Ric Lawson 06/08/2023 Restoration Helping Willow Metropark, naturally Projects tackle shoreline erosion and restore a creek. One new restoration project is underway and another is planned by the… Read More »
Ric Lawson 03/20/2023 Rain Gardens Rain Gardens Improve the Huron River HRWC partners develop new program HRWC recently jumped into rain garden development in a big way. While HRWC has promoted… Read More »
Ric Lawson 07/09/2022 Monitoring Twenty Years of Volunteer Water Sampling Chemistry and Flow program grows and changes HRWC’s Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program (“Chem and Flow”), formerly the Water Quality… Read More »
Ric Lawson 11/23/2021 Stormwater Keeping Stormwater Running Clean HRWC supports collaborative stormwater management As human populations grew and settled within the watershed, they began to alter the way… Read More »
Ric Lawson 11/08/2021 Pollution Prevention Farmers Sow Seeds for the Huron River Local farmer collaborations are conserving soil, land, and water quality For most of its history HRWC has focused on addressing… Read More »
Ric Lawson 10/18/2018 Phosphorus Late Harmful Algae Blooms Hit Shed After nearly six years of relatively clear, algae-free waters, harmful algae blooms (HABs) were recently detected in Ford and Belleville… Read More »
Ric Lawson 07/06/2018 Fly Fishing Follow the Huron River Water Trail to adventure . . . Try Fishing a Stretch of the Huron’s Productive Waters I love to explore the watershed and hunt for fish habitat…. Read More »
Ric Lawson 04/21/2017 Local Government Why I'm Marching I will be joining the local March for Science this Saturday in my hometown of Ann Arbor. I am doing… Read More »
Ric Lawson 02/07/2017 Adopt-A-Stream 2016 Results Are In! (at least some of them) In January, HRWC staff and volunteers got together to celebrate another successful season of data collection. Call it a Water-Nerd-Fest,… Read More »
Ric Lawson 12/03/2015 Monitoring Toxic Contaminants Found in Ann Arbor Detention Basins Recently, a team of us HRWC staff went out to see if we could detect the kind of effects scientists… Read More »
Ric Lawson 11/09/2015 Dams Geomorphologists Assemble! HRWC recently hosted the first Michigan Aquatic Restoration Conference (MARC) with partners at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest… Read More »
Ric Lawson 07/20/2015 Green Infrastructure The Power of Water So far we have had a pretty wet summer. I am sure that is not news to you. The river… Read More »