Curious what land is protected in your state?
Then meet CARL — a Conservation And Recreation Lands map.
A decade-old discovery in Lake Michigan is already disappearing.
From 2003 to 2007, researchers estimate that the cormorant ate 13 million fewer yellow perch and 600,000 fewer smallmouth bass in two large Lake Ontario cormorant colonies.
This week: The debate on “shrinking the city” because of the large inventory of vacant, overgrown lots and abandoned homes. In this clip, Mama E and Mayor Dayne Walling are on the same side of the debate.
A map made by the Michigan Lighthouse Fund has information for more than 100 structures along Lake Michigan, Superior and Huron.
Around a quarter of Michigan’s Great Lakes tributary streams and rivers are ecologically impaired.
A biological control facility in Brighton, Mich. produces thousands of tiny, stingless wasps each week that will target invasive emerald ash borers.
Researchers are increasingly recruiting different wasp warriors in the battle against the emerald ash borer, a destructive, tree-eating beetle that has infiltrated the entire Great Lakes region.
Costly insecticides, tree-removal strategies and bans on moving firewood have provided some defense against the critter.
But a bug-on-bug battle strategy appears to hold promise.
Biologists discovered the disease in New York in 2006, and it has since spread into Pennsylvania, Ontario and 14 other states and provinces.
Watch the latest installment of the Greening of Flint documentary, in which Master Jacky and Dora King send a message that sustainable farming is one way to revitalize the community.
