By Anna Ironside
Postage stamps featuring wildlife are helping to fund conservation and bring awareness to communities about habitat protection throughout the Great Lakes region by centering species like the wood duck (Aix sponsa), wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and piping plover (Charadrius melodus).
The “living” sand dune along Lake Michigan has buried beach parking lot and infrastructure within Indiana Dunes National Park. Annually the dune sand moves about five to ten feet toward […]
The boiler from the 1914 shipwrecked Silver Spray remains just offshore of Chicago in the Morgan Shoal, the ancient shallow bedrock in Lake Michigan. Chicago residents and advocates fear an […]
An iconic Lake Michigan lighthouse, the Big Sable Point Lighthouse in Mason County, Michigan, could be restored two years earlier than expected due to the unanticipated speed with which the […]
A Lake Michigan shipwreck off Door County, Wisconsin, that was missing for almost 140 years until found in June 2025, was named to the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places. […]
A man survived after being swept into Lake Michigan by waves while on a closed pier in South Haven, Michigan, last Friday. The life ring used in the rescue came […]
In December 2025, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approved to reduce commercial fishing quotas for whitefish in Lake Michigan by 40% in response to a dramatic population decline. Those quotas went […]
As the S.S. Badger car and passenger ferry gears up for its 2026 season, its chief engineer of 24 years is retiring. He lived on board for seven months of […]
By Samantha Ku
A rare ravine ecosystem on Lake Michigan's western shore is vulnerable to human encroachment. A recent federal grant is supporting restoration efforts in the region.
The post Preservation project launches effort to restore rare ravine ecosystem first appeared on Great Lakes Echo. A shipwreck hunter discovered the wreck of the Lac La Belle, a luxury steamer that sank in 1872 in Lake Michigan, about 20 miles off the Wisconsin coast, after searching […]
We are on the cusp of the start of the seasonal water level rise on the Great Lakes. Snowmelt over the past few weeks has started the water level rise […]