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What is the zip code for places in
Michigan
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Listed numerically by zip code
Zip code | Name | Area Code(s)
48001 Algonac
48001 Clay
48001 Clay Township
48001 Pearl Beach
48001 Russell Island
48002 Allenton
48002 Berlin
48002 Berlin Township
48002 Berville
48003 Almont
48003 Almont Township
48004 Anchorville
48005 Armada
48005 Armada Township
48006 Avoca
48006 Fargo
48006 Greenwood
48006 Greenwood Township
48006 Kenockee
48006 Kenockee Township
48007 Troy
48009 Bham
48009 Birmingham
48012 Bham
48012 Birmingham
48014 Capac
48014 Mussey
48015 Center Line
48017 Clawson
48021 East Detroit
48021 Eastpointe
48022 Emmett
48022 Emmett Township
48023 Fair Haven
48023 Ira
48023 Ira Township
48025 Beverly Hills
48025 Bingham Farms
48025 Franklin
48025 Southfield Township
48026 Fraser
48027 Goodells
48027 Wales
48027 Wales Township
48028 Harsens Island
48030 Hazel Park
48032 Grant Township
48032 Jeddo
48032 Worth Township
48033 Southfield
48034 Southfield
48035 Clinton Township
48036 Clinton Township
48037 Southfield
48038 Clinton Township
48039 Cottrellville
48039 Cottrellville Township
48039 Marine City
48040 Marysville
48041 Memphis
48041 Riley
48041 Riley Township
48042 Macomb
48042 Macomb Township
48043 Mount Clemens
48044 Macomb
48044 Macomb Township
48045 Harrison Township
48045 Sang
48045 Selfridge
48045 Selfridge Air National Guard
48045 Selfridge Angb
48046 Mount Clemens
48047 Chesterfield
48047 Chesterfield Township
48047 New Baltimore
48048 Lenox
48048 Lenox Township
48048 New Haven
48049 Clyde
48049 Clyde Township
48049 North Street
48049 Ruby
48050 Lenox
48050 Lenox Township
48050 New Haven
48051 Chesterfield
48051 Chesterfield Township
48051 New Baltimore
48054 China
48054 China Township
48054 East China
48054 East China Township
48059 Burtchville
48059 Burtchville Township
48059 Fort Gratiot
48059 Fort Gratiot Township
48059 Lakeport
48059 North Lakeport
48060 Port Huron
48060 Port Huron Township
48061 Port Huron
48062 Richmond
48062 Richmond Township
48063 Columbus
48063 Columbus Township
48064 Casco
48064 Casco Township
48065 Bruce
48065 Bruce Township
48065 Romeo
48066 Roseville
48067 Royal Oak
48068 Royal Oak
48069 Pleasant Rdg
48069 Pleasant Ridge
48070 Huntingtn Wds
48070 Huntington Wd
48070 Huntington Woods
48071 Madison Heights
48072 Berkley
48073 Royal Oak
48074 Kimball
48074 Kimball Township
48074 Smiths Creek
48075 Southfield
48076 Lathrup Village
48076 Southfield
48079 Saint Clair
48079 Saint Clair Township
48080 Saint Clair Shores
48080 Saint Clair Shrs
48080 Saint Clr Shores
48080 Saint Clr Shrs
48081 Saint Clair Shores
48081 Saint Clair Shrs
48081 Saint Clr Shores
48081 Saint Clr Shrs
48082 Saint Clair Shores
48082 Saint Clair Shrs
48082 Saint Clr Shores
48082 Saint Clr Shrs
48083 Troy
48084 Troy
48085 Troy
48086 Southfield
48088 Warren
48089 Warren
48090 Warren
48091 Warren
48092 Warren
48093 Warren
48094 Washingtn Township
48094 Washington
48094 Washington Township
48095 Washingtn Township
48095 Washington
48095 Washington Township
48096 Ray
48096 Ray Township
48097 Brockway
48097 Brockway Township
48097 Lynn
48097 Lynn Township
48097 Yale
48098 Troy
48099 Troy
48101 Allen Park
48103 Ann Arbor
48103 Delhi
48103 Loch Alpine
48103 Lodi Township
48103 Scio Township
48104 Ann Arbor
48104 Pittsfield Township
48105 Ann Arbor
48105 Ann Arbor Township
48105 Barton Hills
48105 Dixboro
48105 Superior Township
48106 Ann Arbor
48107 Ann Arbor
48108 Ann Arbor
48109 Ann Arbor
48109 U of M
48110 Azalia
48110 Monroe
48111 Belleville
48111 Roulo
48111 Sumpter Township
48111 Van Buren Township
48112 Belleville
48113 Ann Arbor
48114 Brighton
48114 Brighton Township
48114 Genoa Township
48114 Hartland Township
48115 Bridgewater
48115 Saline
48116 Brighton
48116 Brighton Township
48116 Crooked Lake
48116 Genoa Township
48116 Green Oak Township
48117 Ash Township
48117 Carleton
48118 Chelsea
48118 Freedom Township
48118 Lima Center
48118 Lima Township
48118 Luce Township
48118 Lyndon Township
48118 Sylvan Township
48120 Dearborn
48121 Dearborn
48122 Melvindale
48123 Dearborn
48124 Dearborn
48125 Dearborn Heights
48126 Dearborn
48127 Dearborn Heights
48128 Dearborn
48130 Dexter
48130 Dover
48130 Four Mile Lake
48130 Hudson Mills
48130 Scio
48130 Webster
48131 Duncan
48131 Dundee
48131 Rea
48133 Erie
