conservation

Today, a Michigan economist who studies consumer habits talks about what’s going on this holiday season, and the outlook for next year. Also, ecologist David Strayer pulls back the curtain on the most interesting ecosystem you’ve never seen on a poster: life in fresh water.

Robin Michigiizhigookwe Clark is the first Anishinaabe woman to serve on the Michigan’s Natural Resource Commission.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has been working to secure a conservation easement in the western Upper Peninsula. Recently awarded grants worth one million dollars will help with the project.

A new wildlife tracking tower in Ann Arbor will track migratory birds, bats, and butterflies. The tower fills an important gap in a statewide network of towers.

The federally threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake is Michigan's only venomous snake species. The John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids is working to preserve the species with field monitoring and captive breeding. Michigan has the most eastern massasaugas out of all the states where they're found.

How to protect yourself from the wildfire smoke. Then, green burials in West Michigan and revisiting a culinary prison education project in Coldwater, MI.

Chances are you've seen a Poweshiek skipperling butterfly and not even known it. But the moth-like insects are rapidly disappearing from their native Midwestern prairies.

Today, we revisited some stories about our pleasant peninsula, and people working to preserve it. We heard about the use of plastic bags, Cheboygan County's sturgeon guard, and life in Michigan's vernal pools.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed the migratory monarch butterfly as endangered. University of Michigan ecology professor Mark Hunter, who studies monarch populations, said this addition to the list is crucial for change.

Until recently, Traverse City and the surrounding area have seemed like a secret jewel of natural beauty. Now, the secret's out.