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Brian Petersen is a part-time reporter/producer at WMUK specializing in environmental stories. He is a part-time instructor in Western Michigan University's Environmental Studies Program. Petersen was previously the host of a talk program at a noncommercial community radio station in California.

WMUK News
10:48 am
Wed May 22, 2013

Restoring an ancient Great Lakes fish

Credit Kregg Smith / Michigan DNR
DNR biologist Kregg Smith with a lake sturgeon caught on the Kalamazoo River
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Sturgeon have lived in the Great Lakes longer than humans have walked the earth. But the ancient fish now need our help to stay here. A joint project by the federal and state officials with a Native American tribe is trying to do that by rebuilding habitat for lake sturgeon in the Kalamazoo River. WMUK’s Brian Petersen went along to find out how it’s done.

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