Environment
Collaboration helps Michigan, Wisconsin celebrate elk management milestones
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Elk in the Great Lakes region reached restoration milestones in 2018.
Environment
Piping plovers return to Lake Erie
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A single pair of the shorebirds nested along the lake last summer for the first time in 60 years. They’re an encouragement to the wildlife managers who are reclaiming the plover’s old habitat.
Environment
Fishery managers excited by lake trout’s not-so-picky palate
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Researchers say lake trout have flexible diets–calming fears that the resurgent species is competing with salmon for the dwindling supply of alewife in the Great Lakes.
Environment
Video: slow-motion sturgeon feeding
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Sturgeons project their jawbones from their skulls, creating the suction they need to vacuum food from lake beds.
Environment
Catch and release kills many fish
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A new study shows the conservation technique is fatal for some fish.
Environment
Scientists track prehistoric fish with 21st century satellites
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Science using high-tech methods is revealing secrets about a prehistoric fish.
Environment
Saginaw Bay perch populations up against the wall(eye)
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Walleye populations in Lake Huron and the Saginaw Bay have bounced back powerfully, just a few decades after they came close to disappearing. Some scientists worry that perch are paying the price.
Environment
Video: Great Lakes sturgeon repopulation efforts underway in Wisconsin
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Scientists in Wisconsin are raising the next generation of this endangered fish. Some of these sturgeon could someday grow to lengths of up to eight feet and weigh 800 pounds.
Environment
Foreign wasp could be recruited for bug battle
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The solution to an invasive stink bug may be it’s predator from back home
Environment
Foreign wasp could be recruited for bug battle
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The solution to an invasive stink bug may be it’s predator from back home