LANSING — An invasive insect increasingly threatens one of the most important trees in Michigan and elsewhere in the Great Lakes region for storing the carbon that causes global warming. Researchers have found that eastern hemlocks felled by the invasive woolly adelgid could emit 4.5 tons ...
As the metal storm door clicked shut behind me, I almost immediately sensed the mildness of the air meeting my face, warm for a late autumn’s evening. The wind was dead or at least fast asleep. Soft glowing light shone through the windows of the living room, diffused by curtains that hung like translucent gossamer, out into the snow where it flowed and pooled around the trunks of the maple trees. The silence was profound and powerful. I soaked it up like a deep breath of fresh air. The only creatures stirring were a couple of flying squirrels that leapt from one of the bird ...
“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessing that continue to surround us.” . ” — James E. Faust Plenty of birds in the Lower Harbor in Marquette have made the new pier a blessing to birders. There has been a wide variety of waterfowl from ducks to grebes. The new ...
LANSING — A deer with chronic wasting disease has been found in Ogemaw County — a county that had never seen the disease before. And that worries the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Showing zombielike symptoms, the deer was in its final stages of the sickness: drooling, ...
With the spirit of thanksgiving blowing across the landscape this week, pushed by a cold Canadian wind, I was reminded recently of something I have been truly thankful for over many years, though it’s not something I think about in detail too often. My recollections began when talking with ...
MARQUETTE — New research from the Voyageurs Wolf Project in northern Minnesota — a collaborative team that includes a Northern Michigan University professor and two alumni — sheds light on how humans are having a profound impact on wolf-deer relationships by altering forest ...
