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The Grand River Watershed is interconnected with Lake Michigan, impacting each other's health. Pollution from urban and rural sources affects both bodies of water. Climate change and invasive species further disrupt the balance, requiring community engagement and conservation efforts to protect native species. Invasive species are identified and removed by organizations like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service using canes to differentiate between native and invasive predators in fish hatcheries. How does the health of the Grand River affect the health of Lake Michigan and vice versa? So, the Grand River Watershed, this is really a representation of the Lake Michigan watershed. All of the streams and rivers around here are draining out of the Grand River. So then you look at the Great Lakescape there, there's a Lake Michigan watershed. All the water in here is going back to Lake Michigan. At the mouth of the stream is the Great Lakes. So it's all the way down there. And so whatever is really impacting our Grand River here, whether that be from urban sprawl, urban activities or rural runoff, stuff like that, we're talking about pollution. All of that inevitably is going to drain or affect Lake Michigan. And so especially when we're talking about the current industry and overruns, you can think of algae bloom, stuff like that. A lot of that also comes from the larger watersheds draining everything through that one area. And so that's kind of how you get a lot of different issues. I believe when it comes to ways of healing as well, some of those are things like Lake Michigan are having easier times making a move to the Grand River. And so we've seen a lot of interesting effects from that as well. So everything has worked. I'm not going to say everything that's going on in Lake Michigan. I think Lake Michigan is going to come back here. But it's the same idea that it's one big watershed. And the idea is to really have a whole understanding where the impacts are and kind of where the future is going to be. There's also community engagement to get back to work. And with the heating of the lakes with the climate change and with, like, the constant temperature shifts, I know the invasive species that are used to some of those temperature changes, then they stay, and then some of the native species have been like, we've been expecting this temperature for this long. Now we're going to move farther this way. And now it's just invasive species there. So I know that's a big problem with that too. It's a complete imbalance. Yeah. It's really interesting. I mean, when you look at it overall, I don't think it's a big problem. Yeah, it is. I don't think people are used to that. I feel like they leave the right of way. They're freaky. They're so weird. But they're also, like, up close, it's like, how are you a thing? I know. Have you seen the native ones? I know how cool they are, the native ones. Really? I don't think I have. All I've seen is, like, the ones people focus on and be invasive. Yeah. Any, like, oh, I forget what they're called, fish. Like the places that breed fish, fish hatcheries that I've been to, they usually have, like, a tank full of invasive land breeders. Like, if you see these, you've got to, like, kill them. Yeah. So, yeah. Sometimes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comes, and they usually bring, you know, canes from here. Yeah. They have canes. They're trying to catch native and invasive land predators. And then, how do they, like, differentiate? Like, how? Oh, they pick them, and you feed them on the canes. All right. I mean, the natives are, like, so much more, like, a herd of them. Yeah. Do they catch other stuff in that, or is it, like, specifically? If they do, right now, it's, like, it's built to just test. Yeah. I was wondering how they filtered it out and purchased land breeders. Yeah. So, this is a native. That's the head of a native. Oh, yeah. Oh, they're so big. It's so crazy. And the bite marks that they leave are so gross. Yeah, that is. Yeah, that makes sense why they can differentiate. All right.