Green Gavel
Court says protected area does not extend below parks
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Citizens have no legal right to vote to approve drilling for oil and gas under city-owned parks and cemeteries, ruling says.
Commentary
Public Health Crisis? Nah.
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That deluge of state pronouncements, announcements, advisories and denouncements about Flint water reflects a misperception that better PR is — if not a solution to the poisoning of a city, at least a priority deflection of too-slow-to-act criticisms and of the unfavorable and unwelcome international media attention the crisis continues to draw.
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
Fungal diseases threaten Great Lakes walnut, butternuts
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The fungus has wiped out about 90 percent of Michigan’s butternut trees.
Recreation
National Register adds Michigan’s Rice Bay, historic Ishpeming building
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The two sites were added because they are “associated with events that have made a significant contribution” to our history.
Recreation
Michigan gets four Historic Places designations
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According to NPS guidelines, the sites must be significant “in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering and culture.”
Recreation
Great Lakes national parks prepare for centennial
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Popular or not, vast or small, the national parks of the Great Lakes region are publicly owned treasures of environmental and natural resources, historic and cultural wealth, recreation and national identity.
Wildlife
Round goby a good-news, bad-news Great Lakes invader
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Crayfish populations are up since the round goby invaded Lake Erie and became the preferred food of small mouthed bass.
Echo
Book explores Michigan’s shadow villages and ghost towns
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Retired librarian resurrects their past, tells their stories.