Building on a pollinator garden series, the Huron Bruce Nature club welcomed expert landscape horticulturist, Brian Folmer, to their May 26 meeting. Gardening has changed over the years due to environmental stress, and we are now learning to plant with the needs of pollinators such as bees, butterflies and hummingbirds
The Maitland Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA) is expressing significant concerns following the Province’s move to consolidate Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into nine regional entities. “We’re calling on the Province to halt this amalgamation plan and commit to improving the unique watershed-based conservation system we all benefit from in this province,”
By Akia Thrower
The 2025 State of the Birds report, an evaluation of U.S. birds by conservation organizations, showed a continued decline in bird populations across the nation. The decline is largely due to the habitat loss of wetlands.
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 City of Duluth’s Engineering division will launch a new Private Stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) Inspection and Maintenance Program for certain properties starting this spring. These BMPs help control […]
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