by Kevin Boyle | Jan 22, 2022 | Featured Post
The BIA organized and developed the Beaver Island Birding Trail and, with the leadership of Pam Grassmick, presents an annual Warblers on the Water Beaver Island Birding Trail Festival. The trail includes multiple locations around the island with descriptive signage...
by Pam Grassmick | Aug 22, 2020 | News
Time is running out to register for the BIA-Tip of the Mitt Watershed COuncil High Water Summit being held on Tuesday, August 25 at noon. Follow this link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HmZVNM5LQCWK15aEmYJ0qQ
by WVBI | Nov 6, 2025 | Featured Post, Island Currents, News
Work supported by the Rural Readiness Grant awarded to your BIA continues this week with a team from Advanced Communications & Data (ACD), a Lansing-based ISP, working to finalize a plan for an Island-wide fiber to the home and business. “The grant funds...
by WVBI | Sep 16, 2025 | Island Currents, News
Scientists are weighing what they call a “Noah’s Ark” strategy to save Michigan’s collapsing whitefish populations. Once abundant in lakes Michigan and Huron, whitefish have plummeted as invasive zebra and quagga mussels have transformed the lakes. Quagga mussels now...
by WVBI | Sep 15, 2025 | Featured Post, News
Island birding expert Pam Grassmick reports that the fall migration of birds is now underway, with thousands of species making their way south along the Great Lakes flyway. Most of this remarkable journey happens at night, when cooler air helps birds conserve energy...
by WVBI | Sep 12, 2025 | News
Michigan celebrated another milestone Friday in building the Iron Belle Trail, the state’s signature 2,000-mile route stretching from Detroit’s riverfront all the way to Ironwood in the western Upper Peninsula. A ribbon cutting on Belle Isle opened a new 5.8-mile...
by WVBI | Sep 8, 2025 | News
The Irish Féile drew full-house crowds who enjoyed a weekend packed with music, dancing, and cultural traditions, despite weather that disrupted travel and forced multiple schedule changes. Friday’s boat cancellation, along with periods of rain and gusty winds,...
by Kevin Boyle | Aug 20, 2025 | Featured Post, News
Yesterday, those on the island relying on TDS for phone and internet service were cut off from the world once again—no phone, no internet, and no 9‑1‑1 access—from approximately 8:00 a.m. until 9:15 p.m. The 18-hour blackout left the community incommunicado. There was...
by Kevin Boyle | Aug 19, 2025 | Dark Sky Project, Featured Post, Island Currents, News
The Beaver Island Dark Sky Project is hosting two exciting programs this week that bring the wonders of the night sky — and the importance of preserving it — into focus. 🌠 Skygawking! Night Sky Viewing From August 20–23, head out to the Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve...
by Kevin Boyle | Aug 19, 2025 | Island Currents, News
A unique hands-on sailing experience is headed to Beaver Island later this month. The Inland Seas Education Association will bring its 77-foot schooner, the Inland Seas, to Paradise Bay for two special science sails. For three hours, participants will step aboard and...
by Kevin Boyle | Aug 19, 2025 | Featured Post, Island Currents, News
A Michigan circuit court judge has ruled that the state’s long-running lawsuit against Enbridge over the Line 5 pipeline can move forward, despite a related case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, Judge James Jamo denied the Canadian pipeline operator’s...
by WVBI | Aug 18, 2025 | News
Beaver Island has a new tool to help scientists understand the movements of migratory wildlife. On August 16th, the Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch installed a wildlife tracking antenna at the Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve, adding Beaver Island to an international...
