diverson
Waukesha update
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Trying to keep diversion debate out of court.
Land
Beyond beauty, Michigan plants offer environmental edge
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Bill Schneider grows native Michigan plants and also designs ecologically focused projects such as prairie and wetland mitigation, and storm water recovery works.
Recreation
Exploring Michigan’s Pere Marquette River
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Since his college years, Doc Fletcher has been canoeing and kayaking the countless waterways in the Midwest. One of his favorite places to paddle is on the Pere Marquette River in Michigan.
Waste
Michigan may authorize new uses for toxic coal ash
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Michigan may authorize new uses for toxic coal ash by Great Lakes Echo
One of the bills that cleared the Michigan legislature this session was a provision that allows certain bio-waste materials to be re-used for beneficial purposes. These substances include things like cement kiln dust, wood pulp and coal ash. Coal ash is the leftover residue from coal burned by electric power plants. The bill permits coal ash to be used in road construction, but it may also be used in agriculture as a fertilizer supplement, causing some environmental advocates to become concerned. Current State’s Kevin Lavery speaks with Republican State Representative Wayne Schmidt, the bill’s main sponsor, who strongly states that coal ash is completely safe and does not pose any environmental threats.
Climate
Farm fertilizer produces greenhouse gas
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Most people are aware of the “sexy” greenhouse gas CO-2. Fewer know of its co-culprit nitrous oxide. The third-largest greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide is released in soil during a natural process. However, the increased use of nitrogen fertilizer in agriculture has resulted in harmful nitrous oxide emissions.
Recreation
Stargazers drawn to dark sky park
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Due to their locations away from city lights and often near water, dark sky parks offer enhanced opportunities to see, study, and enjoy the night sky and everything in it.
Wildlife
Mid-Michigan Peregrine Falcons expecting
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Few parents will produce offspring as rare as those of Eckert and Viper.
Recreation
Here’s how to cook those coveted morels
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It’s morel season in Michigan. The hard to cultivate, but delicious fungi is highly sought after by chefs. While many saute the mushroom in butter, there are plenty of other ways to cook the woodland delicacy.
Recreation
Here’s how to hunt for morels
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During the month of May, a different type of hunter takes to the Michigan woods. Their prey, the low-lying honeycomb shaped fungi, morels.
Land
Deadly piglet virus hits Midwest farms
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Pig farmers in Michigan and around the nation are losing piglets to a virus that is easily spread and almost always lethal to very young animals. So far, it’s killed over six million piglets.