A complete list of all programs within the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)
Community involvement and public participation are an essential part of EGLE’s mission, vision, and values.
SARA Title III establishes requirements regarding emergency planning and "Community Right-to-Know" reporting on hazardous and toxic chemicals for federal, state, local, and tribal governments, as well as regulated facilities.
Resources and information on utilizing RRD's data exchange and the Inventory of Facilities.
An interactive map displaying contaminated sites throughout Michigan regulated under Parts 213, 201, and 211.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy’s (EGLE) Water Well Viewer (WWV), is an interactive mapping system that displays water wells along with other information, such as wellhead protection areas, underground storage tanks, and sites of environmental contamination. Water well locations have been identified by address matching, the use of global positioning systems (GPS), and by legal descriptions.
This system allows water well drilling and pump installation contractors to submit water well records.
EGLE's interactive calendar is designed to provide timely information on decisions before the Director, proposed settlements of contested cases, administrative rules promulgation, public hearings, meetings and comment deadlines, and environmental conferences, workshops and training programs.
Anyone wishing to formally serve legal documents upon the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), or its officers or employees, may do so by the following methods.
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Michigan’s wild rice (species Zizania palustris and Zizania aquatica), is a grain-producing, aquatic grass native to the Great Lakes region and portions of Canada. It's found in shallow, quiet waters of marshes, inland lakes and slowly moving streams and grows 6 - 10 feet tall.
Wild rice provides important habitat for wildlife, supports water quality, and sustains traditional food systems for Anishinaabe communities, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region, who know the plant as manoomin or mnomin.
Once plentiful throughout Michigan, wild rice is under threat from climate change, habitat loss, uninformed harvesting practices, degraded water quality and other factors.
We are proud to strengthen Tribal-State partnerships and ensure Manoomin continues to thrive—as both a cultural resource and a vital part of Michigan’s ecosystems.
A collaboration of the State of Michigan and the twelve federally recognized tribes within Michigan, the initiative brings specialists and managers together to share information, coordinate approaches, and elevate awareness about wild rice conservation and restoration.
Throughout the year, we highlight wild rice in various workshops, webinars, and social media posts to drive awareness and action on wild rice stewardship.
Our staff participates in educational workshops and camps to increase their knowledge on this important grain.
Finalized in 2025, We All Live Together in a Good Way with Manoomin: Stewardship Guide tells the story of Manoomin through an Anishinaabe perspective.
The guide also explores the socio-ecological context of Manoomin restoration and revitalization and offers a series of goals and objectives to support the work of the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative.
As of November 2023, manoomin (wild rice) was officially designated as the state of Michigan's native grain!
This was the first native grain designation in the United States.
Manoomin translates to “the good berry” in Ojibwe. It is a culturally significant plant to the Anishinaabek (Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi) and is directly linked to their migration from the northeastern coast to the Great Lakes region several hundred years ago.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Wildlife Division has been partnering with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for nearly a decade on wild rice restoration efforts.
Recent work includes a total of 10,278 pounds of wild rice seeded at 11 sites on public and tribal lands in Baraga and Houghton counties in 2023.
The DNR also has been planting wild rice at other locations in the eastern Upper Peninsula.
Since 2016, they've planted 200-1,060 pounds per year at the Dollarville flooding in Luce County and, since 2018, 50-430 pounds per year at the Black Creek Flooding in Mackinac County (except for 2021, when rice was unavailable).
