Rare Plant Finder

Before land can be logged, or roads built, or other development takes place on federal and state land, the officials in charge have to write up a statement about how the development will affect the land. Sometimes they just go by maps. But other times they send out researchers like Gary Walton, who seems to find more rare and endangered plants than just about anybody else. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Stephanie Hemphill has more:

Reducing Mercury in Wastewater

Businesses are coming to agree with environmental activists that preventing pollution is better than treating it after it’s in the air or water. There are lots of cost-effective ways of doing it. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Stephanie Hemphill reports on a demonstration project run by a wastewater treatment plant:

International Joint Commission Biennial Meeting

This weekend, two thousand environmentalists, scientists, and industrial representatives will converge on Duluth, Minnesota, for the Eighth Biennial Meeting of the International Joint Commission. If you’re not quite sure what the IJC is, or why its biennial meeting is so important, you’re not alone. For most of its 74-year history, the six person binational commission has quietly governed the boundary waters between the U.S. and Canada. But as the Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Stephanie Hemphill recently learned, that role is changing as the IJC commits itself to protecting the Great Lakes, and maybe your health in the bargain: