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Environmental studies and sustainability major John Frye is the owner of Dancing Crane Farm, a 20-acre operation in nearby Skandia, Mich. He and his wife grow eight different crops and operate a coffee business out of the farm. Read more about Frye and his farm here. |
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As part of his work in GC337 (computer cartography), Anthony Gerzetich put up new and improved trial maps out at the Blueberry Ridge cross country ski trails (Sands Township, Marquette) as a service to the local skiers. The map is available for
NMU students, paired with the University of Michigan Biological Station and NMU adjunct instructor Teresa Bertossi from the U.P. Land Conservancy, banded young piping plovers. These birds are an endangered species that spends a short time in the Great Lakes region.
Susy Ziegler is department head of the Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Department. She studies changes in northern forests of eastern North America. A new research interest of hers is biodiversity and conservation in the boreal forests in the Upper Great Lakes region and Scandinavia. Read her
During the winter, EEGS professor John Anderton led a snowshoe tour at Presque Isle park. The tour explained the geographic history of the area and the impact humans have had on it.