48134 Brownstown
48134 Brownstown Township
48134 Brownstwn Township
48134 Flat Rock
48135 Garden City
48136 Garden City
48137 Gregory
48137 Unadilla
48137 Williamsville
48138 Grosse Ile
48138 Hickory Isle
48139 Hamburg
48140 Ida
48141 Inkster
48143 Lakeland
48144 Lambertville
48145 La Salle
48146 Lincoln Park
48150 Livonia
48151 Livonia
48152 Livonia
48153 Livonia
48154 Livonia
48157 Luna Pier
48158 Manchester
48158 Podunk
48158 Sharon
48158 Sharon Hollow
48159 Maybee
48160 Augusta Township
48160 Cone
48160 London Township
48160 Milan
48160 Milan Township
48160 Mooreville
48160 Oakville
48160 Stony Creek
48160 York Township
48161 Frenchtown
48161 Monroe
48161 Raisinville Township
48161 Raisinvl Township
48162 Monroe
48164 Brownstown
48164 Brownstown Township
48164 Brownstwn Township
48164 Huron Township
48164 New Boston
48164 Waltz
48164 Willow
48165 New Hudson
48166 Newport
48167 Northville
48167 Northville Township
48167 Northville Tw
48168 Northville
48169 Dexter Township
48169 Pinckney
48169 Putnam Township
48170 Plymouth
48173 Brownstown
48173 Brownstown Township
48173 Brownstwn Township
48173 Gibraltar
48173 Rockwood
48174 Brownstown
48174 Brownstown Township
48174 Brownstwn Township
48174 Romulus
48175 Salem
48176 Saline
48177 Samaria
48178 South Lyon
48179 South Rockwood
48180 Taylor
48182 Temperance
48183 Brownstown
48183 Brownstown Township
48183 Brownstwn Township
48183 Trenton
48183 Woodhaven
48184 Canton
48184 Wayne
48184 Westland
48185 Westland
48186 Westland
48187 Canton
48187 Canton Township
48188 Canton
48188 Canton Township
48189 Hamburg
48189 Hamburg Township
48189 Northfield Township
48189 Whitmore Lake
48190 Whittaker
48191 Willis
48192 Riverview
48192 Wyandotte
48193 Brownstown
48193 Brownstown Township
48193 Brownstwn Township
48193 Riverview
48193 Wyandotte
48195 Southgate
48197 Rawsonville
48197 Ypsilanti
48198 Superior Township
48198 Willow Run
48198 Ypsilanti
48201 Detroit
48202 Detroit
48203 Detroit
48203 Highland Park
48204 Detroit
48205 Detroit
48206 Detroit
48207 Detroit
48208 Detroit
48209 Detroit
48210 Detroit
48211 Detroit
48211 Hamtramck
48212 Detroit
48212 Hamtramck
48213 Detroit
48214 Detroit
48215 Detroit
48215 Grosse Pointe
48215 Grosse Pointe Park
48216 Detroit
48217 Delray
48217 Detroit
48218 Detroit
48218 River Rouge
48219 Detroit
48220 Detroit
48220 Ferndale
48220 Royal Oak Township
48221 Detroit
48222 Detroit
48222 Detroit River Station
48223 Detroit
48224 Detroit
48224 Grosse Pointe
48224 Grosse Pointe Park
48225 Detroit
48225 Harper Woods
48226 Detroit
48227 Detroit
48228 Detroit
48229 Detroit
48229 Ecorse
48230 Detroit
48230 Grosse Pointe
48230 Grosse Pointe Farms
48230 Grosse Pointe Park
48230 Grosse Pointe Shores
48230 Grosse Pointe Woods
48231 Detroit
48232 Detroit
48233 Detroit
48234 Detroit
48235 Detroit
48236 Detroit
48236 Grosse Pointe
48236 Grosse Pointe Farms
48236 Grosse Pointe Park
48236 Grosse Pointe Shores
48236 Grosse Pointe Woods
48237 Detroit
48237 Oak Park
48238 Detroit
48239 Detroit
48239 Redford
48239 Redford Township
48240 Detroit
48240 Redford
48240 Redford Township
48242 Detroit
48243 Detroit
48244 Detroit
48255 Comerica
48255 Detroit
48260 Detroit
48260 DTE
48264 Comerica Incorporated
48264 Detroit
48265 Detroit
48265 General Motors
48266 Detroit
48266 Kelly Services Inc
48267 Comerica
48267 Detroit
48268 Detroit
48268 DTE Energy
48269 Detroit
48269 DTE Energy Brm
48272 Detroit
48275 Comerica Incorporated
48275 Detroit
48277 Chase Bank
48277 Detroit
48278 Chase Bank
48278 Detroit
48279 Bank of America
48279 Detroit
48288 Chrysler Corporation
48288 Detroit
48301 Bloomfield
48301 Bloomfield Hills
48301 Bloomfield Township
48301 Bloomfield Village
48302 Bloomfield
48302 Bloomfield Hills
48302 Bloomfield Township
48303 Bloomfield
48303 Bloomfield Hills
48303 Bloomfield Township
48303 Bloomfld Hls
48303 Bloomfld Township
48304 Bloomfield
48304 Bloomfield Hills
48304 Bloomfield Township
48306 Goodison
48306 Oakland
48306 Oakland Township
48306 Rochester
48306 Rochester Hills
48306 Rochester Hls
48307 Rochester
48307 Rochester Hills
48307 Rochester Hls
48308 Rochester
48308 Rochester Hills
48309 Rochester
48309 Rochester Hills
48309 Rochester Hls
48310 Saint Heights
48310 Sterling Heights
48311 Saint Heights
48311 Sterling Heights
48312 Saint Heights
48312 Sterling Heights
48313 Saint Heights
48313 Sterling Heights
48314 Saint Heights
