LAKE LINDEN – Michigan Department of Natural Resources hosted an open house at the Lake Linden High School auditorium Wednesday to discuss conceptual designs for the Houghton-Douglass Falls scenic site. The tallest waterfall in Michigan at roughly 110 feet, the site has drawn visitors for ...
“I live in the shade of a forest of green in the wildest of woodlands that you’ve ever seen.” – Gordon Lightfoot I have recently been thinking about why some places I visit for the first time tend to make a lasting impression on me and others don’t. It’s kind of odd. For ...
Supporters and partners joined the Michigan Department of Natural Resources today in Houghton County to celebrate the reopening of a roughly 8-mile segment of snowmobile and off-road vehicle trail devastated by a historic storm in 2018. In what is likely the Michigan DNR’s largest trail ...
With the spirit of thanksgiving blowing across the landscape this week, pushed by a cold Canadian wind, I was reminded recently of something I have been truly thankful for over many years, though it’s not something I think about in detail too often. My recollections began when talking with a hunter who was having his deer checked at the DNR customer service center in Marquette on the opening day of the firearm deer hunting season. In our small talk about the relatively long distance he dragged his deer out of the woods, and a fisher that he had seen early that morning, the ...
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters across the state that deer harvest reporting is once again required this hunting season. Now in its second year, mandatory harvest reporting of all deer is designed to provide the most efficient and effective data for deer ...
GRANT TOWNSHIP — After restricting vehicle usage of the Clark Mine road for several months due to heavy traffic, The Nature Conservancy on Nov. 1 opened the gates, which will remain open throughout the deer hunting and snowmobile seasons. Regular firearm deer hunting season annually begins runs from Nov. 15 to Nov. 30. According to uptravel.com, snowmobile season runs from December 1 through March 31. The Clark Mine trail, from near Estivant Pines to its eastern terminus at the Mandan Loop Road, had been closed to full-size vehicles, campers, and heavy trucks during peak visitor ...
