Algae
Algae depresses Lake Erie home values
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Since 2014, local communities have spent over $1 billion trying to clean up the water.
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Perennial grains: great for beer, bread and the fight against climate change
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The initiative took a holistic approach in developing Kernza, thinking about how the plant could benefit farmers and the environment.
Land
Logger could go to prison for illegally cutting trees in Wisconsin national forest
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A northern Wisconsin logger faces possible time behind bars on charges he illegally cut timber in an environmentally sensitive part of the 1.5 million-acre Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. A federal grand jury in Madison has indicted 40-year-old Jerod Hecimovich on charges of stealing, injuring, cutting and removing live oak timber from an 88-acre parcel of national forestland in Bayfield County.
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Universities link Native American homelands to campus sites
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Acknowledging Native American ties to the land that Michigan universities occupy can make a powerful statement honoring the traditional history and culture. A land acknowledgment is a formal statement that recognizes and respects Indigenous peoples as stewards of the land where an institution is located. Acknowledgments are often executed through signs on campuses, email signatures and statements read before organized events.
Agriculture
Federal regulations hinder farming with drones
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Michigan farmers across the state say that the use of drones could revolutionize farming, but researchers working with drones say federal laws fail to meet their needs.
Land
Uncertainty among Michigan fruit growers drives climate-related adaptations
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Farmers are set to take on a growing number of challenges in the face of climate change.
Land
‘Adopt-a-Forest’ program encourages citizens to clean up public land
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The Adopt-a-Forest program is volunteer-driven and helps people engage with the outdoors and encourages them to keep public lands clean, the state Department of Natural Resources says.
Land
Commentary: We need wild places in urban spaces
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Are pockets of untrimmed greenery in urban spaces also wild spaces?
Agriculture
Rising fuel prices might cause Southern horses to vote ‘neigh’ on Michigan hay
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Michigan-grown hay is traveling south to feed horses in Florida.
Agriculture
Farmworkers need information on pesticides, federal report says
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Michigan and other states need to collect more information about the enforcement of worker protection standards to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposure, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigatory arm of Congress.