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Land

This category encompasses land-based issues. It is further segregated with tags into such issues as farm, urban redevelopment or decay, forest, mining.

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Agriculture

Fluctuating weather complicates harvesting for Michigan farmers

By Laura Bohannon | March 10, 2017

While it may be too early to tell the full extent of changes in the weather on farmers and their crops, it could pose a problem for farmers in the coming months if the weather continues to fluctuate.

Forests

VA bests legal challenge over controversial cemetery expansion

By Ian Wendrow | February 23, 2017

A proposed expansion of the Indianapolis Crown Hill National Cemetery by the Department of Veterans Affairs survived a legal challenge by the Indiana Forest Alliance and construction preparation is now underway.

Echo

Grants could mean big improvements for Michigan county fairs

By Talitha Tukura Pam | February 17, 2017

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is giving county fairs the opportunity to apply for a $300,000 fund for grants to improve buildings.

Catch of the Day

Minneopa State Park bison herd set for expansion

By Liam Tiernan | February 16, 2017

Minneopa State Park is hoping a yearling bull will keep the herd going.

Capital News Service

Omena celebrates historic designation

By Eric Freedman | February 10, 2017

The Leelanau Peninsula hamlet has earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.

Land

National Park Service starts keeping track of park disturbances

By Natasha Blakely | February 9, 2017

The National Park Service is analyzing what impacts park landscapes to help maintain them.

Endangered wildlife

Fight invasives or protect pollinators: Neonicotinoids present tough choice

By Ian Wendrow | February 6, 2017

Neonicotinoids have been linked in some studies to declining pollinator population, but they are also a key tool in protecting ash trees from the invasive emerald ash borer.

Forests

Grinch busted for stealing Christmas — really

By Eric Freedman | February 2, 2017

The U.S. Forest Service busts a 70-year-old Minnesota man for stealing thousands of black spruce tree tops from the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota and selling them for Christmas decorations. Edminster — whose birthday coincidentally falls on Christmas Day — pleaded guilty to stealing federal government property and faces sentencing by U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright later this year.

Books

New book introduces readers to the prairie

By Karen Hopper Usher | February 1, 2017

A new book introduces readers to a compelling but disappearing landscape.

environmental politics

Improving Soo Locks top priority for state legislators

By Carl Stoddard | January 31, 2017

The Soo Locks are essential to the Great Lakes and the United States economy, and they desperately need to be upgraded.

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

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