Ellie Katz
Environment ReporterEllie Katz reports on science, conservation and the environment. Before joining IPR in June 2023, she had stints at Heritage Radio Network, FRQNCY Media, Stitcher and Michigan Public. Her work with IPR has been featured on NPR, The Indicator from Planet Money, Here & Now, Science Friday, Bridge Michigan and more.
Ellie first visited Interlochen and northern Michigan shortly after moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan from Texas in middle school. She's happy to have considered the state home ever since and even happier to be back at Interlochen.
You can reach her at ellie.katz@interlochen.org.
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Scientists think there's something about Tippy Dam that helps little brown bats survive white-nose syndrome. So what does the dam's sale mean for research access? -
Public comments are due by the end of the week after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a tunnel alternative last month. -
A citizens group is proposing its own idea for settling a legal battle between Peninsula Township and local wineries. -
A federal judge agreed with the groups that a local fruit processor is polluting groundwater, a wetland and a creek that connect to Elk Lake. -
Fish in Michigan’s inland lakes are shrinking because of climate change, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. -
A workshop in Gaylord will walk landowners through the tax deduction process. -
November 10, 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in a massive storm on Lake Superior. But just miles away, a few fishermen are struggling in the same storm — fighting for survival. -
The release follows years of planning and months spent carefully raising the fish, from which the City of Grayling got its name. -
They say they'll talk about reducing the damages after Peninsula Township considers their revised zoning rules, which were deemed unconstitutional by a judge this summer.
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With little pine left to harvest, foresters and sawmills worry what the next several years will look like until newly planted trees can replace what the ice storm took away.
