Wildlife
Study looks at biofences for managing wolves
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The measures they studied include scent marks, playing recordings of the howling of other wolf packs and human activity.
Wildlife
Congress may take up state management of gray wolves
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A bipartisan bill that is still in draft would remove federal protection of the gray wolf in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Wildlife
Hunting not sole issue in wolf debate
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Hunting is only one part of an effort to manage the state’s wolf population, and only one part of the larger issue, according to researchers at Michigan State and Michigan Technological universities.
Wildlife
DNR: Wolf management plan can include responsible hunting
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Some states are considering hunting as a way to control potential wolf/human conflicts.
Wildlife
Minnesota’s second wolf hunt offers lessons for Michigan
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After a year filled with controversy, Michigan is holding it’s first wolf hunt in nearly 40 years.
Although this is Michigan’s first hunt, that’s not the case for other states in the upper Midwest.
Minnesota and Wisconsin are both heading into their second wolf hunt this year.
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.
Wildlife
With Michigan wolf hunt less than a month away, debate rages onward
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With Michigan’s first wolf hunt set to begin in less than a month, citizens’ right to hunt the once-protected species has developed into a polarizing issue.
Echo
Michigan’s recycling rate is lowest in Great Lakes region
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Michigan’s recycling rate is lowest in Great Lakes region by Great Lakes Echo
At 20 percent, Michigan’s recycling rate is 10 percent lower than the regional average. Many people around the state are hoping to change that. In 2012, Governor Rick Snyder identified increasing Michigan’s recycling rates as a priority for his administration. Michigan Recycling Coalition executive director Kerrin O’Brien discusses what a comprehensive recycling plan might include. Also this past March, the Keep Michigan Wolves Protected coalition submitted some 255,000 signatures in a bid to overturn the law passed by the Michigan legislature that put wolves on the list of game species. The Senate
soon passed another law that essentially circumvented the petition. Now, the group is trying again with a second referendum drive. This time, the president of the Human Society of the United States was in Michigan earlier this week to lend his support. We spoke with HSUS president Wayne Pacelle about the issue. This environmental segment of Current State is supported by Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. For more news of the Great Lakes environment, you can check out GreatLakesEcho.org
Wildlife
Wolf hunting weighed in Michigan
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Michigan and other Great Lakes states are weighing wolf hunting seasons.
Michigan wolves, numbering less than 1,000, were taken off the Michigan endangered species list in December.