Fish skin, scales touted as future economic boon for Mich., Great Lakes

Highland Park — The fillets that depart Motor City Seafood Co. are tidy, ready to be packaged, shipped and prepared fresh at a Metro Detroit kitchen. They don’t start that way. The Highland Park seafood distributor mostly imports whole fish. Workers fillet them by hand or send them through a system of machines that remove …

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Forest Service addresses wolves as it plans for Castle, Windy Fire restoration | News

Officials with Sequoia National Forest expect to continue this spring with projects intended to protect giant sequoia groves from stand-replacing fires. The U.S. Forest Service released decision notices Thursday for both the Castle Fire Ecological Restoration Project and the Windy Fire Restoration Project.  × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able …

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Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford, from the cornfield to the C-suite

Beth Ford’s first job paid $2 an hour. Early in the morning, she climbed on the school bus to go detassel corn, joining other kids in Sioux City, Iowa, who did it as a summer job. “Back then, two dollars an hour, that was real money,” Ford tells CNN’s Poppy Harlow in the latest episode …

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