Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/category/land/page/4/)
This category encompasses land-based issues. It is further segregated with tags into such issues as farm, urban redevelopment or decay, forest, mining.
California has been in the news this wildfire season with millions of acres burned and orange skies that look like scenes from an apocalypse film. President Donald Trump says every year he gets a call that the Golden State is on fire. But wildfires are not just a problem in the West.
You won’t find barns and silos in Detroit. Or herds of cattle. Or fields of soybeans, sugar beets or wheat. Even so, much of the city is now “ruralized,” a new study says, a phenomenon also visible in Flint, Pontiac and Saginaw.
Results from a nearly 30-year ongoing study published by researchers at Michigan State University’s Kellogg Biological Station show that over the long-term, no-till agriculture produces improved crop yields.
A rapidly spreading invasive species may soon be on its way to Michigan.
It may be tempting to capture spectacular aerial photos of wildfires, but using drones is not only reckless, it’s illegal, and could have deadly consequences, according to firefighting experts in several states.
Instead of tossing that old t-shirt, use it to help plants grow.
Nobody knows how many abandoned mine features such as tunnels, shafts, pits and waste piles remain on federal land in Michigan and elsewhere, but untold numbers of them pose safety and environmental threats, a new General Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
A new infestation of the invasive insect was recently found in Michigan’s Mason County.
Migrant farm workers can’t practice social distancing.
A band of nonprofit organizations are looking to change how Englewood residents interact with their local environment and expand their worldview.