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Phrag fight: is it friend or foe?
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How the First Nations people of Walpole Island are approaching the phragmites problem.
Catch of the Day
Michigan gets new state veterinarian
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Chronic Wasting Disease and tuberculosis in Michigan’s deer herd are among the priorities of Michigan’s new state veterinarian.
Wildlife
Dead deer data help detect wasting disease
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The technique helps speed the detection of Chronic Wasting Disease.
Art
Longtime conservationist follows Whitman’s recipe for successful life
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“The secret of making the best person is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
Plastics
Great Lakes advocates fight for last straw
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Plastic straws pose problems to waterways and the animals that inhabit them.
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.
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Recording lures endangered bird to Wisconsin woods
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Playback project helps diversify population of endangered Kirtland’s warblers.
Nearshore
Great Lakes researcher recognized for pioneering plastic pollution studies
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Her efforts led to bans on microplastics and to the discovery that plastic is ubiquitous throughout the environment.