Kalamazoo Seasons

For some reason, whenever I thought of paddling the Kalamazoo River, I would drive east to Fort Custer and float the stretch from that rec...

Nearly two years after the 2010 oil spill , most of Kalamazoo River re-opened .  Some submerged oil remains in the river and clean-up eff...

Eagle Lake in Fort Custer Recreation Area is about a 20 minute drive east of Kalamazoo.  Motor boats are restricted on the lake, which m...

Yellow Birch ( Betula alleghaniensis ) grows throughout the northeastern US and Canada and the Appalachians. I think of it as a swamp tre...

Black-eyed Susan ( Rudbeckia hirta ) is, perhaps, our best-known prairie flower.  Native to North America, its bright yellow flowers blo...

The Chipman Preserve is one of the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy's largest preserves.  It was donated to the SWMLC by the Chipm...

Swamp Milkweed ( Asclepias incarnata ) is blooming in Kalamazoo.  Its eye-catching clusters of flowers are more vivid than the blossoms o...