Author: Pete DeBoer, Land Protection Coordinator

Skunk Cabbage

Early Emergent Recently I was on the banks of the Pere Marquette River and noticed a familiar plant crawling from the earth โ€“ skunk cabbage. Itโ€™s one of the early risers from the banks of rivers and wetlands in West Michigan and beyond. The plant actually

A Michigan fish that was โ€“ the Arctic Grayling

Have you ever heard of the Arctic Grayling? Before the abundance of brown trout and steelhead in Michiganโ€™s rivers, this fish with the large dorsal fin is the one that anglers dreamt about. And itโ€™s possible that it might make a return.   A victim of the logging