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State agencies and their partners are working to save the declining monarch butterfly, which is threatened by the black swallow-wort, an invasive vine that resembles the milkweed plants that monarchs need to eat.
In this video segment, random people answer questions experts believe environmentally literate citizens should understand.
The blood parasites that infect songbirds with avian malaria are far more diverse in Southwest Michigan than scientists knew.
Heavy snows this winter are bad news for the U.P.’s deer population. It’s harder than usual for them to move around and to find nutritious browse, according to the DNR.
The Bat Association of Michigan State University hosts event to educate the public on the importance of the winged creature.
A single pair of the shorebirds nested along the lake last summer for the first time in 60 years. They’re an encouragement to the wildlife managers who are reclaiming the plover’s old habitat.
Researchers say lake trout have flexible diets–calming fears that the resurgent species is competing with salmon for the dwindling supply of alewife in the Great Lakes.
The Michigan DNR has been ramping up its testing of deer for chronic wasting disease, including new testing efforts in Montcalm, Mecosta and Kent counties.
Sturgeons project their jawbones from their skulls, creating the suction they need to vacuum food from lake beds.
With only one surviving wolf known on Isle Royale, the national park’s moose population is climbing without predators to keep the numbers under control.