“Scientists estimate that more than 185 invasive species have entered the Great Lakes to date, and a new species is discovered every 28 weeks.”  –Alliance for the Great Lakes For information about how and why invasive species enter the Great Lakes,...

Playing Around the Great Lakes       I’m told that children learn through play.  From what I have experienced, I believe that adults learn through play also.  Our family has been playing in, on and around the Great Lakes most of our lives. We...

From the round surf-polished rocks of Lake Superior’s shore to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan, I have roamed and picked up stones: agates, pudding stones and some bearing copper or fossils.  And I hiked the alvars on the Door Peninsula and...

Ever since I was a child I have tried to imagine what the world would be like with no roads, no cars, no factories to poison the air, water earth. I have thought of the way things used to be near the Great Lakes when 500 year old pines scented the air...

You can fight city hall and win. It takes time and patience, but sometimes the results are spectacular. Years ago we lived across the street from the city park in Grand Haven, Michigan where the elm trees were sprayed with DDT to fight Dutch elm...