48314 Sterling Heights
48315 Shelby Township
48315 Utica
48316 Shelby Township
48316 Utica
48317 Shelby Township
48317 Utica
48318 Shelby Township
48318 Utica
48320 Keego Harbor
48320 Sylvan Lake
48321 Auburn Hills
48322 West Bloomfield
48323 Orchard Lake
48323 West Bloomfield
48324 Orchard Lake
48324 West Bloomfield
48325 West Bloomfield
48326 Auburn Hills
48326 Lake Angelus
48327 Waterford
48327 Waterford Township
48328 Waterford
48328 Waterford Township
48329 Waterford
48329 Waterford Township
48330 Drayton Plns
48330 Waterford
48331 Farmingtn Hls
48331 Farmington
48331 Farmington Hills
48331 Farmington Hls
48332 Farmingtn Hls
48332 Farmington
48332 Farmington Hills
48332 Farmington Hls
48333 Farmingtn Hls
48333 Farmington
48333 Farmington Hills
48333 Farmington Hls
48334 Farmingtn Hls
48334 Farmington
48334 Farmington Hills
48334 Farmington Hls
48335 Farmingtn Hls
48335 Farmington
48335 Farmington Hills
48335 Farmington Hls
48336 Farmingtn Hls
48336 Farmington
48336 Farmington Hills
48336 Farmington Hls
48340 MI Metro
48340 Pontiac
48341 Pontiac
48342 Pontiac
48343 Pontiac
48346 Clarkston
48346 Independence
48346 Independence Township
48347 Clarkston
48348 Clarkston
48348 Independence
48348 Independence Township
48350 Davisburg
48350 Springfield Township
48350 Springfld Township
48353 Hartland
48356 Highland
48356 Highland Township
48357 Highland
48357 Highland Township
48359 Lake Orion
48359 Orion
48359 Orion Township
48360 Lake Orion
48360 Orion
48360 Orion Township
48361 Lake Orion
48362 Lake Orion
48362 Orion
48362 Orion Township
48363 Oakland
48363 Oakland Township
48366 Lakeville
48367 Addison Township
48367 Leonard
48370 Oxford
48371 Oxford
48374 Novi
48375 Novi
48375 Novi Township
48376 Novi
48377 Novi
48380 Milford
48380 Milford Township
48381 Milford
48381 Milford Township
48382 Commerce
48382 Commerce Township
48383 White Lake
48386 White Lake
48387 Union Lake
48390 Commerce
48390 Commerce Township
48390 Walled Lake
48390 Wolverine Lake
48391 Walled Lake
48393 Wixom
48397 Us Army Tank-Auto Command
48397 Warren
48401 Applegate
48410 Argyle
48411 Atlas
48412 Attica
48412 Lum
48413 Bad Axe
48414 Bancroft
48415 Birch Run
48416 Brown City
48417 Burt
48418 Byron
48419 Carsonville
48420 Clio
48421 Columbiaville
48422 Croswell
48423 Davison
48426 Decker
48427 Deckerville
48428 Dryden
48429 Durand
48429 Vernon City
48430 Fenton
48432 Filion
48433 Flushing
48434 Forestville
48435 Fostoria
48436 Gaines
48437 Genesee
48438 Goodrich
48439 Gr Blanc
48439 Grand Blanc
48440 Hadley
48441 Harbor Beach
48442 Holly
48444 Imlay
48444 Imlay City
48445 Kinde
48446 Lake Nepessing
48446 Lapeer
48449 Lennon
48450 Lexington
48451 Linden
48453 Marlette
48454 Melvin
48455 Metamora
48456 Minden
48456 Minden City
48457 Montrose
48458 Mount Morris
48460 New Lothrop
48461 North Branch
48462 Brandon
48462 Ortonville
48463 Otisville
48464 Otter Lake
48465 Minden City
48465 Palms
48466 Peck
48467 Grindstone City
48467 Pointe Aux Barques
48467 Port Austin
48468 Port Hope
48469 Port Sanilac
48470 Ruth
48471 Sandusky
48472 Snover
48473 Rankin
48473 Swartz Creek
48475 Ubly
48476 Vernon
48480 Grand Blanc
48501 Flint
48502 Flint
48503 Flint
48504 Flint
48504 Mott Park
48504 Northwest
48505 Flint
48506 Flint
48506 Northeast
48507 Flint
48509 Burton
48509 Flint
48509 Northeast
48519 Burton
48519 Flint
48519 Southeast
48529 Burton
48529 Flint
48529 Southeast
48531 Flint
48531 Northwest
48532 Flint
48532 Northwest
48550 Buick City
48550 Buick Oldsmobile Cadillac
48550 Flint
48551 Flint
48551 Gm Truck and Bus
48552 Chevrolet Pontiac Canada
48552 Flint
48553 Flint
48553 Gm Truck and Bus
48554 Flint
48554 Gm Service Parts Operations
48555 Delphi West
48555 Flint
48556 Delphi East
48556 Flint
48557 Flint
48557 GM Tech Center
48557 Gm Vehicle Development Center
48601 Saginaw
48602 Saginaw
48603 Saginaw
48604 Saginaw
48605 Saginaw
48606 Saginaw
48607 Saginaw
48608 Saginaw
48609 Saginaw
48610 Alger
48611 Auburn
48612 Beaverton
48613 Bentley
48613 Rhodes
48614 Brant
48615 Breckenridge
48616 Chesaning
48617 Clare
48618 Coleman
48619 Comins
48620 Edenville
48621 Fairview
48622 Farwell
48623 Freeland
48624 Gladwin
48625 Harrison
48626 Hemlock
48627 Higgins Lake
48628 Hope
48629 Houghton Lake
48630 Hghtn Lk Heights
48630 Houghton Lake Heights
48630 Htn Lk Hghts
48631 Kawkawlin
48632 Lake
48632 Lake Station
48633 Lake George
48634 Linwood
