Recreation
Hunter harassment conviction overturned in Illinois
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The court said that the anti-harassment law exempts disruptive behavior that involves legal use of one’s own property by landowners and tenants.
Land
When rock talks, science listens
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Ohio study of fossils in millstones give clues to their origin.
Land
New book details Duluth/Superior street car system
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The physical remnants of this era are gone, but author Aaron Isaacs got his hands on an impressive wealth of research materials rich in interesting details, stories and images.
Waste
Landfills line lakeside landscape
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Growth of cement plant dramatically illustrated with contrasting photos.
Water
Color-coded economies no cure for immediate environmental ills
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How does a blue economy deal with unaddressed problems that are smack in our face today?
Land
What’s in a name?
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What was the former emperor of France doing in Northern New York, about an hour’s drive south of the St. Lawrence River?
Land
When fire changes the landscape
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Two years after the Duck Lake fire swept through 21,000 acres in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, experts this spring will assess the need for new plantings to restore the primarily jack pine forest.
Water
Great Lakes Year in Review: algae blooms, pipelines, and federal funding
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Current State looks back at the biggest Great Lakes environmental stories of 2014.
Echo
Writers, readers, tweets and likes. What resonated with you in 2014?
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Morning coffee in hand you click on the Echo homepage. What prompts you to read the lead story? Or exit and move on to the national news in your favorite paper? The divide between what a commentator writes about and what readers want to read can be wide. What I think is important for you to know may not be of interest.
