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Northern Michigan University biology graduate student Mindy Kantola, back left, helps the Kitchel family plant a tree during Hiawatha Traditional Music Co-op’s celebratory tree planting in 2019. The Kitchel family, from left: Edith, Doug, Grace and Jamie. (Journal file photo by Cecilia Brown)
MARQUETTE The city of Marquette has again been designated with the Tree City USA honor for promoting and caring for trees within the community.
Marquette is among 124 Michigan communities, nine campuses, one health care institution and one utility recognized with a Tree City, Tree Campus, Tree Campus Healthcare or Tree Line USA designation for 2020.
“Michigan ranks eighth nationally in the number of communities with Tree City designations,” said Kevin Sayers, urban and community forestry specialist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, in a news release. “Trees are a very important part of the landscape in our cities, towns and villages. They add beauty
Michigan DNR conducted 200-plus inland fisheries surveys in 2020
How do changes in the shoreline habitat affect fish populations? How does recreational fishing affect inland fish populations? How does stocking influence angler success? Finding answers to questions like these is a big part of why the Michigan Department of Natural Resources does fisheries surveys – in fact, the DNR conducted 220 inland fisheries surveys last year alone.
In 2020, staff from eight DNR fisheries management units completed 125 surveys of inland lakes and 95 stream surveys, even in the face of the COVID pandemic. Anyone fishing those waters might have seen crews collecting key data on one of Michigan’s world-class fisheries. So, just what do crews look for?
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Neighbor s dog gets loose, kills rabbit in London Township
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a complaint from a London Township woman who said a neighbor’s dog that had run away from its home attacked and killed her rabbit Tuesday.
The woman told an animal control officer from Monroe County Animal Control she looked out a glass door at her home in the 11000 block of Ostrander Rd. and saw the two-year-old, female Chow mix biting the rabbit, which later died. She sent a photo of the attack to the animal control office. When the control officer went to the neighbor’s house, he met a trooper from the Michigan State Police and an officer from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources who were serving a warrant on the dog’s owner, a 21-year-old female. The dog ran out of the house when the trooper and officer opened a door to the home and were unable to corral the animal, an officer’s report said.