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Forests

Climate

Great Lakes wildfires could double

By Hannah Brock | October 19, 2021

Climate change and more fuel for fire are the culprits.

Catch of the Day

Podcast: Wasps vs Emerald Ash Borer Beetles

By Jonathan Yales | June 29, 2020

Great Lakes Echo and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service are collaborating to share the first season of their podcast, Forestcast.

Echo

New podcast on forest invaders, scientists who study them

By Jonathan Yales | June 22, 2020

Forestcast is a new podcast from USDA Forest Service.

Recreation

Lanterns light winter nights at this Michigan state park

By Taylor Baker  | December 20, 2019

Hartwick Pines State Park has new winter programming that promises to show the park’s old growth forest in a new light.

Climate

Plant trees, store carbon, save the environment

By Evan Jones | November 12, 2019

Michigan’s 3.9 million acres of state forests could be recruited for a fight to limit climate change by storing carbon emissions.

Diversity

Hip-hop forestry with Thomas Easley

By Marshall Lee Weimer | May 8, 2019

Combining a love for both forestry and hip-hop, Thomas Easley has recruited diverse students into environmental sciences.

Homepage Featured

Recording lures endangered bird to Wisconsin woods

By Kaley Fech | October 10, 2018

Playback project helps diversify population of endangered Kirtland’s warblers.

Capital News Service

New ways with wood open up building opportunities

By Jack Nissen | January 5, 2018

Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university’s forestry department are asking, “Why not wood?”

Art

Woods, whiskey, women and widow-makers caught in lumberjack songs

By Eric Freedman | January 4, 2018

New edition of 1926 book throws light on lumberjack life, loves and losses collected by an English professor while mostly hiking from Charlevoix, Michigan, to North Dakota.

Capital News Service

New tool against pollution is ancient: tree canopies

By Kaley Fech | November 21, 2017

Trees’ leafy canopies work like an umbrella over the pavement, keeping rainwater from flowing across the ground and into larger bodies of water.

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Catch of the Day

  • Michigan Press Association honors Echo in news contest

      Great Lakes Echo recently placed second in the College Newspaper of the Year category of a Michigan Press Association contest.

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COVID-19

  • Communities welcome return of winter festivals

    By Sammy Schuck Most people may know that festivals attract people to Michigan communities. What most may not know is that festivals and events in the state are an annual $1 billion industry, according to Michigan Festivals and Events Association CEO Mike Szukhent. According to Szukhent, the lack of winter festivals last year “hit hard.” […]

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Podcasts

  • ‘Adopt-a-Forest’ program encourages citizens to clean up public land

    The Adopt-a-Forest program is volunteer-driven and helps people engage with the outdoors and encourages them to keep public lands clean, the state Department of Natural Resources says.

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Photo Friday

  • NASA astronaut captures Belle Isle image from space

    The Detroit River is one of the most important waterways in the Great Lakes system, according to NASA’s post.

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