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As climate change threatens to warm Michigan rivers, dam removal can drive temperatures down by several degrees overnight. An influx of state and federal money has boosted removal efforts, but advocates say more is needed.
The Little Manistee Watershed Conservation Council (LMWCC) sponsored a social survey to gather information about how people utilize and value the Little Manistee River.
Carol Thompson Lansing State Journal LANSING — Nicole Watson boarded the plane in Fairbanks, Alaska with delicate and peculiar cargo, a foam box marked "live animals" just small enough to fit under the seat on the long flight to Detroit. Inside the box were thousands of gooey globular fish eggs, the future of a species that vanished from Michigan streams a century ago and has since evaded attempts to restore it in its native home. Watson, a Michigan State University doctoral student, is part of a team of scientists working on a new effort to reintroduce the fish, Arctic grayli...
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Lexi Krupp reports on efforts to restore arctic grayling populations in Michigan In a dim, out-of-the-way corner of the state fish hatchery in Marquette are a few thousand skinny, grey fish, each no more than nine inches long. “They are skittish,” says Jim Aho, who runs the facility for the Department of Natural Resources. “Movement above them definitely puts stress on them, so they’re in a dark, quiet few tanks here.” They’re arctic grayling, known as nmégos in Ojibwe— a species that was once dominant in rivers and streams in northern Michigan, before they were wiped out from ...