Oct 27 2007
News Digest: 10/27
The Flint Journal has an article about plans for a Genesee County-wide trail system:
http://www.mlive.com/news/flintjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-47/119342281350000.xml&coll=5
The Bay City Times published a report on a new dredge spoils site on Saginaw Bay. Our region’s coastline is just littered with these maritime dump sites:
http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1193415304116240.xml&coll=4
The Muskegon Chronicle has a neat report about a new park complex and walkway in Ottawa County’s Lake Michigan dunes area:
http://www.mlive.com/news/chronicle/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1193411720306370.xml&coll=8
The Monroe Evening News reports that DTE will restore a section of riverbank along the River Raisin near the DTE Monroe power plant to a more natural condition. One day I would like to see where the two great natural features of Monroe County meet.
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071027/NEWS01/110270041/-1/RSSNEWS
The Evening News also has an article about a public meeting this Monday at 6PM to discuss plans to kill the excessive vegetation in the River Raisin:
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071027/NEWS01/110270043/-1/RSSNEWS
The Brooklyn Exponent has news about a new invasive species arriving in Michigan’s inland lakes - the starry stonewort:
The Detroit Free Press has a small article about how some once-important names could be lost if Detroit completes its plan to sell 92 city parks:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710260393
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710260392
Steve Pollick of the Toledo Blade has a FASCINATING article about bears in Ohio. You have to read this:
A young, 100-pound male bear, or boar, was seen in western Lucas County two years ago. It was thought to be a wanderer from southern Michigan and eventually it was struck and killed by a motor vehicle.
Can you believe it? A bear sighting was confirmed in Lucas County? That’s basically Toledo. And if the bear came to Lucas from Michigan, that means it was in Monroe, Lenawee or Hillsdale Counties. FASCINATING.
The article has a great map of Ohio counties in which bears have been spotted since 1993. It is quite surprising:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071021/SPORTS08/71021016
BTW, we can add this to the wolf from Wisconsin that was found dead a few years ago along the border of Ohio and Indiana. We can also remember the mountain lions that have been viewed all over Michigan, including Lenawee and Monroe Counties. And, of course, wild boars are now a growing scourge in the southern tier counties. Nature can be VERY surprising.