Michigan : MI Environment & Agriculture

Complex sets of environmental factors have interacted over the past 5,000 years to affect how changes in climate, temperature, relative precipitation, and the levels of Lake Michigan influence the preservation of archaeological sites in coastal sand dunes along Lake Michigan.

Michigan's Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore was established in 1966 to preserve one of the most exquisite freshwater coastal landscapes in North America. Located between Munising and Grand Marais on Lake Superior, the rugged coastline is anchored by the Pictured Rocks cliffs?soaring sandstone fortresses awash with natural pink, green, and brown pigments.

Most people recognize Michigan by its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula and the Great Lakes embracing the state. Underneath the earth's surface, however, is equally distinctive evidence of an exciting history.

The culmination of three decades of work by Michigan Natural Features Inventory ecologists, this essential guidebook to the natural communities of Michigan introduces the diverse terrain of a unique state.

voluntary program that helps farms of all sizes and all commodities voluntarily prevent or minimize agricultural pollution risks.

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"clearinghouse of information on farmland protection and stewardship. Affiliated with the National Agriculture Library... the site includes news items and links to reports, articles, and datasets."

Grand Valley State University - AWRI's mission is to integrate research, education, and outreach to enhance and preserve freshwater resources.

partnership that provides one place online for people to find information relating to the binational Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region of North America.

links science, people, and information, bridging the gap between producers and users of scientific information.

partnership among the Land Grant universities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and the NIFA National Integrated Water Quality Program (NIWQP).

Michigan Technological University

organization of 18 New York colleges and universities, with 9 affiliate campuses in Ontario, dedicated to collaborative research and education on the Great lakes.

exists to meet the Nation's need for scientific information for restoring, enhancing, managing, and protecting living resources and their habitats in the Great Lakes basin ecosystem.

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Northwestern MI College

The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic?

Central MI University

scientific organization made up of researchers studying the Laurentian Great Lakes, other large lakes of the world, and their watersheds

part of the National Sea Grant College network of 32 university-based Sea Grant programs in coastal states; affiliated with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry.

The Great Lakes inspire evocative language and hyperbolic metaphors, from the "sweet seas" of Samuel de Champlain to the "bold shores" of Henry R. Schoolcraft. Yet, the attitudes, values, and behaviors of settlers, both Native American and European, often reflect the utilitarian values of the Lakes and their resources. In this challenging study, Mark Sproule-Jones examines the history of the key uses of the Great Lakes, and the relative successes and failures of the institutions that govern the Lakes' resource management.

Find Your Way to Michigan's Most Beautiful Waterfalls Waterfalls create a feeling of serenity, a sense of restrained power. Their grandeur takes our breath away.