There’s a new video on Crain’s Detroit’s web site, The Bright Side Video #7: Ecotourism & Downriver Rebirth. It’s about how parts of the Detroit River downriver from the city had been turned into outdoor recreational sites from a reputation of industrial contamination. Nowadays, wildlife is thriving in the Detroit River watershed and it’s an opportunity to bring visitors from outside as well as from all over the metro region to enjoy North America’s only international wildlife refuge.
Some numbers: the Detroit River boasts 117 different fish species, 30 kinds of waterfowl, 23 raptors which include eagles, 31 shorebirds, and 35 butterflies and dragonflies.