Erosion

With almost 300,000 off-road vehicles hitting northern Michigan trails every year, Michigan’s state forests are reaching a breaking point.

Extreme rainfall and reduced evaporation during the 2010s caused the Great Lakes to rise to record-breaking levels by 2020, swallowing up beaches and digging away at the dunes behind them, threatening waterfront homes like the Brickleys’ which is in Berrien County.

The sandbags were meant to be temporary to prevent erosion during record-high water levels three years ago.

As they navigate a pandemic, Michigan residents will also be increasingly impacted by high lake levels this year.The US Army Corps of Engineers is…

New legislation would allow Michigan residents to use shoreline erosion protection before getting a state permit when lake levels are high.The state has…

Lisa Kenion lives in Euclid, right off of Lake Erie. She’s a member of the Moss Point Beach Club, a neighborhood with a private little patch of lakefront…