Dec 29, 2021 | Outdoors
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Straits Area Snowmobile Club have reached a grant agreement for trail grooming over 101 miles of state-managed trails in the southeastern Upper Peninsula. Recently, the DNR alerted snowmobilers to avoid the area as...
Dec 8, 2021 | Outdoors
Temperatures are dropping and birdsong has all but disappeared, but not all Michigan birds fly south to warmer climates. In addition to the birds that stay year-round, Michigan welcomes many visitors from the north in the colder months, making winter an exciting time...
Nov 17, 2021 | Outdoors
By John Pepin Michigan Department of Natural Resources Off the edge of a parking lot at Van Riper State Park, an interpretive display showcases information and artifacts resulting from one of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ most shining achievements. The...
Nov 10, 2021 | Outdoors
By Nancy Warren I have been conducting free educational wolf programs across the Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin for nearly 30 years. Mostly, the rooms are full of those who want to learn about wolves but occasionally, there is someone sitting in the back with arms...
Nov 3, 2021 | Outdoors
By Bill Cook MSU Extension biologist “Nature knows best” is a popular mythology, but nature doesn’t “know” anything. Rather, nature is a set of processes, both innate and human-induced, that impact the succession, or orderly change, of forests over time. That...
Oct 27, 2021 | Outdoors
Seney National Wildlife Refuge received $12.5 million in Great American Outdoor Act Funds, which are being used to work on several refuge structures, which have been on a maintenance backlog awaiting funding. The largest portion of the project affects the current...
