Invasive Species

The City of Ann Arbor’s Department of Parks and Recreation is hosting "Love a Park Days" in November. WEMU’s Ana Longoria has more.

Engineers aim to keep invasive species out of the Great Lakes. Colin Jackson has more on an agreement between Michigan, Illinois, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Ann Arbor residents could soon start noticing smoke coming from some of the community’s parks and other nature areas. We get the details from WEMU’s Taylor Pinson.

The federal government has renewed an investment in the University of Michigan’s Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, or CIGLR. The funding renewal is for five years. WEMU’s Josh Hakala has more.

Washtenaw County is chock-full of non-native, invasive, plant species. In many cases, they pose a threat to native species and the health of the habitat that supports our wildlife and pollinators. There are also human implications. WEMU's David Fair discussed the progress being made toward local habitat restoration and expanding efforts to reintroduce native plant species with Doug Reith from the Washtenaw County Conservation District.

The brown marmorated stinkbug is in Washtenaw County and seems to be here to stay. The bugs are now an established nuisance. They invade homes in the…

Through the course of this week, Governor Rick Snyder has released some ambitious plans for environmental policy for his final year in office. WEMU’s…

Governor Rick Snyder says a new shipping lock in Joliet, Illinois is needed to stop Asian carp from making their way from the Mississippi River system to…

A new partnership has a plan to keep Lake Erie clean. The MI CLEAR group is made up of farmers, conservationists, environmental leaders, and more. Those…

If you want to win $700,000, you might be in luck--if you know how to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes. Governor Rick Snyder wants proposals for…