Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/author/carolyn-sundquist/)
The only federally-protected underwater sanctuary on the Great Lakes could increase 10-fold to more than 4,000 square miles.
The expansion includes waters adjacent to Alcona and Presque Isle counties in the northeast of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.
Every day thousands of pounds of food are wasted at Michigan State University. But campus farms and cafeterias are starting to put the waste to work with worms and digesters.
A small, aphid-like insect was recently found infesting a stand of hemlock trees in south central Ohio and has increased fears that it is spreading.
My family has watched this bird feeder in the small tree outside our Farmington Hills, Mich., home for about ten years. I’ve never seen as many squirrels as this winter gathered under it or on the tree above it. There is an average of about ten squirrels a day. Maybe it’s the warm winter. Maybe they’ve finally learned the tricks of the trade.