Echo
Michigan tribes fight long odds to restore wild rice, their history
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Rice is in its renaissance now.
Nearshore
State environment officials request removal of sandbags along Great Lakes shorelines
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Now three of Michigan’s four Great Lakes are back to historically normal levels, and the sandbags must go.
Echo
Michigan removes derogatory Native slur from Oxford Township boat launch
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The boat launch will now be called the Paint Lake DNR Boat Launch.
Nearshore
Great Lakes drownings bring updated flag system from DNR, concerns from others
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State park beaches across Michigan remain devoid of lifeguards to correct the flag system.
Echo
Michigan bottle return rate fell after pandemic ban. Would price hike help?
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Michigan’s return rate on bottles and cans, which stood at nearly 89 percent before the pandemic, has plummeted below 76 percent.
Echo
Free swim lessons part of larger Michigan effort to reduce drownings
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A staggering 70 percent of children in Detroit have little to no swimming experience.
Echo
Nature can nurture: MSU gardens help heal students
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Visiting the Horticulture Gardens means stepping into a different world.
Water
Great Lakes champs are part of the ecosystem they protect
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By Jada Vasser
A new book about the Great Lakes is written to reflect that their problems, solutions and champions are interrelated, much like the ecosystem it portrays. “This whole thing of bringing stakeholders together, creating a vision, co-producing knowledge, co-innovating solutions is in the book,” author John Hartig said. “You don’t get that anywhere else.”
Hartig’s “Great Lakes Champions: Grassroots Efforts to Clean Up Polluted Watersheds,” highlights 14 people who created programs and solutions to help communities that depend on the Great Lakes. These leaders took on the goal of restoring the Great Lakes through service and guidance. They all are hardworking and determined and share the same love for the Great Lakes, Hartig said.
Echo
Schools replace old-fashioned drinking fountains
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Because of the major impact of the Flint water crisis on Michigan, safe drinking water has become a public health, environmental and political priority.
Nearshore
Shocking news for Michigan fish
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Walleye and pike surveys start in early spring, followed by muskie surveys. In May, the DNR starts surveying general fish communities like panfish and bass, and from July to September it surveys streams.