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Staffing, morale concerns as Northern Michigan national parks prepare for summer

Sun, 05/25/2025 - 05:54 Interlochen Public Radio

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has approximately two-thirds of the seasonal staff it typically needs to welcome more than 1.5 million visitors over the next three busy months.

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Annual sea lamprey assessment to begin in UP next month

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 15:05 Great Lakes Commission

The annual work to cull sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes will begin in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in just under two weeks. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – […]

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The Good Thief?

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 05:15 Interlochen Public Radio

Tom Farnquist is in the business of preserving underwater artifacts and displaying them in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The problem is, a lot of those artifacts were technically stolen from the State of Michigan. And one day, the state notices.

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AmeriCorps cuts hit northern Michigan environmental work

Fri, 05/16/2025 - 06:00 Interlochen Public Radio

AmeriCorps provides paid community service jobs that span a wide range of fields, from disaster recovery to education.

Bills passed through state house would allow UP to keep gas generators

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 16:38 Interlochen Public Radio

Under Michigan's Clean Energy and Jobs Act the Upper Peninsula would be forced to shut down their natural gas-based RICE generators early, causing fees and potential job loss, lawmakers say. The bills would let the U.P. keep the generators until their expiration in 2050.

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The Longest Paddle

Fri, 05/09/2025 - 05:57 Interlochen Public Radio

After Traci Lynn Martin’s mom died, she knew she couldn’t keep putting off her dream: Becoming the first person to kayak around the Great Lakes in one year.

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Free pre-K now open to all families in northwest Michigan

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 13:00 Interlochen Public Radio

The previous income limit was lifted.

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A month after historic ice storms, hundreds of miles of Northern Michigan roads still “impassable”

Thu, 05/01/2025 - 16:08 Interlochen Public Radio

There are months of work ahead just to clear roads, an official with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says.

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After ice storm’s devastation, a long road ahead for those who rely on northern Michigan forests

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 13:59 Interlochen Public Radio

By some estimates, tens of millions of trees could be damaged.

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Between Myth and Migration

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 05:35 Interlochen Public Radio

Cougars are making a comeback. The iconic wildcat hasn’t had a breeding population in the Great Lakes states since the early 1900s, but now they’re moving east. Experts say they could be back soon. Some people swear they already are.