The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said that the state’s wolf population has remained relatively stable over the past nine years, with the most recent survey completed this past winter. DNR Wildlife Division staff who participated in this latest survey...
The Michigan Natural Resources Commission yesterday approved a new package of deer regulations at the commission’s regular monthly meeting, which was conducted in an online and conference call format due to COVID-19 public health and safety concerns. Michigan...
By Dan Hardenbrook After the long winter, the COVID-19 Crisis, and a state shutdown, the team at Tahquamenon is ready for the opening of the 2020 summer camping season. “It’s been a long time coming. We’ve been getting ready. Finishing up some last minute water...
By Bill Cook As a kid walking to school on rainy days, I would routinely pick-up nightcrawlers stranded on the pavement, and toss them back into a yard or roadside. Now, I stomp on them. While I don’t think that my heart has hardened against innocent animals, I’ve...
By Carol Stiffler They’re almost here. Monarch butterflies are on their annual migration up from Mexico, where they spent the winter packed together in oyamel fir trees, waiting for spring. According to the Journey North organization, which relies on human spotters to...
By Carol Stiffler Now that our tiny, encore winter is over, the weather is just right for morel mushrooms to appear on the forest floor. Popping up under last year’s leaves, the prized fungi are already luring people into the woods. Seney resident Johnny Bowler did a...
