By Mark | October 2, 2017
As you may have heard, over the next several months, members of our City Council will be debating whether we should remove Ypsilanti’s aging Peninsular Dam, or invest approximately $640,000 in its renovation… Following, in hopes that it might help some of you to better understand the various issues at play in the “remove vs. […]
Posted in Environment, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged asian carp, canoeing, dams, Dexter, fish, fishing, Huron River, hydroelectric, International Village, Laura Rubin, Peninsular Dam, Peninsular Paper, portage, power generation, restoration, Water Street, watersheds, Ypsilanti City Council |
Way back in 2007, after learning that my friend Nat Edmunds was in possession of an original copy of the 1913 Huron River Improvement Plan drafted by influential landscape architects John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., I made a promise on this site that I’d figure out a way to get it scanned […]
Posted in Architecture, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bonnie Wessler, Elizabeth Riggs, Frederick Law Olmsted, Huron River, Janice Anschuetz, landscape architecture, Laura Rubin, Luna Lake, maps, Natalie Edmunds, Olmsted, Olmsted Brothers, Quirk Park, Riverside Park, tridge, Ypsilanti Gleanings, Ypsilanti Historical Society, Ypsilanti Toboggan Slide Company |
By Mark | November 18, 2015
After kicking things off with the awesome into song written by our recent guest Frank Allison, we jumped right into things with University of Michigan Associate Professor Rebecca Hardin, the host of WCBN’s environmental news show It’s Hot in Here, and avid hunter Ben Connor Barrie, the editor of the Ann Arbor blog Damn Arbor. […]
Posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Environment, Local Business, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Aja Marcato, bats, Ben Connor Barrie, biodiversity, dams, darters, deer, deer cull, ecosystem, Elizabeth Riggs, Erika Nelson, ethics, fish, fish habitat, fishing, Frank Allison, Fred Bear, Geddes, guns, guns in parks, guns in schools, Heather Evans, hostas, hunting, Huron River, It's Hot in Here, James Hughes, Jim Cherewick, kindness, large mouth bass, Lyme Disease, Marquette, Matt Jones, native plants, Organization for Bat Conservation, public health, public parks, rabies, Rebecca Hardin, River Street Anthology, RiverUp!, Schultz Outfitters, shrubs, small mouth bass, suckers, Ted Nugent, The Who Guy, ticks, USDA, vampires, white bass, White Nose Syndrome, Wildlife Conservation Society, wildlife management |
By Mark | November 15, 2015
On last night’s episode of The Saturday Six Pack, in a discussion with Elizabeth Riggs, the deputy director of the Huron River Watershed Council, about efforts to improve fish habitat along the Huron, Riggs mentioned work that had been done earlier that morning at the north end of Frog Island Park to create an access […]
I knew going in that this show could be a mess. In addition to the requisite six pack, I’d asked our friend Brigid Mooney to come in and show us how to make her signature cocktail, the Dirty Mooney, which, as it turns out, is pretty much just straight gin with a hint of Sprite. […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Aimee Adams, Beth Bashert, Brian Robb, Brigid Mooney, Champaign, Christians under attack, crying, Dirty Mooney, drunkenness, Eric Wozniak, gay marriage, gin, Hedger Breed, Kate de Fuccio, Laura Rubin, marriage equality, Patrick Elkins, radio drama, Sprite |