Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/land/page/8/)
This category encompasses land-based issues. It is further segregated with tags into such issues as farm, urban redevelopment or decay, forest, mining.
Nobody knows how many abandoned mine features such as tunnels, shafts, pits and waste piles remain on federal land in Michigan and elsewhere, but untold numbers of them pose safety and environmental threats, a new General Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
A new infestation of the invasive insect was recently found in Michigan’s Mason County.
Migrant farm workers can’t practice social distancing.
A band of nonprofit organizations are looking to change how Englewood residents interact with their local environment and expand their worldview.
The Traverse City-based Go Beyond Beauty program has received funding through two projects from the Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program to tackle such plants as Japanese Barberry, baby’s breath and blue lyme grass that are spread by people putting them in gardens.
The Army Corps of Engineers is warning of damage and danger from rising Great Lakes water levels and winter storms.
As the first year of hemp farming in Michigan ends, industry leaders say they hope to make plastics and wood from the plant’s fiber — once they hurdle the obstacles to market expansion.
Giant hogweed, a plant that grows up to 14 feet tall and can burn and scar people, is on its way out in the state of New York.
Prescribed burns do more than prevent wildfires. The Michigan DNR says they also “help regenerate forests, control invasive species, create wildlife habitat and promote healthy forests.”
Michigan researchers recently created a series of steps to show people how to rid Great Lakes islands of plants and animals that invade their ecosystems.