook, Outreach Coordinator for the Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network. We hope [...]
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 [...]
Michigan Septic Summit – Protecting Fresh Water from Septic System Pollution
PLEASE JOIN US! This fall, Nature Change is joining with FLOW – For Love of Water, League of Women Voters of Leelanau County, [...]
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 [...]
Healing Habitat in Pigeon River Country
In the beautiful Pigeon River country of Northern Michigan, an old farmstead had fallen into disrepair. The land had been overgrazed by cattle [...]
The Environmental Educator – New Leadership at GTCD
In this short video, we meet Koffi Kpachavi, the new Executive Director for the Grand Traverse Conservation District (GTCD). A small farm operator and [...]
Beetlemania
Author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills offers readers another in her series of essays on natural resource experts and their work in Northern Michigan. In [...]
Learning & Working Together
In this short video, we learn how five different organizations and well over 150 volunteers joined forces for habitat restoration on Earth Day [...]
Local Governments Combating Invaders
The following article was submitted by Katie Grzesiak, Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network to help inform Nature Change readers about local government efforts [...]
Witness: Eric Hemenway, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
Born and raised in the Cross Village area, Eric Hemenway is the Director of Archives and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands [...]
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 [...]
Enhanced Migration of Trees – Climate Adaptation on Tribal Forest Lands
This fall, Nature Change visited the Little Traverse Bay Bands (LTBB) of Odawa Indians in Harbor Springs. We were there to ask about [...]
Conservation Volunteers – Why Do They Do It?
Recently, the Grand Traverse Conservation District sponsored a workbee to plant trees and shrubs at the newly expanded Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve. [...]
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 [...]
The Once and Future Northern Forests
In this photo essay, we join author, teacher and bioregionalist, Stephanie Mills on a visit to Houghton to meet Stephen Handler, a Climate Change Specialist based [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Raptor Rescue & Our Changing Environment
In this short video, Nature Change contributor, David Poinsett talks with the well-known raptor-rescue specialist, Rebecca Lessard about her activities as director of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Investing in Solar – Personal Choices with Public Benefits
“First and foremost,” Jim and Kelly Lively tell us, “going solar is a personal family decision.” This video essay reveals some of their [...]