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Michigan wants lead out of all pipes in 20 years
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New rules would require pipe replacement and reduce the acceptable level of lead in drinking water from 15 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion.
dunes
Dune fans include stormwatchers, ecologists, campers, economists
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Survey is part of attempt to build a dune support community.
Capital News Service
New ways with wood open up building opportunities
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Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university’s forestry department are asking, “Why not wood?”
Art
Woods, whiskey, women and widow-makers caught in lumberjack songs
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New edition of 1926 book throws light on lumberjack life, loves and losses collected by an English professor while mostly hiking from Charlevoix, Michigan, to North Dakota.
Capital News Service
Shoulder test near Ann Arbor could come to a highway near you
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An experiment allowing Michigan drivers for the first time to legally drive on a highway shoulder could lead to similar efforts across the state.
Green Gavel
Former New York paper mill official convicted of Clean Water Act violations
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Michael Ward failed to alert his supervisors at the APC Paper Group mill in Norfolk that the mill was exceeding the maximum daily level of discharges allowed under its state permit.
Capital News Service
Being licensed is not the same as being a trapper
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Nearly 30,000 people buy a Michigan fur harvester license each year. Some are trappers. The others are hunters of furbearing species. But only about half of the people who buy a license actually participate because of the time commitment involved, state officials say.
Catch of the Day
On the twenty-fifth day of Fishmas…
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Follow along with Great Lakes researcher Katie O’Reilly’s #25DaysofFishmas.
Catch of the Day
On the twenty-second day of Fishmas…
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Follow along with Great Lakes researcher Katie O’Reilly’s #25DaysofFishmas.