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CMU side quest summer: Beaver Island

| Author: Eric Baerren | Media Contact: Aaron Mills

While Central Michigan University's main campus settles in for a laid-back summer, the CMU Biological Station on Beaver Island gets busy. CMU students and faculty partake in courses in sciences and faculty and just hanging out with northern Michigan wildlife.

Several young people pull a fishing net from a big body of water
The summer gave CMU students on Beaver Island an opportunity to learn about the Great Lakes up close and personal.
An older gentleman with glasses and a baseball cap smiles at the camera with several young people behind him on a hiking trail
Students also found inspiration in nature for the arts, especially in a writing course.
A young man dressed in red reads at a picnic table surrounded by grass and trees and a big lake in the background
The environment provided what English faculty Robert Fanning called one of the best spots for writing.
Yellow and black butterflies flock together on a sandy beach
Butterflies were among the wildlife that CMU students observed closely while on the island.
A man in a gray T shirt and denim pants lifts a piece of particle board from the grass
Finding wildlife on Beaver Island was as simple as lifting a piece of wood left in the grass.
A yellow and black snake rests on the pointer finger of a person's left hand
The wood attracts snakes, who find shelter under it.
A spit of land stretches out into a lake with the red from the sun visible just over a tree line
Beaver Island's learning environment involved classrooms of water, beach and trees.
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