Resources
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Smart Shorelands: Planning Your Nearshore Garden
Published on January 4, 2024
Extending your lakefront garden into the water opens an exciting new opportunity to enhance your property’s beauty and function. -
Smart Shorelands: Keep it Clean to Protect Frogs and Toads
Published on January 4, 2024
Frogs and toads are great companions for your yard and garden. They eat pests like beetles, cutworms and slugs and are an important food source for a variety of other animals including herons, mink, foxes and fish. -
Smart Shorelands: Soak Up the Rain with a Smart Rain Garden
Published on January 4, 2024
Beautify your yard and neighborhood while helping the environment with a rain garden. -
Smart Shorelands: Stormwater Solutions for Protecting Your Waterfront
Published on January 4, 2024
Not only can smart stormwater practices improve water quality, they can also enhance the natural beauty of your landscape, improve wildlife habitat, and conserve water. -
Smart Shorelands: Waterfront Plants to Enhance Your Shoreline
Published on January 3, 2024
Plants that grow in, along, and just outside water play an important role in protecting water quality and providing habitat for many water loving critters. -
Firewood Heating and Treatment Technologies
Published on December 8, 2023
Technologies to sanitize firewood and prevent invasive insect spread. -
New and innovative technologies for firewood sanitation
Published on December 7, 2023
New firewood treatment technologies. -
Online Program Increases Stewardship of Inland Lakes
Published on October 27, 2023
The Introduction to Lakes Online course equips residents, decision-makers and local leaders to address management concerns by increasing lake literacy and creating peer and resource connections. -
A Tale of Two Invaders: Tree of Heaven and Spotted Lanternfly
Published on October 2, 2023
Locating and managing tree of heaven is a key aspect of dealing with spotted lanternfly and reducing the impacts of this invader in North America. -
What You Need to Know About Michigan’s Ticks
Published on May 23, 2023
Learn what to expect when entering a forest, methods of tick identification, ways to avoid tick bites, as well as information on Lyme disease.