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From fishing, a better way forward

Cole Holborn is offered homemade flys from a taklebox while visiting the Au Sable River on July 28, 2025. (Photo: Michael Livingston/IPR News)
Cole Holborn is offered homemade flys from a taklebox while visiting the Au Sable River on July 28, 2025. (Photo: Michael Livingston/IPR News)

Last week, dozens of canoe teams made their way down the Au Sable River in an all-night marathon. But come morning, all that remains is the trash that people left behind.

One conservation group is continuing a decade-long program to clean the river — while also teaching troubled kids to value the pristine waters.


Host: Ed Ronco
Editing: Claire Keenan-Kurgan
Music: Palms Down by Blue Dot Sessions.

Michael Livingston covered the area around the Straits of Mackinac — including Cheboygan, Charlevoix, Emmet and Otsego counties — from 2022 to 2025, through Report for America.
Ed Ronco is IPR's news director and the local host of "Morning Edition," as well as the "Up North Lowdown" daily news podcast.