48635 Lupton
48636 Luzerne
48637 Merrill
48638 Boardwalk
48638 Saginaw
48640 Midland
48641 Midland
48642 Midland
48647 Mio
48649 Oakley
48650 Pinconning
48651 Prudenville
48652 Rhodes
48653 Roscommon
48654 Rose City
48655 Saint Charles
48656 Saint Helen
48657 Sanford
48658 Standish
48659 Sterling
48661 West Branch
48662 Wheeler
48663 Ameritech
48663 AT&T
48663 Saginaw
48667 Dow Chemical Mi Division
48667 Midland
48670 Mid Michigan Reg Med Center
48670 Midland
48670 Midland Hospital Center
48674 Dow Chemical USA
48674 Midland
48686 Dow Corning Corporation
48686 Midland
48701 Akron
48703 Au Gres
48705 Barton City
48706 Bay City
48707 Bay City
48708 Bay City
48710 Bay City
48710 University Center
48720 Bay Port
48721 Black River
48722 Bridgeport
48723 Caro
48724 Carrollton
48725 Caseville
48725 Point Elizabeth
48725 Port Elizabeth
48726 Cass City
48727 Clifford
48728 Curran
48729 Deford
48730 East Tawas
48731 Elkton
48732 Essexville
48733 Fairgrove
48734 Frankenmuth
48735 Gagetown
48736 Gilford
48737 Glennie
48738 Greenbush
48739 Hale
48740 Harrisville
48741 Kingston
48742 Lincoln
48743 Long Lake
48744 Mayville
48745 Mikado
48746 Millington
48747 Munger
48748 National City
48749 Omer
48750 Au Sable
48750 Oscoda
48754 Owendale
48755 Pigeon
48755 Sand Point
48756 Prescott
48756 Roos
48757 Reese
48758 Richville
48759 Sebewaing
48760 Silverwood
48761 South Branch
48762 Spruce
48763 Tawas City
48764 Tawas City
48765 Turner
48766 Twining
48767 Unionville
48768 Vassar
48769 Tuscola
48769 Vassar
48770 Whittemore
48787 Frankenmuth
48787 Frankenmuth Mutual Ins Co
48801 Alma
48802 Alma
48802 Total Petroleum
48804 Mount Pleasant
48805 Okemos
48806 Ashley
48807 Bannister
48808 Bath
48809 Belding
48811 Carson City
48812 Cedar Lake
48813 Charlotte
48815 Clarksville
48816 Cohoctah
48817 Corunna
48818 Crystal
48819 Dansville
48820 De Witt
48820 Dewitt
48821 Dimondale
48822 Eagle
48823 East Lansing
48824 East Lansing
48825 East Lansing
48826 East Lansing
48827 Eaton Rapids
48829 Edmore
48830 Elm Hall
48831 Carland
48831 Elsie
48832 Elwell
48833 Eureka
48834 Fenwick
48835 Fowler
48836 Fowlerville
48837 Grand Ledge
48838 Greenville
48840 Haslett
48841 Henderson
48841 Owosso
48842 Holt
48843 Howell
48844 Howell
48845 Hubbardston
48846 Ionia
48847 Ithaca
48848 Laingsburg
48849 Lake Odessa
48850 Lakeview
48851 Lyons
48852 McBrides
48853 Maple Rapids
48854 Mason
48855 Howell
48856 Middleton
48857 Morrice
48858 Mount Pleasant
48859 Central Michigan University
48859 Mount Pleasant
48860 Muir
48861 Mulliken
48862 North Star
48863 Howell
48863 Oak Grove
48864 Okemos
48865 Orleans
48866 Ovid
48867 Owosso
48870 Palo
48871 Perrinton
48872 Perry
48873 Pewamo
48874 Pompeii
48875 Portland
48876 Potterville
48877 Riverdale
48878 Rosebush
48879 Saint Johns
48880 Saint Louis
48881 Saranac
48882 Shaftsburg
48883 Shepherd
48884 Sheridan
48885 Sidney
48886 Six Lakes
48887 Belding
48887 Smyrna
48888 Stanton
48889 Sumner
48890 Sunfield
48891 Vestaburg
48892 Webberville
48893 Lake Isabella
48893 Weidman
48894 Westphalia
48895 Williamston
48896 Winn
48897 Woodland
48901 Lansing
48906 Lansing
48908 Lansing
48909 Lansing
48910 Lansing
48911 Lansing
48912 Lansing
48913 Lansing
48913 State of Michigan
48915 Lansing
48916 Lansing
48916 Lucky Losers
48917 Lansing
48918 Lansing
48918 Secretary of State
48919 Lansing
48919 Lansing State Journal
48921 Lansing
48921 Oldsmobile
48922 Lansing
48922 Mi Department of Revenue
48924 Lansing
48929 Lansing
48929 Mi Department of Revenue
48930 Lansing
48930 State of Mich Dept Treasury
48933 Lansing
48937 Consumers Energy
48937 Lansing
48950 Lansing
48950 Michigan Bankard
48951 Jackson National Life Ins Co
48951 Lansing
48956 Lansing
48956 Mi Department of Revenue
48980 Lansing
48980 Vehicle License Plates
49001 Kalamazoo
49002 Kalamazoo
49002 Portage
49003 Kalamazoo
49004 Kalamazoo
49004 Parchment
49005 Kalamazoo
49006 Kalamazoo
49006 Westwood
49007 Kalamazoo
49008 Kalamazoo
49009 Kalamazoo
49009 Westwood
49010 Allegan
49011 Athens
49012 Augusta
49013 Bangor
49014 Battle Creek
49015 Battle Creek
49015 Springfield
49016 Battle Creek
49017 Battle Creek
49018 Battle Creek
49019 Kalamazoo
49020 Bedford
49021 Bellevue
49022 Benton Harbor
49023 Benton Harbor
49024 Kalamazoo
49024 Portage
49026 Bloomingdale
49027 Breedsville
49028 Bronson
49029 Burlington
49030 Burr Oak
49031 Cassopolis
49032 Centreville
49033 Ceresco
