Tag: Toledo
State program brings fourth graders to state parks
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Kayte Marshall, Great Lakes Echo
In a world dominated by smartphones and screen time, the Department of Natural Resources aims to reconnect kids with Michigan’s great outdoors.
The DNR is funding Nature Awaits, a program dedicated to hosting outdoor learning sessions for fourth grade classes at state parks.
Fishermen still out on the ice, but walleye run anticipated soon
With the weather outside frigid, a fishing enthusiast wouldn’t necessarily be thinking about the walleye run just yet unless you’re the proprietor of Maumee Tackle — Fishing, Kayak, and Shooting […]
Warming centers to open overnight Friday
Two emergency warming shelters will open overnight Friday due to windchills in the single digits, the city of Toledo announced.
Overlooked land-water nexus is focus of climate change project led by UT soil scientist
The University of Toledo began its annual speaker series inside its Lake Erie Center in Oregon with a soil scientist who said he loves having a career that allows him to get his hands dirty.
U.S., Canada urged to do more microplastic research in Great Lakes region
The patchwork of research that’s been done on microplastics in the Great Lakes has revealed gaps that need to be filled, a scientific panel reporting to the U.S. and Canadian […]