WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for research on measurements of larval fish production in the vicinity of St. Marys River rapids in Michigan. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $74,142. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology and other research and development. The funding is open to participating partners of the Great Lakes Norther  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $87,000 cooperative agreement to the Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan for preservation trades education with the public schools of Calumet Laurium Keweenaw. The agency description of the grant states: "This agreement is to initiate a high school preservation trades education with the Public Schools of Calumet Laurium Keweenaw (CLK), a district located on Michig  more

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, Dec. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: England-based property disposal personnel recently teamed with Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services headquarters staff and the agency's Strategic Materials program to save taxpayers more than $60,000 by adding surplus titanium to DLA's reserve cache. The property disposal team at Royal Air Force Molesworth, near Cambridgeshire, recently received a lot of 70 stock bar  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Michigan's total hog and pig inventory on December 1 was estimated at 1.22 million head, up 40,000 head from a year ago, according to Marlo Johnson, Regional Director of the USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Region. Breeding hog inventory, at 120,000 head, was unchanged from last December. Market hog inventory, at 1.1 milli  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: The National Park Service is working cooperatively with the Town of Beverly Shores to protect Indiana Dunes National Park's Lake View parking area and a portion of Lake Front Drive from erosion. Recent Lake Michigan storm waves have washed away the dunes that protect both the parking area and a portion of the nearby public road. Without intervention, the parking lot, road, and t  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $239,400 cooperative agreement to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the evaluation of the impacts of wolf reintroduction on the other native carnivores, fox, and marten at the Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. The agency description of the grant states: "This announcement is to provide public notice of the NPS's intentions to award financial assistance for the follo  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency has issued the following news release: USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced a new crop insurance option for hemp growers in select counties of 21 states in 2020. The pilot insurance program will provide Actual Production History (APH) coverage under 508(h) Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) for eligible producers in certain counties in Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Ma  more