Sheri McWhirter

Traverse City

Climate Reporter at MLive

Newshound keen on outdoor & nerd stuff. Climate reporter @MLive & @KipProgram fellow. Past: @RecordEagle. She/her, settler on stolen Anishinaabek land.

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Michigan funding climate efforts after Trump tried to claw back federal dollars

1 day ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter

DETROIT, MI – Michigan announced its first climate grant challenge funded with federal infrastructure money the Trump administration tried to claw back earlier this year. Hundreds of climate action advocates and professionals were among the first to learn about this new grant contest at the annual state climate conference Tuesday, April 22, in downtown Detroit. Michigan officials said they are moving forward with climate action efforts, regardless of changing political winds.
‘Legion of bark beetles’ expected to gobble Michigan’s ice-damaged trees

1 week ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter

BELLAIRE, MI – An invasion of beetles is coming, and it will bring another wave of damage to the already battered Michigan Northwoods. Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and wood-boring beetles can be expected as the next environmental and economic disaster to strike up north forests.
Michigan saved the Kirtland’s warbler from extinction. What did it cost the environment?

2 weeks ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter

GRAYLING, MI – Saving the Kirtland’s warbler from extinction is touted among the greatest conservation achievements in Michigan history. The migratory songbird was one of the first added to the federal list of endangered species. That prompted conservationists to create thousands of acres of jack pine habitat specifically for the warbler and even take the fight to parasitic cowbirds known to take over warbler nests.
Tribes and advocates ask Michigan Supreme Court to spike Line 5 tunnel permit

2 weeks ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter

LANSING, MI – Four Indigenous tribes and two environmental groups this week asked Michigan’s top court to overturn a state permit to build a tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac for an oil pipeline.
Possible EPA rule change could rekindle more prescribed fire in Michigan forestry

4 weeks ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Federal environmental regulators said they want to make it easier for states and tribes to use prescribed fire to reduce fuel loads in forests and lower the risk of future catastrophic wildfires. The top official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the bureaucracy will seek to change a federal rule to exclude days with smoky conditions caused by prescribed fires from counting against efforts to meet national air quality standards.
The roster of ‘future old-growth’ forests in Michigan is expanding

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Sheri McWhirter

Share BROHMAN, MI – Trees at Richmond Woods Nature Preserve are destined to age until they become old-growth forest. The national nonprofit Old-Growth Forest Network recently added the 114-acre nature preserve in Michigan’s Newaygo County to its registry of older forests . Land management at the site will focus on reversing the nationwide decline of old-growth forests, officials said.
The roster of ‘future old-growth’ forests in Michigan is expanding

1 month ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter

BROHMAN, MI – Trees at Richmond Woods Nature Preserve are destined to age until they become old-growth forest. The national nonprofit Old-Growth Forest Network recently added the 114-acre nature preserve in Michigan’s Newaygo County to its registry of older forests. Land management at the site will focus on reversing the nationwide decline of old-growth forests, officials said.
Michigan will foot the bill for piping plover monitoring after feds yank funding

1 month ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter

LANSING, MI – Michigan wildlife officials are picking up the tab for critical efforts in Great Lakes piping plover conservation work. For years, officials with the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hired about five seasonal piping plover monitors to work at state parks where the federally endangered shorebirds annually nest on the beach. This year, federal grant money that pays for three of those five positions was not released by the Trump administration.
Honey, maple syrup makers could sell more under proposed Michigan cottage food law change

1 month ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter

LANSING, MI – Honey and maple syrup makers in Michigan stand to get equal financial treatment under the state’s cottage food law with proposed legislation in Lansing. Both state House and Senate members are working on updates to Michigan codes to achieve a shopping list of changes for those who make food in their homes to sell at farmers markets and roadside stands.
Piping plovers ‘will die’ at Sleeping Bear because of Trump cuts, experts say

1 month ago | mlive.com | Sheri McWhirter |Garret M. Ellison

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