Tremendous wild berry-picking season reported across Michigan
Michigan’s delicious fruits of the forest offered bountiful harvests for wild berry pickers this year.
Record year for endangered Great Lakes piping plover nests, fledged chicks
2023 saw the most nesting pairs of Great Lakes piping plovers and the most fledged chicks.
Black bears causing a ruckus on Upper Peninsula’s Grand Island
National forest officials are warning visitors to the island to be prepared for possible bear encounters and to keep all personal items in their possession.
Michigan appellate judges side with 3M on state’s PFAS cleanup rules
State environmental regulators did not follow proper administrative procedure when they established groundwater cleanup standards for toxic PFAS chemicals, courts ruled.
Michigan’s top court clears scientific research in Boardman River to begin
Michigan Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal in a case that blocked the FishPass project in Traverse City.
Glass smasher in Marquette kept 1K tons from landfills over 2+ years
Glass bottles are processed into material that is used to sand roads in the winter.
‘Benny the Beard Fisher’ is the U.P.’s new resident riverside troll
Owners of an up-north campground have a major new art installation – a giant troll that is a character in a coming children’s book.
Taking out the trash on remote Beaver Island requires a drive
There is no curbside service on Beaver Island; everyone must bring their own trash and recycling to the transfer station.
Historic Upper Peninsula theater gets $3M in state budget for restoration
Old vaudeville theater in Negaunee with collapsed roof will be renovated with influx of state money.
On Lake Michigan, a giant water battery aids clean energy transition
Consumers Energy operates enormous pumped hydro storage facility in Ludington.
Wetlands and water quality: Beaver Island is a science hub
Researchers and students dive into Great Lakes science at CMU facility on Beaver Island.
Michigan gets control of 21 oil wells, $2.85 million in lawsuit settlement
State to use settlement money to clean up oil well sites, including two which leaked.
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