From crime boss and occasional visitor “Scarface” Al Capone to the Upper Peninsula’s own Public Enemy #1, John “Red” Hamilton, Up North has historic ties to organized crime and the baddies who used the area as a playground.
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Podcast: A Slow Explosion of Damaging Forest Insects
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Part one in a series of podcasts on forest invaders from the USDA Forest Service.
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Too many dams, too little money
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A combination of heavy rain and aging infrastructure led to the collapse of the Edenville and Sanford dams along the Tittabawassee River in Midland County, Michigan on May 19. The state can only afford to address a fraction of those dams with the current fund.
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The future of Michigan’s environmental risk
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This is the final part of a four-part series on Environmental Risk in Michigan: Past, Present and Future.
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Images show impact of Midland County flooding
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Images from NASA’s Earth Observatory illustrate the recent flooding in Midland County, Michigan.
Catch of the Day
Michigan environment officials Zoom you out of the office
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The agency has posted images of the state’s natural wonders formatted for use as a Zoom background.
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Education builds lasting connections to Michigan’s environment
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This is the third part of a four-part series on Environmental Risk in Michigan: Past, Present and Future.
Art
“Mastering the Inland Seas” explores history of Great Lakes navigation
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The new book from Theodore Karamanski explains how industries and communities dependent on the Great Lakes have created tools and markers to safely navigate them.
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Looking back at Michigan’s environmental risk
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This is the first part of a four-part series on Environmental Risk in Michigan: Past, Present and Future.
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Research delayed: Megan Mader
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Coronovirus one more danger of fieldwork to study the impact of people on the ecology of drowned river mouths.