Jun 1, 2025 | Outdoors
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...
May 13, 2025 | Outdoors
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...
May 10, 2025 | Outdoors
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...
May 8, 2025 | Outdoors
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...
May 4, 2025 | Outdoors
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...
Apr 19, 2025 | Outdoors
By Tim Callahan The mouth of the Tahquamenon River south of Paradise is where this painting took place. As soon as the river opens up into Whitefish Bay, they show up. The first wave of hardy diver ducks—like goldeneyes, buffleheads, and mergansers—stage here on their...
