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Karen Hopper Usher

Karen Hopper Usher
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Iconic sport hangs on in Michigan

By Karen Hopper Usher | November 22, 2016

The traditional sport of foxhunting lives on in Michigan, where the thrill is in the chase and the quarry lives to run another day.

Climate change

Michigan man on decades-long quest to photograph native orchids

By Karen Hopper Usher | November 4, 2016

Nature photographer Mark S. Carlson has spent decades finding and photographing the rarest and most beautiful orchids in Michigan, a state with some of the most species of the flowers.

Nearshore

New effort to track wild rice in Michigan

By Karen Hopper Usher | October 10, 2016

A statewide effort to track wild rice will need the help of tribal leaders who harvest and have already restored some rice beds.

About Great Lakes Echo

Environmental news of the Great Lakes region from the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.

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