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  Water Quality

  MSU Extension works with community leaders to create water-protection strategies, landowners and industry to reduce risks of water pollution, and state agencies to develop water quality information systems.

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  Learn about lakes, streams, and watersheds with MSU Extension

  Published on April 24, 2020
  Whether you want to dip your toes or take a deep dive, we have an educational experience for you.

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  Bay City students experiment with robotics, food science, watershed dynamics and more

  Published on December 16, 2015
  Science Night encourages students, parents to explore sciences.

• Onsite wastewater treatment systems programs

  Published on January 25, 2016
  Understanding how a household wastewater treatment system works can help protect an individual’s health and the environment.

• Youth learning and leadership through water science and community watershed studies

  Published on September 27, 2012
  As the new school year gets underway, teachers and students in northeast Michigan are working alongside community partners to study local watersheds making Lake Huron connections through 4-H20 and NOAA B-WET water education programs.

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  Overlay zoning districts can be a valuable tool

  Published on September 15, 2023
  Overlay zoning districts is a valid tool in some conditions. But be careful not to overuse it when more traditional zoning techniques can do the job.

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  MSU scientists eying environmental conservation through precision agriculture

  Published on June 19, 2020
  Representatives from Michigan State University and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are interested in how precision agriculture technologies can benefit environmental conservation.

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  National Invasive Species Awareness Week: Parrot feather

  Published on February 24, 2015
  Learn more about the parrot feather, an aquatic invasive species in Michigan, and what you can do about it.

• Planning natural shoreline landscaping on your inland lake

  Published on March 30, 2017
  Through careful planning, lakeshore landscaping can provide both a finished well-manicured look and adequate erosion protection.

• Youth foster coastal tourism opportunities in northeast Michigan (Part 2)

  Published on December 20, 2012
  Northeast Michigan communities leverage place-based education strategies to engage local schools and students as valued partners in advancing coastal tourism and community development opportunities.

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  Tips for improving the water quality performance of conservation drainage practices

  Published on October 10, 2022
  Learn which pipe property improves the water quality performance of saturated buffers, denitrifying bioreactors and phosphorus removal structures.

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  Tribal stewards: A river restoration for the record books

  Published on March 6, 2023
  In 2011, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians received funds from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to plan a restoration project on the Dowagiac River.

• Place-based education building tomorrow’s communities

  Published on May 25, 2016
  Youth across northeast Michigan are impacting and changing their communities through Great Lakes place-based stewardship projects.

• Lake communities, organizations can partner to protect lakes

  Published on February 28, 2013
  Help is available from local governments and other sources to protect inland lakes from sediment and nutrient pollution, and degradation. It is important to find the right kind of partnership agreement for a community’s needs.

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  Michigan State researchers lead effort on PFAS crisis

  Published on February 1, 2020
  Michigan has the most contamination sites in the nation, and scientists are working to learn more about the little-known contaminants.

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  MSU Extension staff receive Coast Guard search and rescue award

  Published on February 28, 2014
  MSU Extension staff members were recognized by the Coast Guard for their roles in rescuing two people last summer on the Detroit River.

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  Growing up Green documentary explores Great Lakes place-based education

  Published on March 31, 2014
  Michigan youth and Great Lakes stewardship are at the center of new place-based education documentary airing on PBS stations throughout April.

• Grand Rapids sewer system upgrades improve water quality, problems remain for Grand River Watershed

  Published on November 28, 2012
  Recent study of Grand River fecal contamination found ‘no risk’ levels of human sewage in Ottawa County waters. City of Grand Rapids’ CSOs have been all but eliminated, but upstream tributaries continue to contribute fecal contamination to the Grand River.

• Now is the time to learn your plants and explore opportunities for citizen science on your lake

  Published on October 28, 2013
  Resources and volunteer training programs are available to help you identify and manage aquatic plants. You can also learn to monitor lake health for the long-term benefit of your lake.

• Two new Michigan Sea Grant educational tools focus on our Great Lakes

  Published on October 28, 2013
  Teaching Great Lakes Science and Great Lakes FieldScope are two new online tools to learn more about our Great Lakes at home or in the classroom.

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  The 2017 Lake St. Clair Fisheries Workshop will emphasize habitat restoration

  Published on March 30, 2017
  Interested in harmful algal blooms, habitat restoration, or the status of the Lake St. Clair Fishery? Learn more at the Lake St. Clair Fisheries Workshop.