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Video: Mucking Up the Silt
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This video shows efforts to prevent stormwater from polluting Meyers Lake and its outflows into the Nimishillen Creek in northeastern Ohio.
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WhadayaKnow? What is a watershed?
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This week Echo reporters asked the public and an expert to explain what a watershed is.
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Photo Friday: Pair of sandhill cranes
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Photos taken at Kensington Metropolitan Park in Milford, Mich.
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Video: Farmers: Our Story
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An alternative lens on agriculture’s need for a healthy environment.
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What’s SUP? Michigan state parks lure diverse users with Rec 101
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Michigan state parks have launched an attempt to diversify their appeal.
Supporters say the effort makes people who otherwise may not be interested in outdoor recreation more apt to support the parks. Critics say the state should focus on park maintenance.
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WhadayaKnow? What is E. Coli?
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This week Echo reporters asked the public and an expert about E. Coli.
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Environment reporter receives honor
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Here at Echo we admire quality reporting on the environment, especially in the Great Lakes region. It looks like the Sierra Club does too. Journalist Jeff Alexander was recently honored for his in-depth environmental reporting by the Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club. The group cited his investigation into changes in Michigan’s forestry management as an exemplar of the quality journalism he’s doing. He’s also covered such issues as beach pollution and mining in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for Bridge Magazine. We’re a little partial to Alexander’s Asian Carp Doomsday Clock, a feature he created on his blog, All Things Great Lakes, to track how close carp are to entering the Great Lakes.
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Great Lakes farmers could earn credits for cutting greenhouse gas emissions
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A new emissions trading program may see farmers cut their greenhouse gas emissions without cutting their yields.
And they may even be paid to do it.
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Grazing goats: the eco-friendly way to control weed growth
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Settler’s Ghost Golf Course in Barrie, Ontario is one of the first Canadian courses to use goats as groundskeepers. It is more eco-friendly and cost-efficient, reports the Toronto Star. The practice is common in parts of the U.S. but remains relatively unknown, said Brian Knox, supervising forester and founder of Eco-Goats, a Maryland-based company that works with industries, landowners and environmental groups to implement eco-friendly vegetation control. “I’ve noticed that goats are suddenly becoming cool throughout the U.S.,” Knox said. “People are rediscovering how sustainable they are as livestock.”
Echo recently reported how authorities on New York’s Staten Island are using 20 goats to control invasive phragmites plants that are choking out the native vegetation in two-acres of wetlands.