Take them hunting

Sep 15, 2021 | Outdoors

By Caitlynn Canfield Mid-September brings the annual Michigan Liberty Hunt, more commonly known as the Youth Hunt. For some of us, this may be a controversial topic. For others, it’s just a time to bring our local youth into the woods to practice and pass down...

DNR postpones full reopening of some facilities until October

Sep 8, 2021 | Outdoors

Michigan Department of Natural Resources customer service centers and certain field offices will remain on a three-days-per-week open to the public schedule – Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays – until at least October 4. The three-day schedule for these facilities...

What a catch!

Sep 1, 2021 | Outdoors

Sterling Heights native Landen Curtis, 14, caught this 42-inch, 15-pound northern pike in Big Manistique Lake on August 3. After weighing and measuring the massive fish, he released it back into the lake. “I asked him if he wanted to have it mounted and he said...

Have a bushel of fun picking pine cones

Aug 25, 2021 | Outdoors

Looking for an outdoor side hustle? Collecting a bushel of pine cones next month will net you $75 and help the Michigan Department of Natural Resources plant trees in state forests. Sept. 1 – 30, 2021, you can pick red pine cones and drop them off by appointment...

Watch this: Fall back into birding

Aug 18, 2021 | Outdoors

Fall migration is truly a magical time, as waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, songbirds and raptors pass through Michigan on their trips south to their wintering grounds. Michigan lies at the intersection of two migration “superhighways,” the Mississippi and Atlantic,...

New state-record Chinook salmon tops 47 pounds

Aug 11, 2021 | Outdoors

Four men, some wearing baseball caps, pose with a new state-record Chinook salmon on a scale. Using a Moonshine raspberry carbon spoon lure this past weekend, an angler from Ortonville, Michigan, turned in a new state-record fish! Luis Ricardo Hernandez Martinez was...