dunes
Shifting sands: dune lovers address challenges of moving landscape
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A dune summit in Lansing looks at the economic impact of the state’s popular landscape feature and the conservation and management changes ahead.
Recreation
Tagging fish with #fisHER
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Women who fish have created a new Twitter hashtag to promote awareness of their growing numbers.
Great Lakes
Would lifeguards make the Great Lakes safer?
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Most city and state Lake Michigan beaches, have not staffed lifeguards for years, and in some cases decades.
Wildlife
Michigan lawmakers push for moose hunt in national park
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Four lawmakers want the Michigan House of Representatives to adopt a resolution urging the National Park Service “to establish a moose tag lottery hunt” to help control the island’s growing moose population.
CIGLR
Great Lakes make for great moods
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A new study shows that people living away from the Great Lakes are hospitalized for anxiety and mood disorders slightly more frequently than those who live nearer to them.
Detroit
Is Southeast Michigan the freshwater capital of the world?
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“The Heart of the Lakes” is a new book positioning Southeast Michigan, with its historic water connections and resurgent Detroit waterfront, as the premier freshwater destination.
Echo
What’s on a mastodon’s menu?
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A recent study looked at the intestinal contents of two mastodons preserved in lake sediments in Michigan and Ohio.
Citizen science
Record a prized catch for science without revealing your favorite fishing hole
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Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium has released the Great Lakes Fish Finder App to record fish sightings in the Great Lakes area.
Urban
Competing visions for a famed river in a Midwest hotspot: Part 2
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This 2-part series explores two projects on Michigan’s Grand River and how a fast-growing region is struggling to define a relationship with the river it was built around.
Water
Competing visions for a famed river in a Midwest hotspot: Part 1
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This 2-part series explores two projects on Michigan’s Grand River and how a fast-growing region is struggling to define a relationship with the river it was built around.