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Sunken Hazard

Sunken Hazard

We apologize that we're a little late alerting you to the latest from everybody's favorite Michigan hero. We are knee deep in work matters and have fallen way behind on a number of planned posts. We're still not done with our landowners stories series; there are...

Now they’re messing with our hunting season?!

Now they’re messing with our hunting season?!

Odd that people who like to think of themselves as such good neighbors can be such awful neighbors. Honestly, what kind of neighbor comes to your place and somehow manages to intrude upon all of the things you hold most dear? First, they messed with our natural...

The Truth about Trees

The Truth about Trees

Happy Monday everyone. This week, among other things we'll be discussing a couple of newspaper articles from phase two of the Line 6B project, one from Griffith, Indiana and the other from Niles, Michigan. What do the two articles have in common? Well, they both...

Restoration update (teaser)

Restoration update (teaser)

If you've been keeping up with our series of Landowner Stories, then you know that what's on the minds of most phase one landowners is restoration. It's certainly been on ours. This morning, Sam the dog wanted to take a tour of some of the work in the neighborhood....

“They are doing what they want”

“They are doing what they want”

Since it's been a little while since we've posted any, you may have thought we were done with our series on landowner stories (don't forget about our previous installments!). But we've got more! Discerning readers have probably already seen plenty of patterns, plenty...

In which we struggle to maintain our measured tone…

We're a little groggy on this Monday following an exciting four day academic conference we helped to organize at our university, which is why we've been a little quiet here at the blog lately. Scholars from all over the world traveled to Michigan to talk about nerdy...

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