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Field trip grants make fourth grade so much better

By Kayla Smith | February 11, 2016

Grants geared towards field trip transportation funding will get Michigan fourth graders out exploring public lands and waters.

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Michigan gets four Historic Places designations

By Eric Freedman | February 9, 2016

According to NPS guidelines, the sites must be significant “in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering and culture.”

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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore could be connected by National Marine Sanctuary

By Morgan Linn | February 8, 2016

A group of Wisconsin citizens plan to nominate the waters surrounding the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as a National Marine Sanctuary.

Recreation

Michigan gun sales booming as regulations increase

By Capital News Service | February 4, 2016

Gun sellers are running into shortages at the distributor level as a result of recent gun regulations.

Recreation

Great Lakes national parks prepare for centennial

By Eric Freedman | February 1, 2016

Popular or not, vast or small, the national parks of the Great Lakes region are publicly owned treasures of environmental and natural resources, historic and cultural wealth, recreation and national identity.

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Sanctuary Theater

Alpena film festival filled with Great Lakes and ocean flicks

By Kevin Duffy | January 26, 2016

The fourth-annual Thunder Bay International Film Festival dives into Great Lakes shipwrecks, conservation and transport.

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Mr. Great Lakes, Jeff Kart

Mr. Great Lakes on Au Gres River restoration, Michigander bucket lists

By Jeff Kart | January 25, 2016

Mr. Great Lakes talks watershed stewardship funding and Michigan-themed bucket list additions.

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Lake Superior agates

Precious memories from semiprecious stones

By Colleen Otte | January 22, 2016

Lake Superior agate enthusiast Dale Hugo shares a photo of the largest of the semiprecious stones in his collection.

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Trust fund awards $28 million for Michigan public lands projects

By Yuehan Liu | December 21, 2015

Royalties from oil and natural gas drilling support Michigan recreation projects.

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Debate continues in Michigan on how to get the lead out — of ammo

By Capital News Service | November 30, 2015

Leftover lead from fragmented ammo is putting bald eagles at risk.

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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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