Great Lakes Steward Ship Initiative Northeast Michigan

A visit to northeast Michigan’s coastline offers opportunities to explore life of the ancient oceans that existed more than 350 million years ago in the Great Lakes region. 

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Brandon Schroeder, Michigan State University Extension and Chris Witulski, Director of the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan

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Residents and visitors, alike, can explore the amazing geology of northeast Michigan’s coastline by way of rock hounding and fossil hunting throughout the region.  Here are a few highlighted stops (and partners) to help get you started:

• The Besser Museum, and the newly opened Lafarge Fossil Park, is a great place to add to your fossil collection AND to identify the fossils you may have discovered. Learn more about the region’s unique geology and fossils you’ll find thanks to some artistic interpretive signage created by youth the youth of Lincoln Elementary (Alpena Public School)– a place-based education project supported through the Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative network!

Click Here to read full MSU Extension News Brief Highlighting NE MI GLSI Youth!