Wildlife
Pollution possible cause of Lake Ontario eel decline
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This long-lived native species is getting cleaner, but its numbers are still kept in check by overfishing, parasites and dams.
Wildlife
How a Great Lakes butterfly is shifting the conversation about climate change adaptation
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A little blue butterfly is raising big questions about how to help animals adapt to a changing climate.
Wildlife
Parts of upper Great Lakes could suit cougars
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Study says food, water, elevation, vegetation, remoteness are suitable. Recolonization could bring political and cultural problems similar to those involving wolves.
Climate
Volunteer monitors track Michigan’s 150 butterfly species
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The Michigan Butterfly Network will soon be sending volunteers out to survey the state’s butterflies.
Wildlife
Imperiled butterfly leads way for conservation of climate sensitive species
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Michigan has been the hotbed of the endangered Karner blue butterfly. But now a changing climate threatens the blue bug.
Wildlife
Piping plovers make comeback in the Great Lakes
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Once nearly extinct in the Great Lakes region, piping plovers are on the rebound.
Wildlife
Researchers study need to protect Great Lakes turtle habitat
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They used radio tracking, GPS loggers and aerial imagery to follow a dozen turtles on a Lake Huron island.
Wildlife
Congress may take up state management of gray wolves
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A bipartisan bill that is still in draft would remove federal protection of the gray wolf in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Wildlife
Long-eared bat listing gets pushback
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A fight over logging restrictions is delaying federal protection of the northern long-eared bat, a Great Lakes species already decimated in the American Northeast.
Wildlife
Experts warn against osprey nest removal
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As osprey populations continue to increase, so do the issues that they face in a changing environment.
Experts are spreading the word that extreme caution needs to be taken concerning the birds’ nests on cell phone and powerline towers.