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/wildlife/page/43/)

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

Wildlife

This broad category encompasses fish. It is further divided on the main menu with tags for mammals, insects, amphibians, birds, mussels, invaders and endangered wildlife.

  • Related Topics:
  • Echo
  • Wildlife
  • Fish
  • CIGLR
  • Commentary
Wildlife

What Great Lakes game fish should you be fishing for?

By Logan Clark | May 8, 2015

Take our quiz. Related story.  

What Great Lakes Game Fish Should You Be Fishing For? by ProProfs

Wildlife

Property owner snared in Ohio trapping case

By Eric Freedman | May 4, 2015

Traps used to catch coyotes killing birds on hunting preserve also caught neighbor’s dog.

Wildlife

Imperiled butterfly leads way for conservation of climate sensitive species

By Kevin Duffy | May 1, 2015

Michigan has been the hotbed of the endangered Karner blue butterfly. But now a changing climate threatens the blue bug.

Wildlife

Invasive species reintroduce toxic chemicals to Green Bay food web

By Holly Drankhan | April 17, 2015

They can make a group of toxic chemicals deposited more than 45 years ago reenter the food web and contaminate predatory fish and possibly people.

Wildlife

Piping plovers make comeback in the Great Lakes

By Guest Contributor | April 15, 2015

Once nearly extinct in the Great Lakes region, piping plovers are on the rebound.

Wildlife

Slimy microorganism increasing in northern Michigan lakes

By Guest Contributor | April 7, 2015

Nope, that’s not tapioca pudding in your lake; it’s zooplankton, a microorganism in inland lakes that produces slime and can clog water pipes.

Wildlife

Researchers study need to protect Great Lakes turtle habitat

By Eric Freedman | April 7, 2015

They used radio tracking, GPS loggers and aerial imagery to follow a dozen turtles on a Lake Huron island.

Wildlife

Feds push long-eared bat to threatened status

By Kevin Duffy | April 2, 2015

U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials placed the northern long-eared bat under threatened protection. The April 1 decision contradicts the agency’s 2013 recommendation to list the bat as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

Wildlife

Great Lakes states receive more than $10 million from U.S. Fish and Wildlife

By | April 1, 2015

Great Lakes states received more than $10 million from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, around 22 percent of the $45 million total given through the State Wildlife Grant Program.

Wildlife

Michigan court tosses elk farm suit against state

By Capital News Service | March 31, 2015

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that the elk-breeding facility waited too long to sue after the state shut it down during a year-long chronic wasting disease quarantine. An appeal to the state Supreme Court is likely.

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.

  • Headshot of Ethan Theuerkauf
    Growth in shoreline armoring is reshaping Michigan’s Lake Michigan coast

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva A new study documents a fivefold increase in shoreline armoring along Lake Michigan’s Eastern coast.

  • How seeds from the past are saving a unique flower of the Great Lakes

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted just 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle in the sandy dunes of the Great Lakes. At the time, no one knew if the new populations would survive. Today, three decades later, the restored populations are thriving and spreading.

  • 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.

  • Great Lakes Echo

Contact Us

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

Search This Site

Browse Archives

© Copyright 2026, Great Lakes Echo

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

Back to top ↑