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Four lawmakers want the Michigan House of Representatives to adopt a resolution urging the National Park Service “to establish a moose tag lottery hunt” to help control the island’s growing moose population.
“The Heart of the Lakes” is a new book positioning Southeast Michigan, with its historic water connections and resurgent Detroit waterfront, as the premier freshwater destination.
An old philosophical question asks, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”But a more practical question today might be: “If your neighbor’s tree falls on your roof, who is responsible for the damage?”
A recent study looked at the intestinal contents of two mastodons preserved in lake sediments in Michigan and Ohio.
The species “is undergoing a dramatic expansion of its breeding range in North America,” the study published in the journal Ontario Birds said.
The National Parks Conservation Association examined air pollution at 417 National Park Service properties and concluded that 96 percent of them “are plagued by significant air pollution problems.”
The prehistoric Hopewell civilization of southern Ohio traveled as far as 750 miles to get copper. That was 2,000 years ago.
Lawyer plans to appeal.
As the Upper Peninsula reaches its capacity for grey wolves – there are more than 650 now — chances increase that some will migrate south across the ice to the northern Lower Peninsula, which currently has no wolves but plenty of suitable habitat for denning.
What are moose poop and pee good for? That’s a science question, and research on Isle Royale and in northeast Minnesota shows moose effectively transfer nitrogen — an essential nutrient for forest health — from the aquatic plants they chow down on to fertilize the forest.