Land
Preventing wildfires by setting them
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Prescribed burns do more than prevent wildfires. The Michigan DNR says they also “help regenerate forests, control invasive species, create wildlife habitat and promote healthy forests.”
Land
Amateur rockhound eyes yooperlite career potential
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Michigan native Erik Rintamaki discovered a glowing rock on the shores of Lake Superior – and a new career path.
Art
When POWs logged Michigan’s North Woods
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Retired Northern Michigan University professor uses fiction to explore life at the real but little known-UP WWII prison camps now rapidly fading from view.
Echo
Is it mining? Timber? Weather? Upper Peninsula population trend puzzles
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A curious, century-old population trend in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula shows a yo-yoing cycle of growth and decline every 20 years.
It could be rooted in natural resource issues.
Perhaps the timber or mining industries are behind it… or maybe the weather.
Wildlife
Podcast: John Vucetich on Michigan’s wolf hunt, which begins today
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We talked to John Vucetich, a wildlife biologist and professor at Michigan Technological University, last month about Michigan’s first-ever wolf hunt, which begins today.
His answers are featured in our latest podcast.
Echo
Photo Friday: Hungarian Falls freezes over
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A February snowshoeing trek to lower Hungarian Falls, near the town of Hubbell in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, revealed the 50-foot cascade to be largely encased in ice. Water could be heard trickling beneath the frozen surface, running into the winter-diminished Dover Creek and out into nearby Torch Lake. Photos by Julie Dau.
Echo
Grant helps invasive plant fight in Michigan Upper Peninsula
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Garlic mustard, purple loosestrife and other alien plants are threatening Michigan’s Upper Peninsula’s ecosystem. A $150,000 federal grant will help local government agencies and environmental groups control the invaders.
Echo
U.P. sulfide proposal sparks criticism
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The state has already approved one controversial mine in the Upper Peninsula, and now other companies are poised to start a similar lengthy permit application process.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment approved a permit for the Kennecott Minerals Co. Eagle project in the Yellow Dog Plains earlier this year.