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  Feeling the burn: Wildfires increasingly threaten US lakes

  Published on July 15, 2019

  According to a team of scientists led by Ian McCullough, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University, U.S. lakes are facing a growing threat: wildfires.

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  Tariffs lead to creative supply chains

  Published on June 26, 2019

  MSU scholars apply a new, more holistic way to examine global agricultural trade to better understand what’s going on when a country as enormous as China develops a big appetite for soybeans.

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  MSU researchers receive Chandler-Misener Award

  Published on June 14, 2019

  Three MSU researchers from the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife are part of a team that has won the Chandler-Misener Award.

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  Scientists defend headwater protections

  Published on May 30, 2019

  Scientists, including MSU's Dana Infante, rally to put science back at the forefront of the nation's revised protections of streams and their valuable ecosystems.

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  Rajendra Bird Sanctuary inspires creation of new undergraduate course

  Published on May 23, 2019

  A new undergraduate course in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife explored the use of art as a way to communicate science, with a focus on promoting the Rachana Rajendra Neotropical Migrant Bird Sanctuary.

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  Study scrutinizes global tourism’s push and pull

  Published on May 21, 2019

  Tourists have become international jetsetters, bringing the promise of prosperity, threats to the nature they come to experience and lots of questions about how to strike a balance. The key: What drives tourism?

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  CANR names new leader of international programs

  Published on May 20, 2019

  Karim Maredia has been named a senior global scholar and the director of agriculture and natural resources international programs in the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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  MSU F&W scientists contributors to UN sustainability report

  Published on May 9, 2019

  Two MSU sustainability scientists contributed to a landmark United Nations report which finds an unprecedented biodiversity loss, and calls for transformative changes to balance nature conservation and economic development.

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  Grading conservation: Which reserves defend forests?

  Published on May 7, 2019

  Lands that shelter forests have value often readily tallied by developers, but until now it’s been more difficult to prove the success of protecting those forested lands in pursuit of sustainability. That can put conservationists on the defense.

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  Diving deep into water and energy trade-offs

  Published on April 30, 2019

  Two papers by MSU scientists begin challenging a more simplistic, input/output view of natural resources in favor of a way that better reflected how the world really works.

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  CANR recognizes faculty and academic promotions

  Published on April 19, 2019

  The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources annually recognizes faculty and academic promotions.

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  MSU awarded Big Cats Initiative grant from National Geographic

  Published on April 15, 2019

  The National Geographic Big Cats Initiative has awarded a grant for lion research and conservation to MSU's Snares to Wares Initiative in Uganda.

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  MSU, Great Lakes Fishery Commission name research network director

  Published on April 4, 2019

  Christopher Vandergoot, currently a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, will become the new director of the Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System (GLATOS).

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  Book Review: The Grand Food Bargain And the Mindless Drive for More

  Published on March 26, 2019

  The Grand Food Bargain, written by Dr. Kevin Walker, an adjunct professor in the Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, discusses the consequences of quantity over quality when it comes to food.

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  Energy stealthily hitches ride in global trade

  Published on March 21, 2019

  Fulfilling the world’s growing energy needs summons images of oil pipelines, electric wires and truckloads of coal. But MSU research shows a lot of energy moves nearly incognito, embedded in the products, and leaves its environmental footprint home.