June 26, 2023
SUMMER ENVIRONMENTAL & HEALTH PACKAGE
CNS Budget
To: CNS Editors
From: Eric Freedman
http://news.jrn.msu.edu/capitalnewsservice/
Welcome to the first summer 2023 package of Michigan-focused environmental and health stories in collaboration with our partner Great Lakes Echo.
CNS looks forward to serving you with new correspondents and new stories in the fall of 2023.
For technical problems, contact CNS technical manager Eryn Ho at (616) 485-9295, hoeryn@msu.edu.
For other matters, contact Eric Freedman at (517) 256-3873; freedma5@msu.edu
Here is your file:
GREAT LAKES CHAMPS: A new book by the former head of the U.S.-Canada Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge highlights the importance of grassroots environmental activists in fighting pollution in the Great Lakes region, including contaminated hotspots in the Detroit River, River Raisin, Rouge River and Muskegon Lake. By Jada Vasser. FOR PLANET DETROIT, DETROIT, WKTV, MONROE, ADRIAN, BLISSFIELD, HOLLAND, OCEANA, LUDINGTON AND ALL POINTS.
w/GREAT LAKES CHAMPS HARTIG : John Hartig, the retired director of the U.S.-Canada Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, North America’s only international refuge. Credit: University of Windsor.
w/GREAT LAKES CHAMPS COVER: Credit: Michigan State University Press
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FREE SWIM LESSONS : Free swimming lessons for children in Southeast Michigan are part of a larger effort to reduce drownings in the Great Lakes. There have been 15 so far this year and 1,170 since 2010. Inconsistent red flag warnings such as those at state and local beaches on Lake Michigan also confuse swimmers about whether water conditions are unsafe. We talk with the founders of the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, a swim instructor, a DNR expert and a woman whose grandchildren are taking lessons in Howell. By Ashley Zhou. FOR DETROIT, FOWLERVILLE, HOLLAND, PLANET DETROIT, WKTV, MANISTEE, OCEANA COUNTY, BENZIE COUNTY, LEELANAU, TRAVERSE CITY, PETOSKEY, HARBOR SPRINGS, CHEBOYGAN, LUDINGTON AND ALL POINTS.
FREE SWIM LESSONS PHOTO: Children take turns falling off the edge of the pool with Mia Dodd’s support, teaching them how to safely enter the pool. Credit: Ashley Zhou
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NATURE CAN NURTURE: Tucked away in the center of Michigan State’s campus is the nation’s oldest university botanical garden – and a site of the emerging practice of horticulture therapy. The 150-year-old Beal Botanical Garden is a “healing space” where “pretty much everything we do is horticulture therapy.” By Anna Lionas. FOR ALL POINTS.
w/NATURE CAN NURTURE SIGN: One of the Nurture Your Roots locations in the Beal Botanical Garden and the pocket journal where visitors can write down their experiences in the garden guided by the program. Credit: Anna Lionas
w/NATURE CAN NURTURE BUTTERFLY: 4-H Butterfly Garden on the MSU campus. Credit: Anna Lionas
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RATTLESNAKES MENU: What’s on the menu today? Yummy! If you’re an eastern massasauga rattlesnake in the Lower Peninsula, the main course is likely to be small mammals like meadow voles and masked shrews, with an occasional side order of bird and snake, according to a Grand Valley State team that did field research in Montmorency, Crawford, Lenawee, St. Joseph, Oakland, Manistee, Barry, Kalamazoo and Alcona counties and on Bois Blanc Island in Lake Huron east of Mackinac Island. By Eric Freedman. FOR BLISSFIELD, MANISTEE, MONTMORENCY, ALCONA, STURGIS, THREE RIVERS, CRAWFORD COUNTY, DETROIT, MONROE, LUDINGTON, ALPENA, CHEBOYGAN, SAULT STE. MARIE AND ALL POINTS.
w/RATTLESNAKE PHOTO: The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service classifies the eastern massasauga rattlesnake as a threatened species. Credit: Michigan Natural Features Inventory
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SLEEPING BEAR DUNES: A Frankfurt man pleaded not guilty to federal charges of vandalism and tampering that allegedly damaged the Platte River through Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. By Eric Freedman. FOR LEELANAU, TRAVERSE CITY AND ALL POINTS. w/ SLEEPING BEAR DUNES WITH DOCK: Credit: Pure Michigan
w/SLEEPING BEAR DUNES WITH PEOPLE: Credit: National Park Service
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