Learn about the work our team at Michigan Natural Features Inventory has accomplished over the last three years to support the biodiversity and natural heritage of our beautiful Great Lakes State and beyond!

Celebrating Four Decades of Discovering, Defining, and Delivering the Science that Guides Biodiversity Conservation and Stewardship

Special Report: 2020

• The Year in Review
• Natural Heritage Database and Featured Species
• It's Global – It's Local: Human Well-Being Depends on Nature Functioning Well
• Discovering, Defining, Delivering:
  • Nature's Multiple Contributions to People
  • Nature's Regulating Contributions to People
  • Nature's Non-Material Contributions to Human Life

• The Natural Heritage Database and Featured Listed Species
• Nature's Contributions to People
• Michigan's Rare Pollinators: Finding Them, Restoring Habitat
• Mapping Michigan's Coastal Dunes and Shoreline Types in the Northwest Lower Peninsula
• Growing Conservation Super Heroes

• Dynamic, Evolving . . . and a Database!
• A Vital and Unique Partnership with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources
• The I-75 Corridor Conservation Action Plan: A Process as Significant as its Outcomes
• Conservation: A Matter of Heritage, Livelihood, Culture and Spirituality for the Odawa

• The Wide Reaching Impacts of Information on Conservation
• Protecting One of Nature’s Gems The Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly
• The Ripple Effect of MNFI Research on Vernal Pools
• Co-Hosting the International NatureServe Conference