49034 Climax
49035 Cloverdale
49036 Coldwater
49037 Battle Creek
49037 Springfield
49038 Coloma
49039 Coloma
49039 Hagar Shores
49040 Colon
49041 Comstock
49042 Constantine
49043 Covert
49045 Decatur
49046 Delton
49047 Dowagiac
49048 Kalamazoo
49050 Dowling
49051 East Leroy
49052 Fulton
49053 Galesburg
49055 Gobles
49056 Grand Jct
49056 Grand Junction
49057 Hartford
49058 Hastings
49060 Hickory Corners
49060 Hickory Crnrs
49061 Jones
49062 Kendall
49063 Lacota
49064 Lawrence
49065 Lawton
49066 Leonidas
49067 Marcellus
49068 Marshall
49069 Marshall
49069 State Farm Ins
49070 Martin
49071 Mattawan
49072 Mendon
49073 Nashville
49074 Nazareth
49075 Nottawa
49076 Olivet
49077 Oshtemo
49078 Otsego
49079 Paw Paw
49080 Plainwell
49081 Portage
49082 Quincy
49083 Richland
49084 Riverside
49085 Saint Joe
49085 Saint Joseph
49087 Schoolcraft
49088 Scotts
49089 Sherwood
49090 South Haven
49091 Sturgis
49092 Tekonsha
49093 Three Rivers
49094 Union City
49095 Vandalia
49096 Vermontville
49097 Vicksburg
49098 Watervliet
49099 Mottville
49099 White Pigeon
49101 Baroda
49102 Berrien Center
49103 Berrien Sprgs
49103 Berrien Springs
49104 Andrews University
49104 Berrien Sprgs
49104 Berrien Springs
49106 Bridgman
49107 Buchanan
49107 Glendora
49111 Eau Claire
49112 Edwardsburg
49113 Galien
49115 Harbert
49116 Lakeside
49117 Grand Beach
49117 Michiana
49117 New Buffalo
49119 New Troy
49120 Niles
49121 Niles
49121 Simplicity Pattern
49125 Sawyer
49126 Sodus
49127 Stevensville
49128 Three Oaks
49129 Union Pier
49130 Edwardsburg
49130 Union
49201 Jackson
49202 Jackson
49203 Jackson
49204 Jackson
49220 Addison
49221 Adrian
49221 Cadmus
49224 Albion
49227 Allen
49228 Blissfield
49229 Britton
49229 Ridgeway
49230 Brooklyn
49232 Camden
49233 Cement City
49234 Clarklake
49235 Clayton
49235 Clayton Township
49236 Clinton
49237 Concord
49238 Deerfield
49239 Frontier
49240 Grass Lake
49241 Hanover
49242 Hillsdale
49245 Homer
49246 Horton
49247 Hudson
49247 Rollin
49248 Jasper
49249 Jerome
49250 Jonesville
49251 Leslie
49252 Litchfield
49253 Manitou Beach
49254 Michigan Center
49255 Montgomery
49256 Morenci
49256 Seneca
49257 Moscow
49258 Mosherville
49259 Munith
49261 Napoleon
49262 North Adams
49263 Norvell
49264 Onondaga
49265 Onsted
49266 Osseo
49267 Ottawa Lake
49268 Palmyra
49269 Parma
49270 Petersburg
49271 Pittsford
49271 Prattville
49272 Pleasant Lake
49274 Reading
49276 Riga
49277 Rives Jct
49277 Rives Junction
49279 Sand Creek
49281 Cement City
49281 Somerset
49282 Somerset Center
49283 Spring Arbor
49284 Duck Lake
49284 Springport
49285 Stockbridge
49286 Tecumseh
49287 Tipton
49288 Waldron
49289 Weston
49301 Ada
49302 Alto
49303 Bailey
49304 Baldwin
49305 Barryton
49306 Belmont
49307 Big Rapids
49309 Bitely
49309 Woodland Park
49310 Blanchard
49310 Millbrook
49311 Bradley
49312 Brohman
49314 Burnips
49315 Byron Center
49315 Byron Township
49316 Caledonia
49316 Dutton
49317 Cannonsburg
49318 Casnovia
49319 Cedar Springs
49320 Chippewa Lake
49321 Comstock Park
49322 Coral
49323 Dorr
49325 Freeport
49326 Gowen
49327 Grant
49328 Hopkins
49329 Howard City
49330 Kent City
49331 Lowell
49332 Mecosta
49333 Middleville
49333 Middlevle
49333 Yankee Springs
49335 Moline
49336 Morley
49337 Croton
49337 Newaygo
49338 Paris
49339 Pierson
49340 Remus
49341 Rockford
49342 Rodney
49343 Sand Lake
49344 Shelbyville
49345 Sparta
49346 Canadian Lake
49346 Canadian Lakes
49346 Stanwood
49347 Trufant
49348 Wayland
49349 White Cloud
49351 Rockford
49351 Wolverine World Wide
49355 Ada
49355 Amway Corp
49356 Ada
49356 Amway Corp
49357 Ada
49357 Amway Corp
49401 Allendale
49402 Branch
49403 Conklin
49404 Coopersville
49404 Coppersville
49404 Eastmanville
49405 Custer
49406 Douglas
49408 Fennville
49409 Ferrysburg
49410 Fountain
49411 Free Soil
49412 Fremont
49413 Fremont
49413 Gerber Products Inc
49415 Fruitport
49416 Glenn
49417 Grand Haven
49418 Grandville
49418 Wyoming
49419 Hamilton
49420 Hart
49421 Hesperia
49422 Holland
49423 Holland
49424 Holland
49425 Brunswick
49425 Holton
49426 Hudsonville
49427 Jamestown
49428 Georgetown Township
49428 Georgetown Tp
49428 Jenison
49429 Jenison
49430 Lamont
49431 Ludington
49434 Macatawa
49435 Marne
49436 Mears
49436 Silver Lake
49437 Montague
49440 Meskegon
49440 Muskegon
49441 Meskegon
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Why is zip code data on an environmental science site?
