Paving Over Nature

Lakefront parks, nature trails and bike paths are all ways communities encourage the public to get outdoors. But some critics argue… to do that, they bulldoze and brick the very environments they are trying to showcase. However, Great Lakes Radio Consortium commentator Julia King says we shouldn’t be so quick to criticize the paving over of nature:

Three Brothers Shipwreck

Just as quickly as a Lake Michigan storm swallowed a turn-of-the-century cargo steamer, the lake has unexpectedly uncovered what maritime historians are calling a rare archaeological treasure. Great Lakes Radio Consortium correspondent J. Carl Ganter joined the first explorers of the newly discovered wreck just off the shores of South Manitou Island, in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula: