<p>
	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}ASI_May_342-adjusted-300pxl.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 141px; float: right;" />Have you ever been in an environment so stimulating and so full of life it seemed impossible to take everything in, or make sense of all that was happening around you? The forests, fields, bogs, beaches, dunes, and lakes of northern Michigan are like that in each returning spring. Dynamic changes are occurring literally beneath your feet in complex chemical reactions in soil and water, the emergence of new plants (many with dazzling flowers), the buzz of insects, the songs of frogs, toads and birds, and the complex movements and behaviors of mammals, all integrated in diverse and complex habitats that are also changing as they experience new dynamics of light, temperature, and moisture.&nbsp;</p>
