In a Dec. 19 statement, Attorney General Dana Nessel said inspections are “vital to holding bad actors accountable and protecting Michigan’s wetlands and natural resources.” “I am pleased ...
With the help of a camera-mounted drone and direction from her advisor, Dr. Adam Mathews, assistant professor of geography, Gilbert is getting a bird’s eye view of Michigan’s interdunal wetlands at ...
Pre-industrialization, much of Michigan was covered in wetlands that served as nature’s sponges, absorbing rainfall. But as population and industries grew, large swaths were filled in for farms and ...
The upper Midwest, which in the report also includes Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska, has about 30 million acres of wetlands. Floods are the most ...
Photo 1: Ben Eiler (undergraduate field assistant in Schriever lab, person without waders) and students in Wetland Ecology (BIOS 5515) taking water quality measurements. Photo 2: Maxwell McNeill, ...
Gary Groff fondly remembers hunting all day on his grandfather’s land as a boy. “For all my dad’s life, he could not believe that I could go out there before daylight and come back after dark,” he ...
New aerial imagery was collected, interpreted, and classified for Phragmites identification, effectiveness of herbicide treatment, and wetland restoration ... in 2011-12 by Wisconsin DNR and Saginaw ...
Michigan Tech is superbly located in an area of high wetland abundance and diversity, facilitating both research and instruction. The proximity and diversity of wetlands is what allows the Wetlands ...