BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Army National Guard has come up with a new way to utilize its expansive property at the Fort Custer Training Center. The training center is now also being used to help reintroduce an endangered butterfly back into the environment.
The Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs said about 300 endangered Mitchell’s satyr butterflies were carefully released last week to a prairie fen habitat within the Fort Custer Training Center.
The project is a unique partnership with the Michigan Army National Guard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Michigan State University and John Ball Zoo…