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A giant wooden "nature megaphone" built by local high school students is now open to the public. The megaphone next to the Belle Isle Nature Center amplifies the sound of nature when you're inside it.

After being closed for two years for renovations, the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory is again open to the public.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is using a couple of roving robots on tracks to sift through the sand on beaches, cleaning up debris.

The bigger picture of the state's GOP, Michigan's berry season, a look at Belle Isle since the state takeover and the Detroit Tigers draft prospects.

Today, we dug into tension between Ford and some of its parts suppliers. Plus, why Belle Isle's a great place to spend a sunny day...until you need to find a bathroom. We also heard about the Canadian wildfire smoke that's casting a haze across Michigan skies. Then, the husband and wife team who saved a U.P. newspaper, and turned it into an award-winning publication.

Today, we relistened to three conversations about the arts in southeast Michigan. One was with a landscape designer whose work is on Belle Isle; another with a quilting artist from Ann Arbor; and the last with a Detroit-based sculptor.

The Nature Center's indoor space has been closed to the public since March 2020.

On today's show, we discussed Ford's newest round of layoffs, and decorated para-cyclist Kate Brim dished on her success. A feature from IPR covered bison farming, and Piet Oudolf talked about his trip to Oudolf Garden.

Oudolf Garden Detroit recently opened to the public on Belle Isle, and it's a wonderland of natural landscape. Landscape architect Piet Oudolf was behind the project, and Stateside caught up with him on his first visit to the finished garden.

The Belle Isle Aquarium will reopen on Friday, relieving the ennui that has set in among fish, eels, and frogs since the building closed to visitors last…