Wildlife
Pollution possible cause of Lake Ontario eel decline
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This long-lived native species is getting cleaner, but its numbers are still kept in check by overfishing, parasites and dams.
Wildlife
How a Great Lakes butterfly is shifting the conversation about climate change adaptation
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A little blue butterfly is raising big questions about how to help animals adapt to a changing climate.
Wildlife
Bringing conservation to cities
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A new book explains how what was once considered the ultimate paradox is now setting the precedent for urban development — a wildlife refuge in Detroit. The author will discuss the promise of urban conservation in Dearborn Heights Wednesday.
Wildlife
DNR works to contain chronic wasting disease found in Meridian Township deer
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Michigan officials have confirmed the first case of chronic wasting disease in a wild deer.
Wildlife
“Pigs is pets” but boars are banned
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A 1905 story on the price of shipping guinea pigs found currency in a present-day Michigan Court of Appeals decision on Wednesday that the state’s Russian boar ban is constitutional.
Wildlife
Shrinking alewife population could deplete Great Lakes salmon
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The alewife, once the most hated fish in the Great Lakes, is now facing steep declines in population, but it’s not a cause for celebration.
Wildlife
Study looks at biofences for managing wolves
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The measures they studied include scent marks, playing recordings of the howling of other wolf packs and human activity.
Wildlife
Parts of upper Great Lakes could suit cougars
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Study says food, water, elevation, vegetation, remoteness are suitable. Recolonization could bring political and cultural problems similar to those involving wolves.
Wildlife
Earthworms rob forests of key nutrients; pave way for other invaders
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By Chris Symons
Compost box heroes, or the root of all ecological evil? Worms in Great Lakes forests are not what they seem. Trilliums are smaller, algal blooms are more common and hummingbird populations are decreasing. All of these are made worse by non-native earthworms in Great Lakes soil. A recent study in Ecosystems journal identified four key minerals that earthworms remove from soil and that native plants need to grow.
Wildlife
Some ostracods survive goby guts
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Survival provides insight into fish as agents of species dispersal.