Beaver Island Transportation Authority Plan Update
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Nesting Piping Plovers on High Island
2021 Piping Plover LTBB Reservation High Island May 6 Bill Parsons/Kevin Haynes The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Natural Resource Department (LTBB NRD) biologists boated out from Harbor Springs to High Island (NEZEWABEGON) to search for piping...
Wildlife Club and BIA urge caution to protect island rabbits from fatal disease
The Wildlife Club and the BIA want you to be aware that there is a highly communicable disease spreading among rabbits. It’s no risk to humans, but it could do real damage to the rabbit population on the island were it to spread here. So, be aware and check with...
State health officials loosen masking requirements
Starting Thursday, state orders will no longer require that you wear a mask outdoors at gatherings of fewer than 100 people nor are they required indoors at residential meetings where everyone is vaccinated. Also relaxed are testing requirements for sports teams—tests...
BIA providing fundraising assistance for proposed pickleball and bocce ball courts
Pickleball has become one of the most popular sports across the nation and has big and growing following on the island. Likewise, a series of bocce ball tournaments over the last several years has generated intertest for that game as well. A group of players have come...
Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee Watch
The US Fish and Wildlife Service contacted Beaver Island with a request to be on the look out for a rusty-patched bumble bee which is listed as an endangered species. It was last seen in Michigan in 2006. Rusty-patched bumble bees are active May through November....
Help prevent the spread of oak wilt: Avoid pruning or wounding oak trees between April 15 and July 15
Oak trees have a reputation for being mighty, but these majestic trees need our help in spring and early summer to prevent the spread of a microscopic killer. From April 15 to July 15, oak trees are at high risk for oak wilt, a serious fungal disease that can weaken...
CONGRATULATIONS! – We did it!
REPRINTED FROM :NorthernIslander News & Beaver BeaconWE DID IT! Thanks to all for voting by mail or tweet to help make this happen! The Beaver Beacon was the only Beaver Island newspaper since James Jesse Strang’s Northern Islander was published in the 1850s....
Plan now for spring treatment of hemlock woolly adelgid
As we've previously reported, the hemlock woolly adelgid has been making its way north along the Lake Michigan shore. But, according to the just complete CAKE CISMA survey, it has (thankfully) not made its way to the island. Still, it is important to keep an eye out...
Deep Lake Michigan water temp changes and their impact are covered in the latest Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory newsletter
Check out the winter wrap-up edition of the NOAA GLERL eNews featuring: Climate-driven shifts in deep Lake Michigan water temperatures signal the loss of winterFive decades of Great Lakes ice cover data – and where to find itNew science with...
Health Department asks unvaccinated islanders to complete survey
The Health Department of Northwest Michigan has asked that all islanders who are 16 and older and who are still awaiting COVID vaccination to complete a survey at this link: https://patienteducationgenius.jotform.com/z/HDNWM. The information will be used to plan for...