In 2002 I was working on a project that correlated pollution and income for zip codes across the United States. Visitors told me the data files were very useful so I left them on the site and now update the postal information on a periodic basis even though the focus of the site is conservation.
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Recent environmental features
How rainforest shamans treat disease
(11/10/2009) Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants by indigenous shamans in places around the world, including the Amazon. But few have reported on the actual process by which traditional healers diagnose and treat disease. A new paper, published in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, moves beyond the cataloging of plant use to examine the diseases and conditions treated in two indigenous villages deep in the rainforests of Suriname. The research, which based on data on more than 20,000 patient visits to traditional clinics over a four-year period, finds that shamans in the Trio tribe have a complex understanding of disease concepts, one that is comparable to Western medical science. Trio medicine men recognize at least 75 distinct disease conditions—ranging from common ailments like fever [këike] to specific and rare medical conditions like Bell's palsy [ehpijanejan] and distinguish between old (endemic) and new (introduced since contact with the outside world) illnesses. In an interview with mongabay.com, Lead author Christopher Herndon, currently a reproductive medicine physician at the University of California, San Francisco, says the findings are a testament to the under-appreciated healing prowess of indigenous shaman.
Saving the world's rarest wolf
(11/09/2009) Living on the roof of Africa, the Ethiopian wolf is one of the world's rarest carnivores, if not the rarest! Trapped on a few mountain islands rising over 4,000 meters above sea level on either/both sides of the Great Rift Valley, this unique canid has so far survived millennia of human-animal interactions in one of Africa's most densely populated rural lands. But the threat of climate change and a shifting agriculture frontier may require new conservation measures, according to Argentine-born Claudio Sillero, the world's foremost expert on the Ethiopian wolf, who has spent two decades championing this rare species.
Conservation and Carbon in Borneo’s Heart and Ours
(11/04/2009) My friend Rezal Kusumaatmadja contacted me in July to ask if I could join him and some of his associates for a couple of days in the village Mendawai, located along the Katingan River in south central Kalimantan. The purpose of the gathering was to bring everyone in the group up to date on progress and challenges related to the Katingan Peat Conservation Project, as well as to give the group an opportunity to meet one another. The Katingan Project aims to create a forest-based carbon containment facility defined and guided by REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Destruction in the developing world) principles and methodology. Currently, nearly 25% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions are caused by felling, burning and converting the world’s remaining primary forests. While areas surrounding the Katingan peat forest vividly express this statistic, Katingan is part of a growing strategy to reverse the trend. The Katingan project endeavors to transform conservation into a product that might offer strong competition against illegal logging and expansion of industrial agricultural plantations - whose practices cause enormous emissions of greenhouse gasses, as well as destroying biodiversity, depleting and polluting watersheds and corroding native cultures.
REDD in Colombia: using forests to finance conservation and communities in Colombia's Choco, a former war zone
(11/03/2009) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a climate change mechanism proposed by the U.N., has been widely lauded for its potential to simultaneously deliver a variety of benefits at multiple scales. But serious questions remain, especially in regard to local communities. Will they benefit from REDD? While much lip-service is paid to community involvement in REDD projects, many developers approach local communities as an afterthought. Priorities lie in measuring the carbon sequestered in a forest area, lining up financing, and making marketing arrangements, rather than working out what local people — the ones who are often cutting down trees — actually need in order to keep forests standing. This sets the stage for conflict, which reduces the likelihood that a project will successfully reduce deforestation for the 15-30 year life of a forest carbon project. Brodie Ferguson, a Stanford University-trained anthropologist whose work has focused on forced displacement of rural communities in conflict regions in Colombia, understands this well. Ferguson is working to establish a REDD project in an unlikely place: Colombia's Chocó, a region of diverse coastal ecosystems with some of the highest levels of endemism in the world that until just a few years ago was the domain of anti-government guerillas and right-wing death squads.
