Stories tagged: "national parks"

Michigan Life The Arcadia Creek Festival Place, a park in downtown Kalamazoo.
Michigan Life It’s Parks and Rec Month, and Michigan’s Here to Help Communities Restore Their Local Beauty

Local parks that took a beating during the pandemic, but using spare COVID relief funds, Michigan is coming to the rescue of parks departments statewide.

Katelyn Kivel Katelyn Kivel July 14, 2021 11:11 am EDT
Michigan Life In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, provided by the National Park Service, a 4-year-old female gray wolf emerges from her cage as it is released at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. Wolf pups have been spotted again on Isle Royale, a hopeful sign in the effort to rebuild the predator species' population at the Lake Superior national park, scientists said Monday, July 12, 2021.
Michigan Life Wolf Populations Rebounding on Michigan’s Isle Royale

Two litters of wolf pups likely raised Isle Royale's population to over a dozen. That's great news for the national park's strained ecosystem.

Associated Press Associated Press July 14, 2021 10:35 am EDT
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Michigan Life 18 Things You Didn’t Know About Michigan’s National Parks

Haunted woods, shipwreck graveyards, prehistoric lava and the world’s most important wolf puppies—Michigan’s national parks have more history than you might have known.

Lisa Green Lisa Green July 13, 2021 1:37 pm EDT

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Looking down from Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island with a view of rolling grassy hill to the port at the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Environment ‘The Greatest Bass Fishing in the World’: Michigan Plans Historic Investment in Public Parks
Image via Shutterstock Health 1 in 4 Rural Michigan Hospitals Is in Danger of Closing, Even During a Pandemic. Here’s Why.
Michigan Life A 2021 Michigan Beer Lovers Bucket List: Must-Try Beers, Breweries, and Locales
A gray wolf pictured during his first day in his enclosure. The gray wolf or grey wolf, also known as the timber wolf or western wolf, is a canine native to the wilderness and remote areas of Eurasia and North America. Michigan Life Michigan’s Gray Wolves Have Long Been Protected and Studied. Now They’re at the Center of a Political Battle.