conservation
Land conservancies protect natural areas across Michigan
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The 26 land conservancies spread out in every region of the state protect natural land from development and give residents an escape into nature.
conservation
Researchers say aquariums are key to conservation efforts in new book
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The vice president of conservation research at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago talks about how zoos and aquariums can support conservation efforts.
Capital News Service
Push on to improve conservation education
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Public schools don’t focus enough attention on teaching about conservation as part of the science curricula, a DNR expert and Michigan United Conservation Clubs say.
conservation
Transplanting martens falls short in Wisconsin, new study finds
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A recent study looks at a failed conservation attempt.
Arcadia
Saving Arcadia tells hopeful story of conservation success
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Author Heather Shumaker recounts the multi-generational tale of how grassroots conservation activists successfully saved Michigan’s iconic Arcadia Dunes along the Lake Michigan coastline.
Echo
Wet weather sewer project aims to save Michigan’s capital city $230 million
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‘Wet Weather’ sewer project aims to save Lansing $230 million by Great Lakes Echo
Lansing residents have a chance to weigh in on the latest suggestion for dealing with city sewage and stormwater. City administrators say the so-called “Wet Weather” project would combine Lansing’s 20-year old CSO, or “combined sewage overflow” project, with two other similar ones involving sanitary sewer overflow and stormwater. Chad Gamble is the Chief Operating Officer and Director of Public Service for the city, and he supports the “Wet Weather” project. He and others maintain the three initiatives can be successfully combined and would save taxpayers approximately $350 million dollars.
Echo
Current State: Michigan’s groundwater at risk
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The Great Lakes’ record-low water levels are rightly receiving all of the attention now, but evidence is growing that Michigan’s fragile groundwater resources are quietly becoming a concern for the future. Robert Glennon, professor of law and public policy at the University of Arizona and author of “Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to do About It,” knows Michigan well and shares his insights. Echo has reported on the consequences of drought on Great Lakes groundwater – which can also be seen on this map – and the challenge of measuring its effects. The need for better groundwater conservation continues to be a widely overlooked issue facing the Basin.
Echo
Environmental group: States drop ball on Great Lakes water use deadlines
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Great Lakes states have blown deadlines two and a half years after negotiating an historic water protection agreement, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council report.
Echo
Program with Wisconsin roots fosters love of outdoors among women nationwide
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Twelve women line up, bows in hand. At the chirp of a whistle, they pick up their arrows, draw their bowstrings, and hit their targets with loud thwacks.
Echo
Unwarranted
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(WI) Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel – Clean Wisconsin is right about one thing when it comes to Waukesha and water: The city’s possible application for Lake Michigan water will be a test case that will set precedent for communities around the Great Lakes. It needs to be done right, and that includes making sure Waukesha has an appropriate conservation plan in place, as required by the Great Lakes compact. But the environmental group didn’t have to insert itself as an intervenor in the city’s current water rate request to the state Public Service Commission or to ask that the city pay for the intervention. The environmental group could have gotten the same results without intervening, which carries a cost, the possibility of delay and the potential of creating ill will. More