Michigan Free Fishing weekend set for first of June

Michigan DNR Two days twice a year, families and friends can enjoy one of Michigan’s premier outdoor activities, Michigan fishing, for FREE! The summer Free Fishing Weekend is scheduled for June 7-8. On these dates, all fishing license fees are waived for two...

Flex your LEGO skills for the Seney Refuge

What can we create when we combine wildlife, nature, and bricks? Let’s find out! Builders of all ages and experience levels are invited to build a piece to show they are Wild About Seney. Builds could be a landscape from Seney Refuge, a specific species at Seney...

Watch for migrating turtles on the roads

By TOM GONIEA Fisheries biologist, Fisheries Division Michigan Department of Natural Resources As spring transitions to summer and the warm temperatures roll in, Michiganders weary of winter excitedly begin adventuring across the state. It’s a time of renewal and...

Knock on wood: An essential, everyday material

By Bill Cook MSU Extension Forester and Biologist, retired Wood products are part of the lifeblood of our existence. We may not often think about wood in our lives but it is essential and wood shows-up in thousands of ways in many forms. There are too many essentials...

A road trip to Seney

By Tim Callahan It’s the peak of spring waterfowl migration here in the U.P. and it’s my first field research trip to Seney National Wildlife Refuge to paint and photograph ducks. I don’t live too far from there, and I’ve got all day. It’s still morning, so I decide...

Great Lakes fishery brings in buckets of money

By Katie Finkbeiner Capital News Service Recreational fishing trips in the Great Lakes are worth $884 million per year, according to a recent study. John Whitehead, a professor of economics at Appalachian State University and lead researcher of the study, said it was...