Wetlands

Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them back – by tricking them.

Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them back – by tricking them.

The City of Marquette closes a popular park road to allow hundreds of blue-spotted salamanders to migrate safely.

On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump said that he would rescind the Waters of the U.S. Rule, which outlines what kinds of water bodies...

Researchers who work in wetlands in Michigan are taking a new approach to invasive plants. They’re harvesting them for fertilizer and fuel.

The Next Idea In Michigan and across the country, wetlands are known as marshes, swamps, bogs, fens and pocosins. They are also known as threatened. A...

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has released its first status report on the wetlands in our state. You can think of wetlands as nature...

Frogs really sing in earnest after dark. They drink and breathe through their skin without a filter and are very sensitive to environmental changes....