Great Lakes Now

April Episode Premiere Party
2025-04-28 20:00 - 20:30 (America/Detroit)
Join GLN Producer Adam Fox-Long for a look at one of the segments featured in the latest episode of Great Lakes Now and stick around for a conversation with experts to get your questions answered live.

Great Lakes Now Presents: Spring Foraging with Lisa M. Rose
2025-05-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit)
Join Great Lakes Now’s Anna Sysling and GLN resident forager and contributor Lisa M. Rose for a virtual live gathering all about foraging our way into spring! We’ll learn some tips and tricks about wild plants that promote health and vitality during the transition to warmer months in the Great Lakes region. As always, we’ll make room for questions and comments from our live audience.

Great Lakes Now Presents: Lake Huron Shipwrecks with Brendon Baillod
2025-05-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit)
Join Great Lakes Now for a live virtual event all about the fascinating maritime history and technology involved in uncovering shipwrecks of the Great Lakes. This time, we’re diving into some of the storied wrecks of Lake Huron. GLN’s Anna Sysling will be joined by Brendon Baillod of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Research Group. Bring your questions and see you there!

Great Lakes Blue Economy Virtual Town Hall
2025-06-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit)
Join the Great Lakes News Collaborative for a LIVE conversation about the state of the blue economy in the Great Lakes region. Great Lakes Now host Anna Sysling will moderate a panel of journalists discussing their reporting on the relationship between the region’s economy and its most abundant natural resource: water.
Featured guests include:

Lester Graham of Michigan Public
Kelly House of Bridge Michigan
Brett Walton of Circle of Blue
Fatima Syed of The Narwhal

Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Chris Cooper feat. Puddingstones
2025-06-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit)
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes. This time, they’ll focus on puddingstones with Madeline Sigler, a Michigan State University Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Doug Tallamy Talk @ Oakland University
2026-04-08 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Oakland Center , 312 Meadow Brook Rd, Rochester, Michigan
An Earth Month Celebration featuring information from student organizations, plant & seed giveaways, and a keynote talk by Douglas Tallamy, renowned conservation biologist and author of best-selling books Nature’s Best Hope and Bringing Nature Home.

11:00-11:30 Book signing + OU Student Organization Fair11:45-12 Introduction to OU Conservation Projects & Speaker12:00-1:00 Presentation by Doug Tallamy

Readers Club: Wilding | Isabella Tree
2026-04-29 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
PBS Books Readers Club welcomes British author and conservationist Isabella Tree to discuss her inspirational non-fiction book Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm. The episode premieres on April 29th at 8PM ET as a PBS Books Facebook Live event, on the PBS Books YouTube channel, pbsbooks.org, and the PBS app.

Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm chronicles the real-life experiences of Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell as they take on rewilding their 3,500-acre Knepp Castle Estate in Sussex, England. A land ravaged by centuries of farming, it was starting to fail, and along with it, the family’s sense of security. Inspired by a visit from an arboriculturist looking to save their old oak trees, Burrell and Tree decided to take a chance and change everything they were doing with the land. Through the reintroduction of native species both flora and fauna, this striking case of land revitalization proves there is way to allow the wild to thrive again.

As Tree reflects, “I think the only answer to eco anxiety is to get your hands dirty and do something. And the joy that can come from even transforming a window box… so that you’re now attracting night flying moths and hoverflies and all the forgotten pollinators, you’re making a difference. And that feels just so fantastic.”

Part personal memoir, part history lesson, and part biology lesson, Wilding is an uplifting and rare eco-success story. Isabella Tree does a magnificent job weaving together the many aspects of what it means to rewild. From the littlest bugs in the ground to large grazing animals, each species plays a vital role in bring balance to the environment. It is the true story of nature’s resilience when given a chance.

PBS Watch-Alike: Wilding on PBSWilding documents Europe’s most significant rewilding experiment, brought vividly to life from Isabella Tree’s celebrated book. Follow Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell as they abandon industrialized farming, which was destroying their land, and embark on an extraordinary journey to restore it to nature. With breathtaking wildlife cinematography and vivid recreations of the landscape’s past, the film reveals the ancient, symbiotic relationships between animals and the land that modern life has caused us to forget.

Available on PBS April 22nd, 2026, on pbs.org and the PBS App. Check local listings for broadcast dates and times.

Flyway City: Architecture for a Flourishing Ecosystem
2026-06-11 10:00 - 17:00 UTC
From June 11, 2026 to January 6, 2027.

This inspiring new exhibition, designed and co-curated by Studio Gang in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Center, aims to catalyze positive change on making cities safer and more welcoming for birds and diverse wildlife.
