A new construction project will restore 16 acres of wetlands and 2,000 feet of shoreline within Lake Erie’s Sandusky Bay near Sandusky, Ohio. It’s a fraction of the 11,000 linear […]
Oil and gas company officials continue cleaning up a crude oil and brine spill in the Pigeon River Country State Forest in Gaylord, Michigan, that turned out to be more […]
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
In the late 1970s, when most wildlife conservation programs in the United States focused almost exclusively on game species, a quiet but historic shift began in Minnesota. It was here that one of the nation’s first state programs dedicated to protecting so-called nongame wildlife emerged from butterflies
Michigan environmental regulators held a hearing Thursday night on a proposed permit to disturb 10 acres of wetlands for a $7 billion Oracle and OpenAI data center in Saline Township. […]
Nearly $315,000 in federal funding is headed to local groups across the Great Lakes region to step up control of invasive phragmites, an aggressive reed that overwhelms shorelines and wetlands. […]
Since first being detected in 2021, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza has had a dramatic impact on North America
A federal judge has ruled that an Elk Rapids, Michigan, food processing company illegally polluted wetlands and tributaries that drain to Elk Lake and ultimately to Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse […]
By Eric Freedman
Tiny pieces of moss can be crime-busters, says a study examining how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people, calculate how long ago someone died and – in a notorious Mason County case – try to locate the
A new study from Loyola University Chicago finds that muskrats – the humble, semi-aquatic rodents long overshadowed by beavers – may play a crucial role in restoring the health of […]
A project to restore Great Lakes coastal habitat includes rebuilding a barrier beach along the shoreline, re-establishing historic wetlands and clearing invasive cattails at Lynde Shores Conservation Area in Ontario. […]
Despite a 55% cut to its portion of H2Ohio funding, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is “still in the fight” to build, expand, or enhance wetlands as a means […]