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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s mission to guarantee clean and safe recreational water resources includes an assessment plan to make the public aware of problems.
DEQ said it has five related goals: 1) enhance recreational waters, 2) ensure edible fish, 3) protect and restore aquatic ecosystems, 4) ensure safe drinking water and 5) protect public safety.
A new state effort is targeting the shrinking amount of habitat land for grassland birds in the Lower Peninsula by focusing on pheasant restoration.
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Are you tired of sitting in a classroom to learn about the environment? Why not go outside to touch and feel nature?
More mushrooms are popping up, attracting tourists who taste, hunt and participate in mushroom festivals in Michigan.
The fungi is most plentiful in Northern Michigan and is a good way for the state to showcase locally grown food.
Valuable logs sank to the bottom of Michigan’s lakes and rivers during the 1800s when loggers floated their hauls.
Now proposed legislation would make permits to retrieve them easier to get.
Breathing diesel exhaust is unhealthy, and it does more harm than simply irritate organs. According to a new study, it is increasing the risk of cancer at an alarming rate.
Thought to have been a lost genetic strain of native fish, the reef cisco has reappeared in Lake Michigan in increasing numbers after 20 to 30 years out of biologists’ view.
On-site farm markets are becoming more common and were recently added to the Michigan Right to Farm Act.
The law includes roadside stands or farm markets but doesn’t define them or describe marketing.
Feral pigs wreaking havoc on fields and farms have made enough enemies for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to propose a ban on ownership of wild boars.
More than 100 Michigan communities have been honored under the Tree City USA program that promotes the economic, health and aesthetic benefits of trees on public property.
Michigan cities that won the designation include: Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Allegan, Brighton, Charlevoix, Big Rapids, Ionia and Rockford.