FishPass

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

After years of planning and legal delays, construction of the new FishPass project is underway.

More invasive species are knocking on the door of the Great Lakes, and in many cases they’re already here. But scientists are getting better at monitoring, controlling and preventing them.

By "denying leave to appeal," the state Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling that said the Traverse City Charter does not require a public vote before constructing the project.

Over time, people have caused extensive damage to rivers by scouring their banks with logs, channelizing them through towns and cutting them up with dams. In the last 50 years, scientists have discovered removing dams can vastly improve conditions in rivers. But not all dams can come down. Sometimes they are our greatest protection against invasive species.

Over time, people have caused extensive damage to rivers by scouring their banks with logs, channelizing them through towns and cutting them up with dams. In the last 50 years, scientists have discovered removing dams can vastly improve conditions in rivers. But not all dams can come down. Sometimes they are our greatest protection against invasive species.

Traverse City residents won’t be voting on the proposed FishPass project in November.That’s after city commissioners decided not to put the question on the ballot and instead continue with an appeal process in court.

A years-long effort to build an experimental fish ladder on the Boardman River in Traverse City is in jeopardy. That’s all because of a man who decided to…

Construction on the nearly $20 million FishPass project in Traverse City is on hold until May, at the earliest. That’s when a circuit court judge will…