Winter 2011

• Three ways to get outside and have fun this winter
• Scenarios of winter climate change in the watershed
• New fertilizer restrictions
• HRWC and partners target phosphorus, bacteria and habitat problems
• 2012 Watershed Community Calendar available
• Take the Watershed Community Online Survey

Fall 2011 Special Issue, Save Water, Tips and Info Inside . . .

• Save water, energy and money while protecting the Huron
• Water impacts of electricity production
• HRWC begins new community-based climate change planning
• Your water footprint
• Bids on the River online auction opens Friday, September 16
• 2012 Watershed Community Calendar available in September
• Take the Watershed Community Online Survey

Summer 2011

• Freshwater Sponges
• Meet HRWC’s Storm Chasers
• New  Ad Campaign
• HRWC takes the Lead on Dam Program Improvements
• Annual Meeting
• Paddle the Huron River Water Trail

Spring 2011

• Adopt-A-Stream Founder Retires
• Assessing the Huron’s Natural Areas
• New River Scouts Program, Paddle to Protect
• High-Tech Sleuthing to Detect Failing Septics
• Volunteer Monitoring in Livingston County
• HRWC’s Summer Recreation Events (fly fishing, paddle trips, and more)

Winter 2010

• HRWC Wraps Up a Successful Project Using Rain Gardens
• Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Watershed
• Progress on Phosphorus-free Fertilizer Regulations
• Taking the Huron River’s Temperature

Fall 2010

• The River Today
• Measuring Stream Flow
• Fall Birding Opportunities
• 360 Feet of Streambank Restored on Mill Creek

Summer 2010

• The River in 1966
• Monitoring and Evaluation Data for Lower Huron
• To Hell and Back
  Portage Creek Management Plan

Spring 2010

• The Skinny on Lakes
• Phosphorus Declines throughout Middle Huron
• Join Us for 2010 Summer Fun
• Ann Arbor Township Protects the Watershed

Winter 2009: Special Issue, Climate Change

• Why Climate Change Matters
• SUDS on the River a Success
• Film Fest Call for Entries
• 2010 Wall Calendars Available

Fall 2009

• Native plants green up the Huron
• HRWC advocates Argo Dam removal
• Stream buffer protection in Green Oak and Scio Townships

Summer 2009

• What is your favorite place on the Huron?
• Water quality of 13 local lakes measured in 2008
• Changes in Lansing impact wetland, DEQ, and DNR
• Planning in Portage and Protecting in Mill
• Korean delegation visits HRWC

Spring 2009

• Swans of the watershed
• Great Lakes compact approved
• Michigan Clean Water Corps: Bringing water monitors together from across the state
• Spring and summer volunteer activities
• Implementing low impact development in Michigan

Winter 2008

• Eradicating deadly diseases: a local wetland’s role
• What our data tells us about the condition of the Huron
• Snow and ice melting tips for homeowners
• Celebrate winter in the Huron River Watershed

Fall 2008

• HRWC celebrates first dam removal in the watershed
• Three critical factors for healthy streams
• Adopt-a-stream program seeks volunteers and support
• Top rated adventures in the watershed,
• MDEQ issued new permits controlling stormwater runoff admid controversy.

Summer 2008

• Two ways to explore your watershed
• Get the “dirt” about soil composition and life
• Miller’s Creek development highlight low impact tools of urban stormwater management
• New Wood’s Creek friends group launched
• Riparian buffer initiative completed
• Successful Third Annual film festival focus on watershed issues.

Spring 2008

• Freshwater jellyfish thrive in Huron River
• Innovative planning tools
• Encouraging report on five-year study of middle Huron
• River friendly lawn care tips
• Dexter dam removal is moving ahead
• HRWC shares favorite spring location along Mill Creek watershed.

