Dec 29, 2025 | Outdoors
The Audubon Christmas Bird Count is a community science program with a century of history behind it. It brings together bird lovers of all ages and skill levels to spend a day outdoors, sharing their observations and contributing to a hemispheric snapshot of winter...
Dec 18, 2025 | Outdoors
Nine months after two cougar kittens were documented in the Upper Peninsula, a new trail camera photo indicates the elusive animals are still alive and living with their mother. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources verified the Dec. 6 photo of an adult cougar...
Dec 17, 2025 | Outdoors
By Bill Cook Timber harvest is one of the most regenerative dynamics in our Lake States forests. Without disturbance, forests have difficulty regenerating, maintaining vigor, and optimizing habitat conditions. Harvest provides intentional “times and places” for...
Nov 25, 2025 | Outdoors
By Kristie Sitar Area youth: The Newberry Department of Natural Resources (DNR) office is launching the fourth survey to learn what youth enjoy outdoors and how the DNR can help. Survey results from previous years have guided us to provide two youth trapping...
Nov 16, 2025 | Outdoors
Residents looking to save on heating costs this fall can collect firewood from select state-managed lands with a Michigan Department of Natural Resources fuelwood permit, valid through Dec. 31. The permits cost $20 and allow individuals to gather dead and downed wood...
Nov 12, 2025 | Outdoors
By Andy Henion Communications representative, Wildlife Division Michigan Department of Natural Resources Building on a longstanding partnership with Indigenous nations, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is intensifying its commitment to sowing manoomin, a...
