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
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Volunteers
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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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.
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A Monarch Killer Comes to Kingsley
This story begins with monarch butterflies. In their larval stage – as caterpillars – these much beloved, colorful creatures rely on milkweed as
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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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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 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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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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Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch – Part 2. Ed Pike and the Young Owl Banders
In this short video, Nature Change offers an optimistic story about people – young and a bit older – who demonstrate true commitment
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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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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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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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Witness: Steve Largent
Last fall, we turned to Steve Largent for advice in developing this on-line magazine. As a wildlife biologist and program coordinator for the
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Volunteer Conservationists: Habitat Restoration at Brown Bridge
One Saturday last October, a group of volunteers set out to plant thousands of trees and shrubs along the Boardman River in the
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