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Nearly 100 residential yards in a nine-block neighborhood of St. Louis, Mich., are scheduled to be dug out and replaced with clean soil. It is the latest attempt to reduce the decades-old contamination legacy of the same chemical factory that brought Michigan’s PBB crisis of the mid 1970s.
Our first expert birder reveals his picks for favorite birds of the Great Lakes region.
Today Echo kicks off a weekly series on birds of the Great Lakes region.
Scientists are measuring the contaminants in birds to track Great Lakes environmental trends and monitor the success of chemical cleanups.
Residents of a small west Michigan lake recently limited a policy on killing invasive mute swans to only those that are aggressive. State officials say the bird can displace native trumpeter swans, eat and destroy wetland vegetation and chase wildlife and even people.
Few parents will produce offspring as rare as those of Eckert and Viper.
Detroit Public Television is webcasting live an interview with author, blogger, columnist, educator and birding expert Sharon Sorenson at 1 p.m. today. Sorenson will explain how to better host birds in the backyard and around the world in the Great Lakes Now Connect program produced with The Nature Conservancy. The program is hosted by veteran journalist Christy McDonald, and moderated by Patrick Doran, The Nature Conservancy’s director of science for Michigan and the Great Lakes. Panelists include John Hartig, the manager of the Detroit International Wildlife Refuge and a board member of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy Refuge and Melinda Pruett-Jones, former director of Chicago Wilderness and the first-ever director of the American Ornithologists’ Union. The program and related features can be seen here:
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Or you can see it on TV on International Migratory Bird Day, May 10th at 3 p.m. or on May 15th at 10 p.m.
It’s spring and love is in the air for turkeys. The ritual is not an event for two, but three. As Current State’s Melissa Benmark discovered, even turkeys need a wingman to land the lady of their dreams.
Researchers are trying to chase away crows whose excrement is causing unsanitary conditions on campus.
Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM. White-Nose Syndrome in Michigan, Birds in Tawas, and Earth Day in Bay City | Mr Great Lakes by Great Lakes Echo
This week, Kart discusses the white-nose syndrome recently found in Michigan bats, the Tawas Point Birding Festival and Bay City’s plans for Earth Day. Text at Mr. Great Lakes