Forests versus oil palm plantations in Sumatra
(10/14/2009) A chainsaw chugs into life and tears into the trunk of a tree as tall as a two-story house. Petrol and man work together as the chain sets its teeth into the wood and edges its way through. The tree creaks, leans, and falls with a great crash to a backdrop of whoops and cheers. The sight and sound of tree felling is common in Indonesia, the country with the highest rate of deforestation in the world. The destruction of forests in this archipelago, draped like an emerald necklace across the equator, can be measured in hectares per minute. Today, though, is a good day for the conservationists.
Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra
(09/24/2009) Of the world's two species of orangutan, a great ape that shares 96 percent of man's genetic makeup, the Sumatran orangutan is considerably more endangered than its cousin in Borneo. Today there are believed to be fewer than 7,000 Sumatran orangutans in the wild, a consequence of the wildlife trade, hunting, and accelerating destruction of their native forest habitat by loggers, small-scale farmers, and agribusiness. Gunung Leuser National Park in North Sumatra is one of the last strongholds for the species, serving as a refuge among paper pulp concessions and rubber and oil palm plantations. While orangutans are relatively well protected in areas around tourist centers, they are affected by poorly regulated interactions with tourists, which have increased the risk of disease and resulted in high mortality rates among infants near tourist centers like Bukit Lawang. Further, orangutans that range outside the park or live in remote areas or on its margins face conflicts with developers, including loggers, who may or may not know about the existence of the park, and plantation workers, who may kill any orangutans they encounter in the fields. Working to improve the fate of orangutans that find their way into plantations and unprotected community areas is the Orangutan Information Center (OIC), a local NGO that collaborates with the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS).
Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist
(09/22/2009) Prince Charles of Great Britain has emerged as one of the world’s highest-profile promoters of a scheme that could finally put an end to destruction of tropical rainforests. The Prince’s Rainforest Project, launched in 2007, is promoting awareness of the role deforestation plays in climate change—it accounts for nearly a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions. The project also publicizes the multitude of benefits tropical forests provide, including maintenance of rainfall, biodiversity, and sustainable livelihoods for millions of people. But the initiative goes beyond merely raising awareness. Prince Charles is using his considerable influence to bring political and business leaders together to devise and support a plan to provide emergency funding to save rainforests. Tony Juniper, one of Britain’s best-known environmentalists and Special Adviser to the project, spoke about Prince Charles' efforts in an interview with mongabay.com.
Community engagement is key to saving the rarest zebra
(09/14/2009) Efforts to protect the world's largest and rarest species of zebra — Grévy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) — hinge on engaging communities to lead conservation in their region, says a Kenyan conservationist. Belinda Low, Executive Director of the Nairobi-based Grevy's Zebra Trust, says her group's programs, which employ members of local communities as scouts and conservation workers, are helping maintain dialog between communities while providing new opportunities for education and employment. Grevy's Zebra Trust is working with communities to plan livestock grazing so that it can be used as a tool to replenish the land, rather than degrade it
Sheikh goes from collector to conservationist in effort to save the world's rarest parrot
(09/10/2009) Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP) is a private conservation and endangered species breeding-center located in the Arabian gulf State of Qatar. Founded by Sheikh Saoud Bin Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Thani, the facility focuses on work with threatened antelope and bird species. Although AWWP has had great success with numerous endangered animals, the Preserve is most noted for developing a captive breeding program for the Spix's Macaw, a species of parrot now extinct in the wild and once considered "the world's most endangered bird species."
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Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon
(09/08/2009) While you're browsing the mall for running shoes, the Amazon rainforest is probably the farthest thing from your mind. Perhaps it shouldn't be. The globalization of commodity supply chains has created links between consumer products and distant ecosystems like the Amazon. Shoes sold in downtown Manhattan may have been assembled in Vietnam using leather supplied from a Brazilian processor that subcontracted to a rancher in the Amazon. But while demand for these products is currently driving environmental degradation, this connection may also hold the key to slowing the destruction of Earth's largest rainforest.
Activists target Brazil's largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching
(09/08/2009) Perhaps unexpectedly for a group with roots in confrontational activism, Amigos da Terra - Amazônia Brasileira is calling for a rather pragmatic approach to address to cattle ranching, the largest driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The solution, says Roberto Smeraldi, founder and director of Amigos da Terra, involves improving the productivity of cattle ranching, thereby allowing forest to recover without sacrificing jobs or income; establishing a moratorium on new clearing; and recognizing the economic values of maintaining the ecological functions of Earth's largest rainforest.
Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak
(09/03/2009) Sarawak, land of mystery, legend, and remote upriver tribes. Paradise of lush rainforest and colossal bat-filled caves. Home to unique and bizarre wildlife including flying lemurs, bearcats, orang-utans and rat-eating plants. Center of heavy industry and powerhouse of Southeast Asia. Come again? This jarring image could be the future of Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, should government plans for a complex of massive hydroelectric dams comes to fruition. The plan, which calls for a network of 12 hydroelectric dams to be built across Sarawak's rainforests by 2020, is proceeding despite strong opposition from Sarawak's citizens, environmental groups, and indigenous human rights organizations. By 2037, as many as 51 dams could be constructed.
Saving Africa's 'unicorn', the okapi
(09/02/2009) The giraffe is one of Africa's most recognizable animals, but its shy and elusive forest cousin, the okapi, was so little known that until just over a century ago the western world believed it was a mythical beast, an African unicorn. Today, a shroud of mystery still envelops the okapi, an animal that looks like a cross between a zebra, a donkey, and a giraffe. But what is known is cause for concern. Its habitat, long protected by its remoteness, was the site of horrific civil strife, with disease, famine, and conflict claiming untold numbers of Congolese over the past decade. Now, as a semblance of peace has settled over Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the okapi's prospects have further dimmed, for its home is increasingly seen as a rich source of timber, minerals, and meat to help the war-torn country rebuild. In an effort to ensure that the okapi does not become a victim of economic recovery, the Okapi Conservation Project (OCP) is working to protect the okapi and its habitat. Founded by John Lukas in 1987, well before the conflict, OCP today manages the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a 13,700-square-kilometer tract of wilderness in the Ituri Forest of northeastern DRC.