Winter 2007

• Study illustrates potential watershed deterioration by 2030
• Seeking the elusive Stonefly
• HRWC staff and locals protect Woods Creek
• Portage Creek to have its own management plan
• Successful “Suds on the River” environmental awareness event
• Update on HRWC projects & activities
• Bioreserve project seeks volunteers & partners.

Fall 2007

• Tools for preserving the watershed
• Liz reports on her 100-mile Huron River swim
• Five area townships participating in Huron Buffer Initiative
• Paw Paw trees still found in a few Huron floodplain forests
• Green Oak Township leading effort on stormwater ordinance

Summer 2007

• Liz swims the Huron to raise awareness for water quality
• Green alternatives to traditional burial practices
• Successes from the second annual film festival
• Adopt-a-Stream volunteers provide vital scientific information about the Huron and its tributaries
• Volunteers honored at annual meeting
• Bioreserve project on a roll

Spring 2007

• Progress and direction for Ann Arbor’s Greenbelt Initiative
• Helping HRWC identify and protect natural areas
• Innovative land-use project focuses on transfer of development rights (TDR)
• Colt Farm’s permit denied
• How stormwater regulations hold up in court
• Longnose Gar is an ancient native fish species present in the Huron

Winter 2006

• Origins of the Huron River name
• Results of a two-year study of Mill Creek
• Tax incentives for land conservation
• Restoration projects in the Huron’s headwaters and a section of Millers Creek
• Detroit Heritage River Water Trail in the works
• Ann Arbor bans phosphorus in lawn fertilizers

Fall 2006

• Steelhead and chinook salmon in the Huron
• Stream assessment using modeling techniques
• Questions (about water protection) to ask your candidates for state and local office
• Study of novel methods to prevent algae problems in Ford and Belleville lakes

Summer 2006

• Migrating birds of the Huron
• Buffer initiative protects riparian areas
• Paddling on the Huron: contact info for liveries
• Mill Creek watershed update
• Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs) program studies high-density development

Spring 2006

• Rare plants and animals in the watershed
• Davis Creek
• Bioreserve program continues

Winter 2005

• Effects of road salt on the Huron
• Reactions from River RoundUp
• Drinking water damaged by development
• Lower Huron and Huron Chain of Lakes watershed management plans completed
• Workshops for lakefront property owners to help protect lake quality

Fall 2005

• Mill Creek project targets subwatershed protection
• Kidney shell mussel egg case found in the Huron
• Pharmaceutical pollutants in the Huron
• Residents concerned about algal blooms
• History of HRWC

• Removal of Mill Pond Dam

Summer 2005

• Story of Barton Pond
• Field guide to aquatic phenomena
• Early origins of HRWC
• Storming Down a Lovely Valley: new report on Millers Creek

Spring 2005

• Life as a smallmouth bass
• Millages to protect greenspace
• Recreation in the watershed: contact information for area parks
• Rapid stream assessments provide snapshot of stream conditions
• Barton Pond vulnerable to bluegreen algae
• Plant trees to protect the Huron

Winter 2004

• Fishing spiders
• Controversy over water withdrawal rules
• Feasibility of removing Argo Dam
• Statewide monitoring through Michigan Clean Water Corps
• Natural areas map completed

Fall 2004

• Flooding around Ore Lake
• Infrastructure barriers harm fish and mussels
• State acts to curb sprawl
• Implementation of Mill Creek plan
• Watershed communities examine codes and ordinances

Summer 2004

• Approaches to Phase II storm water regulations
• Machines restore polluted aquatic environments
• Bridge planned in natural river zone
• Watershed friendly golf

Spring 2004

• Measuring flooding in Allen’s Creek
• Implementation of Kent Lake subwatershed plan
• Hawk migration in the Huron
• Middle Huron stream monitoring update
• Greenbelt plan to protect open space
• Pledge book survey results

Winter 2003

• MDEQ approves watershed plan in Mill Creek
• A muskrat tale
• The first State of the Huron Conference
• Ann Arbor library builds “green”