wildlife

Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal released an article ranking the best national parks across the country. Ranked number one on the list as the best national park was Michigan’s Isle Royale. On today's episode, we talk with one of the co-authors' of the article to talk about their rankings, and what led to Michigan topping the charts.

Sleeping Bear Dunes, Pictured Rocks, the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, and the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge are expected to be hit by budget cuts.

Michigan's black bear population is growing. Officials from the Michigan DNR say there are more than 12,000 bears across the northern parts of the state.

Blue-spotted salamanders and other amphibian species migrate annually to unique habitats called vernal pools. The Superior Watershed Partnership plans to use grant money from the DNR to build tunnels for the salamanders to use, to protect them during their migration.

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.

The importance of teachers' back-to-school supply requests, techno music's legacy and the next generation of techno producers, and how aquatic invasive species are affecting lake life as we know it.

The Michigan Wildlife Council has released the Top 10 wildlife management successes.

How the SCOTUS affirmative action decision might further impact our schools, a visit to Washtenaw Dairy, a new Flint Lawsuit, and bird migration.

The USDA provides funding to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources which uses some of that money to kill beavers. The DNR believes beavers are destructive to trout streams.