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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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. -
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. -
In October 1960, Prince Akihito of Japan visited Chicago for 21 hours. Chicago’s mayor presented the prince with a diplomatic gift: 18 bluegill. What happened next would change the underwater world of Japan forever. -
“Ideally, [commercial fishing] will continue,” says the nonprofit’s executive director. “I’m going to make people care. I want them to care. I want them to fight for it now.” -
Money is going to efforts to conserve waterfront in Elberta, restore Arctic grayling to rivers and reforest northern Michigan after the ice storm. -
There's concern that without a revenue increase, the state's fish stocking programs, which include species like salmon, steelhead and walleye, will be reduced. -
In our final installment of the season, here's tips for saving seeds from one of my favorite native flowers.
