conservation

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Under the agreement with the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, nearly 500 acres will be permanently protected and the YMCA Hayo-Went-Ha Camps will gain millions to put toward needed maintenance of its historic facilities.

Passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird in North America. But in 1914, they went extinct. Most of their last nesting grounds hugged the Great Lakes. What was it like to experience these birds? And what are we left with when we lose a species?

Money is going to efforts to conserve waterfront in Elberta, restore Arctic grayling to rivers and reforest northern Michigan after the ice storm.

The owls were born in the wild earlier this spring.

The money was slotted for stream restoration and farmland preservation across the region.

One has funding delayed on nearly half its projects.

This is the first “organization-led” land purchase in the conservancy’s more than 30-year history.

River stocking could save whitefish. Scientists in northern Michigan are still trying to figure out the best way to do it.

After more than a century, tribes will reintroduce the fish to three northern Michigan rivers later this year.