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  • Learn to build a rain garden!

    Published on May 8, 2025
    Join us June 10, 2025, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM in Dimondale, MI, for a rain garden workshop for beginners.

  • Identifying native and invasive aquatic plants can be easy with a phone app

    Published on May 6, 2025
    After collecting information, reporting and sharing it will help add to the knowledge of plant life in Michigan’s lakes.

  • Great Lakes Water Life database features native flora and fauna across the basin

    Published on May 6, 2025
    The Great Lakes Water Life (GLWL) hosts a broad range of ecological information and tools for use by environmental researchers and the public.

  • Ringing in spring with a peep! Getting to know the spring peeper

    Published on April 23, 2025
    Don’t be fooled by its small stature—Michigan’s smallest frog also happens to be the loudest.

  • CANR honors Filice, Warwick and Wolfe as 2025 Global Scholars in Extension

    Published on April 22, 2025
    The CANR has named Paige Filice, Alexa Warwick, Ph.D., and Samantha Wolfe as the 2025 Global Scholars in Extension. The scholars will be honored at the CANR Faculty and Staff Awards on May 8

  • Detroit River habitat projects nearing completion

    Published on April 7, 2025
    Projects at Hennepin Marsh, Sugar Island and the Belle Isle Flatwoods were recently completed.

  • Springtime means smelt! But how do we know it’s safe to eat?

    Published on April 2, 2025
    Changes in environmental practices, regulations, and control of pollution over the past 50 years have reduced concerns about eating fish.

  • Spring brings spawning fish into West Michigan streams, and you can help to monitor spawning runs in local creeks

    Published on March 12, 2025
    Michigan Sea Grant is working with Shedd Aquarium, John Ball Zoo, and GVSU to learn more about migration cues for a little-known fish species, and you can be a part of it.

  • Did you know the Great Lakes have three different Ordinary High Water Marks?

    Published on March 9, 2025
    Determining where the Great Lakes water's edge is can be a challenge. An Ordinary High Water Mark (OHWM) helps distinguish and categorize different areas near the Great Lakes.

  • Skippers and super skippers: What do small steelhead tell us about future runs?

    Published on March 9, 2025
    Last year’s steelhead run had many anglers concerned about steelhead populations, and the Michigan River Steelhead Program is documenting how young stocked and wild fish might translate to brighter days ahead.

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