Wildlife
Invasive species reintroduce toxic chemicals to Green Bay food web
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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
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Once nearly extinct in the Great Lakes region, piping plovers are on the rebound.
Wildlife
Slimy microorganism increasing in northern Michigan lakes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Wildlife
Chefs prepare Michigan fish feast
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A daylong examination of the potential of Michigan aquaculture ended with a fish feast.
Wildlife
Seafood Summit explores future of Michigan aquaculture
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Michigan Sea Grant Director Jim Diana says Michigan could boost its seafood industry by investing in aquaculture.
Wildlife
Hormone-mimickers widespread in Great Lakes waterways, fish
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Great Lakes waterways are contaminated with known endocrine disrupting compounds; scientists warn that fish are at risk