Elk Rapids Nature Fest 2024 Saturday, June 8 from 11:00am-2:00pm Presented by Green Elk Rapids, Nature Fest is a fun, family-friendly event where you can connect with 50 regional organizations (including FLOW!) and learn more about protecting our environment, explore outdoor education, and enjoy live music, workshops, crafts, food, and storytelling. Veterans’ Memorial Park, Elk… Read more »
The discovery of thousands of discarded chemical drums on the Hooker Chemical Company property near Montague, Michigan in the 1970s helped spur Michigan’s toxic cleanup program. Now retired, Andrew Hogarth was the respected longtime chief of the Remediation and Redevelopment Division – in charge of toxic cleanup – in the State Department of Environmental Quality…. Read more »
FLOW’s organizing principle is the public trust doctrine. What sounds like an exotic concept is quite simple. This 1500-year-old principle of common law holds that there are some resources, like water and submerged lands, that by their nature cannot be privately owned. Rather, this commons – including the Great Lakes — belongs to the public. … Read more »
A sampling of recent news coverage involving FLOW Research shows Great Lakes algae and microplastics connect March 21, 2021 Scientists discovered plastic microfibers in the Great Lakes are sticking to green algae that grows along the bottomlands in a way that could help keep the pollution out of the environment. Liz Kirkwood, executive director for Traverse… Read more »
