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To reduce pet overpopulation, 13,000 surgeries are performed each year in addition to low cost sterilizations. Annually more than 20,000 children are educated; teaching them compassion, respect for animals and responsible animal care. Michigan Humane is also a driving force for greater legislative protection for animals throughout Michigan. [1]
Samaritas, formerly Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, [1] is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, human services organization that serves the entire Lower Peninsula of Michigan with more than 70 programs sites, including adoption, a community center, foster care, family preservation, independent, assisted living and rehabilitation centers for seniors, skilled nursing centers, refugee resettlement and ...
West Michigan: website, 140 acres, owned by Lowell School District, outdoor learning center, community garden Woldumar Nature Center: Lansing: Eaton: Central Michigan: website, 178 acres, over 5 miles of trails, outreach and on-site Environmental Education programs for children as well as adults
Map of the region, employing a narrow definition. West Michigan and Western Michigan are terms for a region in the U.S. state of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.Generally, it refers to the Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland area, and more broadly to most of the region along the Lower Peninsula's Lake Michigan shoreline, but there is no official definition.
The Yellow Dog Plains is an area north and west of Marquette, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. The Yellow Dog River flows through it, as does the Salmon Trout River . The Salmon Trout River is unique in that it has a breeding population of coasters, a potamodromous form of brook trout .
Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park is a 92-mile (148 km) long linear state park in the U.S. state of Michigan.. The trail extends from northern Grand Rapids to Cadillac, and it lies on the path graded for the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad (later absorbed by the Pennsylvania Railroad).
The Manistee River flows from east to west in the north of the county. Briar Hill , the highest point in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, is located in northwestern Wexford County, at 1,706 feet (520 m). The county is the location of the first known sighting of the Michigan Dogman , in 1887.
The Porcupine Mountains were the site of copper mining in the 19th century. One of these mines is the Nonesuch Mine , which operated sporadically from 1867 to 1912. Because of its copper mining history, the state park is a cooperating unit of Keweenaw National Historical Park .