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Judy Allison's home is seen flooded in Cadillac last month. Allison said the home was built by her late husband's father in the 1940s. (Courtesy of Judy Allison)
Judy Allison
Northern Michigan cleans up after historic floods: ‘I just want to cry’
Emma George-Griffin | WCMU, Cristin Coppess | WCMU, Alvin (AJ) Jones | WCMU, Glen Arbor Sun staff, Krista Tacey-Cater | The Houghton Lake Resorter, Houghton Lake Resorter staff
Throughout northern Michigan, some residents’ homes remain inundated after last month’s historic flooding, while others struggle to find a way to clean up and try to return to normal.
A portrait of a passenger pigeon from 1908. By this point, wild passenger pigeons had already vanished. The last of the species, a captive pigeon named Martha, died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo. (credit: John Henry Hintermeister / Wikimedia Commons)
John Henry Hintermeister / Wikimedia Commons
POINTS NORTH: The Pigeons’ Last Passage
Ellie Katz
A pink salmon caught in a Norwegian river. Norway and other Nordic nations are trying to reduce invasive pink salmon populations, which have exploded in the last decade. European researchers are looking to the Great Lakes for answers, where pink salmon have made major adaptations to survive after being accidentally introduced to Lake Superior 70 years ago. (Courtesy: Eva Thorstad / Norwegian Institute for Nature Research)
Eva Thorstad
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Norwegian Institute for Nature Reseach
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How a ‘forgotten’ fish in the Great Lakes is bringing together researchers in Michigan and abroad
Ellie Katz
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