When fire changes the landscape

Two years after the Duck Lake fire swept through 21,000 acres in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, experts this spring will assess the need for new plantings to restore the primarily jack pine forest.

Photo Friday: The Manistique River’s slab wood islands

Have an environmental image you’ve taken somewhere within the Great Lakes region and that you’d like to submit for Echo’s Photo Friday series? Send it to greatlakesecho@gmail.com along with the photographer’s name and town of residence, approximate date it was taken, where it was taken and a little bit of description of what we’re looking at. Context – how you happened to take it or whether there were physical or technical challenges in capturing it – is also helpful.