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AuthorsClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsHabitat RestorationNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekWater Quality and Restoration EffortsScience Says What? What’s up with dissolved organic carbon (AKA why is my local stream murky?)
-If you’ve noticed your local waterway turning a deeper shade of brown over the past few decades, you’re not alone. Scientists in the Great Lakes region have noticed the same thing.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageForests and PlantsHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesLake SuperiorLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsScience, Technology, ResearchStaci Lola DrouillardWisconsinNibi Chronicles: Greeting Old Man Maple during the Sap Boiling Moon
-A modest sugar bush on Lake Superior’s North Shore offers more than a sweet treat.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFrogs, salamanders, and fairy shrimp are appearing at a vernal pool near you
-Vernal pools in forests are critical to a number of species, including wood frogs and newts. Not all vernal pools are protected from destruction.
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AuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCitizen ScienceFeature HomepageForests and PlantsLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioProtectResearch, Data and TechnologyScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekScience Says What? How 5th-graders counting plants can lead to positive change
-These young researchers are participating in citizen science — the public voluntarily helping to conduct scientific research.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsHabitat RestorationLake HuronLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsMulti-million dollar restoration projects proposed for the Saginaw Bay watershed; paid with settlement money from corporate polluters
-Ten restoration projects have been proposed, including wetlands and other wildlife habitats.
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AuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDetroitDetroit RiverFeature DetroitFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsHabitat RestorationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganNewsProtectRegionResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsGreat Lakes Moment: The event that saved Humbug Marsh
-Humbug Marsh is an internationally important wetland because of its ecological impact on the Detroit River corridor and the Great Lakes Basin.
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AuthorsBooks, Authors, Art and MusicCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeFeature HomepageForests and PlantsHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesLake SuperiorMinnesotaNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchStaci Lola DrouillardNibi Chronicles: “The trees of our homeland”
-The Ojibwe word for the paper birch is wiigwaasi-mitig — or Nimishoomis wiigwaas — Grandfather Birch.
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AuthorsBeaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and SailingCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsI Speak for the FishKathy JohnsonLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchTourismWater Quality and Restoration EffortsI Speak for the Fish: And the survey says…
-Doom and gloom coverage of the Great Lakes’ underwater realm has unfairly skewed the public’s perception.
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APChicagoClimate ChangeDetroitFeature DetroitFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsHabitat RestorationIllinoisLatest NewsMichiganNewsProtectRecreation and TourismResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsExtinctions, shrinking habitat spur ‘rewilding’ in cities
-Animal and plant species are dying off at an alarming rate. Their plight is stirring calls for “rewilding” places where they thrived until driven out by development, pollution and climate change.
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AdvocacyCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationForests and PlantsHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchNonprofit buys 31,000 forested acres by Copper Harbor to keep land public
-The Nature Conservancy, a global environmental group, has paid a New York hedge fund more than $27 million for part of the land, with another purchase to come.
