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There is a canoe and kayak put-in at Ypsi s Frog Island. You may not know about it because it s inaccessible. The Frog Island Natural Resources Trust Fund Grant may change that.
Bonnie Wessler is the Project Manager for the City of Ypsilanti presenting the grant proposal at this week s City Council meeting. It would provide significant alterations to Frog Island.
What we re planning to do with this grant is to take a good hard look at that north end of the park, make the parking lot accessible from the pathway, and bring a lot of visibility to that canoe and kayak put-in and, perhaps, make that acceptable and universally designed as well, so that more people can enjoy it.
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Larry Scheer and Jennifer Yim are volunteers with the Huron River Watershed Council. They re among many who take samples to determine the health of streams and rivers.
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It’s freezing outside and Larry Scheer is in neoprene chest waders kicking up sediment in Boyden Creek near Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He’s using a fine mesh net to capture the detritus he’s stirred up. When he has enough in his net, he makes his way to the shore where Jenni Yim is waiting with a tray.
She and her nine-year-old son sort through the organic matter with tweezers, looking for a certain kind of insect.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appointed two new members to EMU’s Board of Regents at the end of Deember. In city news, the Ypsilanti City Council expressed affordable housing concerns with the Kaufman Jacobs development plan for Water St., and the Jim Toy Community Center will close its physical location at the end of January. Listen to this week’s news recap podcast on your favorite podcast provider, or read the transcript here.