Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/land/page/43/)
This category encompasses land-based issues. It is further segregated with tags into such issues as farm, urban redevelopment or decay, forest, mining.
The term “invasive species” is a new one in my life. I was raised to love nature. The idea that something that is growing out of the ground on its own has no business doing so was never considered. A case in point: The Purple Loosestrife Festival. This was something we looked forward to each year in rural Hillsdale County, in southern Michigan along the Ohio border.
A psychiatric hospital that once stood on 414 acres in southeast Michigan and housed thousands of long-term patients is littered with “Do Not Trespass” signs. Can it be safely rehabilitated for another use?
An operation must have a certain number of animals or animal units to be considered a CAFO, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
An animal unit is a method of measurement equal to 1,000 pounds of live animal weight.
A legacy of Michigan’s manufacturing might is seen in abandoned, contaminated and deteriorating buildings.
State officials are gearing up efforts to turn such sites into restaurants, condominiums, golf courses, new manufacturers.
Americans spend $152 billion for medical and pain and suffering costs related to foodborne illnesses.
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan rank in the top 10 states for the number of cases and money spent on them.
Nationwide there are 76 million cases a year resulting in 300,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths.
Nearly 9,000 schools across the country did not have any food safety inspections, during the 2007-2008 school year. The law requires two every year.
Michigan will hire 1,200 workers for 98 state parks and recreation areas this summer. The summertime experience can turn into a career.
Competition for the slots is heating up because of the poor economy.
Video: Great Lakes resource managers are turning to biological controls to deal with garlic mustard, a woodland invader that smothers native plants and poisons the soil in forested areas, campgrounds and backyards.
(IN) The Post-Tribune – U.S. Steel will update the public on its cleanup of several contaminated sites at its Gary Works facility on Thursday. Among the sites are two contaminated lagoons and a hazardous waste landfill on the west side. More
LANSING–In many ways, Michigan is a state of connections, including historic links between the Ojibwe people of Minnesota and Isle Royale. Such connections can be explored in words and pictures that illuminate the linkages that bind land and water, peoples and places, present and past. Minong — The Good Place (Michigan State University Press, $24.49) provides an in-depth account of the intimate relationship between the North Shore Ojibwe people and Isle Royale, which is now a national park in Lake Superior off the west coast of the Upper Peninsula. Timothy Cochrane, the former national park historian, describes how the Grand Portage Band had used the island and its resources, including the prized siscowet trout, the caribou that became especially prized when mainland moose numbers dropped in the 1800s, the beaver whose skins were traded and the maple syrup produced in the spring. The Ojibwe were involved in copper mining on the island, as well as commercial fishing operations.