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Ada Tussing

Ada Tussing

Addie Tussing is a student at Michigan State University, majoring in English and sociology. She is a member of the campus radio station, The Impact, and loves reading, making crafts, and hiking. Her favorite great lake is Lake Superior.

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Land

Fight climate change from your garden with ‘birdscaping’

By Ada Tussing and Great Lakes Echo | February 20, 2026

By Ada Tussing

If you’ve noticed fewer birds in the sky recently, they haven’t all flown south for the winter. The North American bird population has dropped nearly 30% in the last 50 years. Mariette Nowak’s book “Birdscaping for Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region” offers a solution: birdscaping.

Mussels in a green net.
Wildlife

Endangered spectaclecase mussels reintroduced into the Chippewa River

By Ada Tussing and Great Lakes Echo | December 9, 2025

By Ada Tussing

To combat the population loss of spectaclecase mussels, researchers with both the Minnesota and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released over 177 mussels into the Chippewa River in Northwest Wisconsin.

About Great Lakes Echo

Environmental news of the Great Lakes region from the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.

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