Skip to content
  • logo
  • logo
  • Home
  • Solutions
  • Agriculture
  • Water
  • Cities & Suburbs
  • Nearshore
  • Recreation
  • Wildlife
  • Energy
  • Waste
  • About
  • Contact

Great Lakes Echo - Environmental news of the Great Lakes region

Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/recreation-2/page/21/)

  • Home
  • Solutions
  • Agriculture
  • Water
  • Cities & Suburbs
  • Nearshore
  • Recreation
  • Wildlife
  • Energy
  • Waste
  • About
  • Contact
Subscribe

Recreation

Outdoor, resource-based recreational activities.

  • Related Topics:
  • Echo
  • Hunting
  • COVID-19
  • Commentary
  • Parks
Recreation

Kiteboarder and swimsuit designer celebrates Halloween.

By Kayla Smith | October 30, 2015

Kiteboarding tricks are treats.

Recreation
Kayak rescue practice

Small watercraft account for many distress calls

By Capital News Service | October 28, 2015

The majority of Lake Michigan distress calls come from kayakers or canoeists who paddle into the lake and get caught in the wind.

Recreation

Wisconsin shipwreck added to the National Register of Historic Places

By McKenzie Suarez | October 20, 2015

As a pioneer of the cross-lake railcar ferry system, the Milwaukee contributed to an important time in history, featuring the design and operation of a steam screw vessel.

Recreation

Michigan filmmaker sets coming of age story in Upper Peninsula

By Kayla Smith | October 15, 2015

“Superior” based on 1,300 mile bicycle trip taken by two boys at the crossroads of uncertain futures.

Recreation
Back-country camping, Moheb Soliman

Minnesota-based artist travels around the Great Lakes in four months

By WKAR Current State | October 12, 2015

Current State talks with a Minnesota-based poet artist who traveled along all the Great Lakes shorelines this summer for his project H.O.M.E.S.

Recreation
Emeka Ikebude at ArtPrize

The Food Fix: ArtPrize artist creates piece on water scarcity

By David Poulson | October 8, 2015

The Food Fix podcasters visited ArtPrize in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, to talk to people who are taking a more artistic route to feed the world.

Eligible counties
Recreation

Grants boost hunter access in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula

By Capital News Service | October 8, 2015

An expanded Michigan land-access initiative will open more private land to hunters in the northern Lower Peninsula.

Snowmobiling
Recreation

New grants to promote snowmobiling in Michigan

By Guest Contributor | September 14, 2015

Michigan snowmobile trail expansion could boost local economy, but private land conflicts are likely to emerge.

Registered boaters
Recreation

Great Lakes states ranked for water action

By Kevin Duffy | September 8, 2015

From state park visitors traversing a river trail to licensed fishers scoring a fish tale, 28 states measured water activity using park reports and other publicly available data.

Recreation
Mobile Boat Wash unit sprays off hidden invasives

Free boat wash targets Michigan invaders

By Kevin Duffy | August 7, 2015

Michigan State University is fighting the state’s worst aquatic invaders with mobile lakeside education and free boat washes.

Load more articles

About Great Lakes Echo

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

  • Henderson holding a swan
    From otters to butterflies: How Minnesota became a pioneer in nongame wildlife conservation

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva In the late 1970s, when most wildlife conservation programs in the United States focused almost exclusively on game species, a quiet but historic shift began in Minnesota. It was here that one of the nation’s first state programs dedicated to protecting so-called nongame wildlife emerged from butterflies and bats to bald eagles and river otters. That story is now told in detail by Carrol Henderson in his new book, “A National Legacy: Fifty Years of Nongame Wildlife Conservation in Minnesota."

  • Michigan’s water infrastructure sees improvements, work still needs to be done

    By Clara Lincolnhol The U.S. would need to invest nearly $3.4 trillion over the next 20 years to fix and update drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, says researchers from The Value of Water Campaign. Much of that infrastructure was built 40 to 50 years ago and shows its age. Michigan’s is no exception. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state a D+ for its drinking water infrastructure, a D in storm water management and a C for its wastewater infrastructure. Funding is a major problem. Proposed data centers would put more stress on the infrastructure.

  • Mussels in a green net.
    Endangered spectaclecase mussels reintroduced into the Chippewa River

    By Ada Tussing To combat the population loss of spectaclecase mussels, researchers with both the Minnesota and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released over 177 mussels into the Chippewa River in Northwest Wisconsin.

  • Michigan allocates $77 million to clean thousands of contaminated sites

    By Clara Lincolnhol Michigan is pouring $77 million into clean-up of contaminated abandoned real estate such as former factories. The director of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy says the goal is to make the cleaned-up sites safe for housing, commercial developments and other uses.

  • Winter makes curved roads dangerous; researchers seek solutions

    By Eric Freedman Flashing light on warning signs near curves can slow drivers and reduce the odds of a crash during winter weather conditions, says a new study by Michigan State University engineers.

  • The cover of “Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project." The cover is moose antlers on the ground.
    Great Lakes books for your holiday gift list 

    By Eric Freedman   Looking for a holiday gift for a reader who loves the Great Lakes? Here are five prospects to consider – and what our reporters learned from interviewing their authors this year.

  • A side-by-side of the historic Portage Canal and modern Portage Canal from an aerial view.
    Restoration of historical site improves quality of life for Portage, Wisconsin residents

    By Joshua Kim Following the completion of segments 1 and 2 of the Portage Canal, local residents and visitors can use the historic site and its amenities following years of disrepair.

  • What herring gulls tell us about plastic pollution

    By Victoria Witke Christina Petalas, a doctoral student McGill University, studies herring gulls to learn about plastic pollution near the St. Lawrence River. Across two studies, she found plastic additives in every bird sampled, which could have human health consequences.

  • Scientists update geological map of northern Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva The U.S. Geological Survey has began large-scale low-level airplane flights over Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin to obtain high-resolution data on subsurface mineral structures and bedrock composition. The data will be used to create two- and three-dimensional maps to better understand the geological structure at depths of about 10,000 feet.

  • ‘Refusal is insisting on your own terms’: Indigenous activism in the Midwest

    By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira “Indigenous Activism in the Midwest: Refusal, Resurgence and Resisting Settler Colonialism” explores how Dakota and Anishinaabe communities in Minnesota continue their relationships to the land and challenge dominant settler narratives about ownership, belonging and identity.

  • Great Lakes Echo

Contact Us

Email: GreatLakesEcho@gmail.com
Phone: 517-432-1415

Search This Site

Browse Archives

© Copyright 2025, Great Lakes Echo

Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Back to top ↑