Ben Ratner2021-04-02T12:45:49-04:00March 12, 2021| For ice fishermen on northern Michigan’s frozen lakes, it’s easy to feel like climate change is a world away. But it’s only a matter of time before a warming planet transforms the tradition. By Ben Ratner Amid the frozen Michigan fields—past the homemade signs for hubcaps, hard cider, and firewood—lies Houghton Lake. Surrounded by forest and farmland, it is one hundred miles from the state capitol and two hundred from the state’s population centers. The lake borders a town of four thousand people and a “census-designated p...