Mining and biodiversity offsets in Madagascar: Conservation or 'Conservation Opportunities?'
(08/30/2009) Rio Tinto's ilmenite mine in southeastern Madagascar is among the largest on the planet. At peak capacity, its owners say, it could produce as much as 2 million tons of the stuff—worth roughly $100 a ton—each year, to be shipped off and smelted abroad. What's left of it after refining—some 60 percent of the ore that arrives from Madagascar—will be sold for $2000 a ton as titanium dioxide, a pigment used in everything from white paint and tennis court lines to sunscreen and toothpaste. At current levels of demand, the Fort Dauphin mine will provide 9 percent of the world supply over the next 40 years, amounting to more than $60 billion of titanium dioxide. Even that is a conservative estimate: demand for ilmenite has been growing at 3-5 percent annually, with major mines slated to close in coming years and few untapped sources known worldwide.
Solar powered conservation
(08/25/2009) Electricity can be a difficult commodity to procure in the remote areas where conservationists often work. Typically field researchers and wildlife rangers rely on gas-powered generators, which require imported fuel, often produce noxious fumes and disruptive noise, and can be costly to maintain. A better option, especially in sun-drenched parts of the world, is solar. Clean and silent, with no need for supplemental fuel, solar seems like an ideal fit for conservation work except for one major drawback: cost. But Stephen Gold – Solar and Technology Manager for Wildlife Conservation Network has been working to overcome that obstacle.
World's rarest camel survived nuclear tests but today threatened by hunger for its meat
(08/24/2009) Camels are among the most recognizable animals on the planet, yet few realize that wild populations are at a high risk of extinction. Of the world's two camel species, the Dromedary camel, characterized by a single hump, has already gone extinct in the wild. The second species, the two-humped Bactrian camel, was on a similar trajectory until very recently, but still less than 1,000 of the world's 1.4 million Bactrians are wild. The abundance of domesticated Bactrian camels relative to wild camels doesn’t address the question of whether it matters if another species of camels goes extinct. John Hare, founder and director of the Wild Camel Protection Foundation, argues that it does. Hare says the world will be a poorer place if wild Bactrian camels are allowed to follow their cousins into the sunset.
Rehabilitation not enough to solve orangutan crisis in Indonesia
(08/20/2009) A baby orangutan ambles across the grass at the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation’s Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation center in Central Kalimantan, in the heart of Indonesian Borneo. The ape pauses, picks up a stick and makes his way over to a plastic log, lined with small holes. Breaking the stick in two, he pokes one end into a hole in an effort to extract honey that has been deposited by a conservation worker. His expression shows the tool’s use has been fruitful. But he is not alone. To his right another orangutan has turned half a coconut shell into a helmet, two others wrestle on the lawn, and another youngster scales a papaya tree. There are dozens of orangutans, all of which are about the same age. Just outside the compound, dozens of younger orangutans are getting climbing lessons from the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) staff, while still younger orangutans are being fed milk from bottles in a nearby nursery. Still more orangutans—teenagers and adults—can be found on “Orangutan Island” beyond the center’s main grounds. Meanwhile several recently wild orangutans sit in cages. This is a waiting game. BOS hopes to eventually release all of these orangutans back into their natural habitat—the majestic rainforests and swampy peatlands of Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. But for many, this is a fate that may never be realized.
World's rarest tree kangaroo gets help from those who once hunted it
(08/17/2009) The world's rarest tree kangaroo is in the midst of a comeback in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. On the brink of extinction in 2001 with a population estimated at fewer than 100 individuals, Scott's Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus scottae), or the tenkile, is recovering, thanks to the efforts of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance to motivate local communities to reduce hunting and respect critical forest habitat. The tenkile Conservation Alliance, led by Australians Jim and Jean Thomas, works to provide alternative sources of protein and raise environmental awareness among local communities.
Economic crisis threatens conservation programs and endangered species, an interview with Paula Kahumbu of WildlifeDirect
(08/17/2009) Founded in 2004 by legendary conservationist Richard Leakey, WildlifeDirect is an innovative member of the conservation community. WildlifeDirect is really a meta-organization: it gathers together hundreds of conservation initiatives who blog regularly about the trials and joys of practicing on-the-ground conservation. From stories of gorillas reintroduced in the wild to tracking elephants in the Okavango Delta to saving sea turtles in Sumatra, WildlifeDirect provides the unique experience of actually hearing directly from scientists and conservationists worldwide.
Are we on the brink of saving rainforests?
(07/22/2009) Until now saving rainforests seemed like an impossible mission. But the world is now warming to the idea that a proposed solution to help address climate change could offer a new way to unlock the value of forest without cutting it down.Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, members of the Surui tribe are developing a scheme that will reward them for protecting their rainforest home from encroachment by ranchers and illegal loggers. The project, initiated by the Surui themselves, will bring jobs as park guards and deliver health clinics, computers, and schools that will help youths retain traditional knowledge and cultural ties to the forest. Surprisingly, the states of California, Wisconsin and Illinois may finance the endeavor as part of their climate change mitigation programs.
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