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Michigan’s forests underused, experts say
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Michigan could expand forest use beyond harvested timber to products such as syrup, furniture and ethanol.
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Michigan could expand forest use beyond harvested timber to products such as syrup, furniture and ethanol.
Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM.
This week Kart discusses minor league baseball team the Great Lakes Loons, plans for state forest land and woody debris in the Pigeon River. Text at Mr Great Lakes
The Globe Elevator is a piece of Great Lakes history and a source of old growth Eastern white pine. Wisconsin Woodchuck hopes to preserve both, claiming that destroying the elevator would have environmental consequences.
Drug traffickers have been conducting business deep within the lush canopy of Michigan’s forests since at least 2008. After five years of eradication efforts, police say the problem shows no signs of going away.
Wildlife is on the move in Michigan with species like black bears moving increasingly south.
Unseasonably warm weather this spring sparked the spread of oak wilt disease in Michigan earlier than expected.
Michigan officials reported that the disease has been found in more than 40 counties already.
With every gas-powered car and every traditional wastewater treatment plant, a little nitrogen pollution gets released into the atmosphere. Scientists say it settles into the soil and may even lead to toxic algae blooms that kill fish.
It’s not easy to talk about your own death, but for landowners it’s a conversation that could save both vulnerable wildlife and a family legacy.
Michigan’s 2.7 million acres of national forest produce enough lumber each year to build around 18,000 average-sized houses and provide habitat to endangered species such as the bald eagle and osprey.
Less than two miles past the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are dozens of cedars stripped of their bark and left to die.
“It is probably the most obscene thing I’ve witnessed,” said Renee Dillard, an elder of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians who recently discovered the damaged trees.