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Foraged Fruit and Nuts: Wild Apples & Abundant Acorns
- by Lisa M. Rose

Autumn brings with it a bounty of fruits and nuts that often go unnoticed in our modern culinary landscape. Among the most abundant and overlooked are acorns and wild apples.

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Old Boats and New Adventures
- by Mila Murray

Heritage sailing on Lake Huron and a historic passenger ship returns to its former glory.

Cheryl Porter’s vision for the future of water
- by Great Lakes Now

With 28 years of experience in the water sector, Cheryl Porter shares her inspiring journey from junior chemist in Detroit to leading the American Water Works Association.

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Farmers turn to ‘predator-proof’ fences to deter wolves in northern Wisconsin
- by Wisconsin Public Radio

So far, no wolves have killed livestock within the fences on farms where they’ve been installed.

Cheryl Porter’s vision for the future of water
- by Great Lakes Now

With 28 years of experience in the water sector, Cheryl Porter shares her inspiring journey from junior chemist in Detroit to leading the American Water Works Association.

Michigan advocates hail ‘groundbreaking’ settlement to civil rights complaint over hazardous waste facility
- by Planet Detroit

New requirements to consider cumulative impacts in hazardous waste facility licensing could represent a shift in state permitting practices.

Foraged Fruit and Nuts: Wild Apples & Abundant Acorns
- by Lisa M. Rose

Autumn brings with it a bounty of fruits and nuts that often go unnoticed in our modern culinary landscape. Among the most abundant and overlooked are acorns and wild apples.

Great Lakes Moment: Ten natural wonders of The Great Lakes Way
- by John Hartig

Get your bicycle or kayak ready and consider adding these close-to-home natural wonders to your Great Lakes adventure bucket list.

Points North: A Natural Ending
- by Interlochen Public Radio

Peter Quakenbush’s dream is to create a conservation burial forest – a place that would both preserve the woods and give people the option to be buried in nature. But not everyone is on board with that idea.

‘These are not your lands to give away’: 6 First Nations take Ontario to court over mining law
- by The Narwhal

Indigenous communities in Ontario are flooded with mining claims that chip away at their territories. It’s a “racist, colonialist” system, the lawyer leading a new court case said.

Nibi Chronicles: A conversation about Ojibwe history in Fur Trade Nation
- by Staci Lola Drouillard

On Carl Gawboy’s new book Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic History and how it’s “a field guide to the Ojibwe.”

Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows
- by The Conversation

New research shows that Americans have positive feelings toward nature but also detects strong undertones of longing, guilt and worry.

Southeast Michigan facility will soon house waste from the Manhattan Project
- by Michigan Public

A southeast Michigan waste disposal site will soon be home to nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop an atomic bomb.

U.S. Movement to Limit CAFO Pollution Emboldened by Michigan Court Ruling
- by Circle of Blue

State Supreme Court strengthens authority to prevent mammoth tide of manure from contaminating water.

Michigan aims to tackle clean energy goals in Upper Peninsula
- by Interlochen Public Radio

As part of the state’s energy transition, the Public Service Commission has to pay special attention to the Upper Peninsula and the natural gas plants that went online there just five years ago.

 

The Great Lakes Now monthly television program is produced by Detroit PBS in partnership with a network of PBS affiliates around the region. Shooting on location in eight states and Canada, the magazine-style show brings viewers stories about the recreational, economic, scientific, political and environmental issues related to the Great Lakes and drinking water.

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