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Forests

Capital News Service

New ways with wood open up building opportunities

By Jack Nissen | January 5, 2018

Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university’s forestry department are asking, “Why not wood?”

Art

Woods, whiskey, women and widow-makers caught in lumberjack songs

By Eric Freedman | January 4, 2018

New edition of 1926 book throws light on lumberjack life, loves and losses collected by an English professor while mostly hiking from Charlevoix, Michigan, to North Dakota.

Capital News Service

New tool against pollution is ancient: tree canopies

By Kaley Fech | November 21, 2017

Trees’ leafy canopies work like an umbrella over the pavement, keeping rainwater from flowing across the ground and into larger bodies of water.

Forests

Pennsylvania’s forest primeval

By Eric Freedman | November 17, 2017

Scenes from Hearts Content in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.

Climate change

Saving the great Northwoods may require transforming it

By Steven Maier | October 26, 2017

As a warming climate transforms forests across the northern Great Lakes, scientists working in the iconic Minnesotan landscape are embracing the change.

Land

Minn. fire tower wins historic site designation

By Eric Freedman | August 17, 2017

Before airplanes and 911 calls became the prominent ways to discover forest fires, forests were monitored from fire lookout towers.

Forests

Emerald ash borers may increase crime, study says

By Max Johnston | March 22, 2017

Researchers say tree loss plays a role in street crime.

Land

Public unhappy with Porcupine Mountains mining

By Natasha Blakely | March 20, 2017

Highland Copper’s exploratory drilling in the Upper Peninsula has angered many Michiganders.

Forests

VA bests legal challenge over controversial cemetery expansion

By Ian Wendrow | February 23, 2017

A proposed expansion of the Indianapolis Crown Hill National Cemetery by the Department of Veterans Affairs survived a legal challenge by the Indiana Forest Alliance and construction preparation is now underway.

Catch of the Day

Ohio informs public in fight against gypsy moth

By Max Johnston | February 14, 2017

The gypsy moth feeds on more than 300 types of trees and shrubs.

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Catch of the Day

  • Melanoma cases higher in rural areas, study finds

    Research shows that rural residents have higher rates of breast, prostate, cervical and colorectal cancer, lower rates of preventative screening and higher death rates from those types of cancer than urban residents.

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Podcasts

  • Northern Ontario art form pays homage to Native roots

    Heavily symbolic, Woodland art uses the vibrancy of primary colors to convey the ideology behind Ojibwe culture in the forms of animals, plants, people and even the land.

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  • Communities welcome return of winter festivals

    By Sammy Schuck Most people may know that festivals attract people to Michigan communities. What most may not know is that festivals and events in the state are an annual $1 billion industry, according to Michigan Festivals and Events Association CEO Mike Szukhent. According to Szukhent, the lack of winter festivals last year “hit hard.” […]

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