Echo
Lighthouses plan to pursue restoration plans
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Despite financial challenges, Michigan lighthouse boosters are eager to move forward with restoration plans this year.
Echo
On course for a ‘phenomenal year’: Charter captains hope for boom in 2021
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As the COVID-19 pandemic has upended much business as usual in the last year, charter fishing ventures on the Great Lakes say they’ve experienced higher demand for their services and look to this summer with anticipation.
Catch of the Day
The best-read Great Lakes Echo stories last year
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Take a look at Echo’s top 16 stories from 2020.
Catch of the Day
Breweries repurposing waste to feed people and animals
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How breweries are using the leftover grain from the brewing process.
Echo
Maritime museums brave the pandemic
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This spring, Michigan’s maritime museums are striving to rise above last year’s calamity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Echo
Folk songs preserve memories of Great Lakes shipwrecks
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A new study focuses on songs about the Edmund Fitzgerald and three other well-known wrecks.
Echo
Michiganders want more environmental education
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Residents worry a lack of environmental education threatens Michigan’s defining feature, the Great Lakes, according to a recent study.
Echo
Mentors to teach conservation farming to beginners, veterans, socially disadvantaged
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A Land Ethic Mentorship program run by the Wisconsin-based agriculture nonprofit organization, Sand County Foundation, will help poor, beginner or socially disadvantaged farmers across the nation practice conservation.
Echo
‘We now have a seat at the table:’ Michigan tribes embrace new Interior secretary
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With the recent confirmation of Deb Haaland to lead the Department of the Interior, the nation has its first Native American cabinet member.
Agriculture
Technology extends salad bowl to Midwest
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LED lights allow you to pick the spectrums of the sun that are most useful for plants.