Family’s roadside assistance saves 16 snapping turtles 

Family’s roadside assistance saves 16 snapping turtles 
Great Lakes Echo
By Samantha Plunkett Turtle conservation is important because the reptiles can take two decades to reproduce. One Battle Creek family saw this firsthand when they saved turtle eggs from a road.
By Samantha Plunkett Turtle conservation is important because the reptiles can take two decades to reproduce. One Battle Creek family saw this firsthand when they saved turtle eggs from a road.
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Family’s roadside assistance saves 16 snapping turtles 

Great Lakes coastal wetlands improve after invasive species removal, study finds

Great Lakes coastal wetlands improve after invasive species removal, study finds
Great Lakes Echo
By Anna Ironside Recent research on Great Lakes coastal wetlands suggests native plant communities can respond quickly after invasive phragmites australis is removed.
By Anna Ironside Recent research on Great Lakes coastal wetlands suggests native plant communities can respond quickly after invasive phragmites australis is removed.
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Great Lakes coastal wetlands improve after invasive species removal, study finds

Michigan DNR probes why 27 lake sturgeon got trapped

Michigan DNR probes why 27 lake sturgeon got trapped
Great Lakes Echo
By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is embarking on a three-year project to understand why nearly 30 threatened lake sturgeon became trapped last summer near the Ontonagon River in the Upper Peninsula.
By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is embarking on a three-year project to understand why nearly 30 threatened lake sturgeon became trapped last summer near the Ontonagon River in the Upper Peninsula.
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Michigan DNR probes why 27 lake sturgeon got trapped

Michigan eyes 721 acres in the western U.P. for public access and wildlife habitat

Michigan eyes 721 acres in the western U.P. for public access and wildlife habitat
Great Lakes Commission
Michigan forestry and wildlife officials have applied for more than $1 million in grants to buy a combined 721 acres in the western Upper Peninsula to consolidate state ownership and […]
Michigan forestry and wildlife officials have applied for more than $1 million in grants to buy a combined 721 acres in the western Upper Peninsula to consolidate state ownership and […]
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