MARQUETTE — March madness has taken on a different meaning in parts of northern Michigan and the U.P. over the past two years. Strong winter storms hit the landscape and communities in March 2025 and again this week, coating (or burying) trees and forests in heavy layers of ice and snow. Many ...

“Some quiet evening, I sit by your side and we’re lost in a world of our own,” – Ben Raleigh and Sherman Edwards It was that instant mashed potato flake kind of snow – soft and fluffy, and it was piling up high as the nighttime moved slowly past. I was looking out the upstairs window ...

LANSING — Michigan's cold winter temperatures have made for good ice fishing conditions, but anglers on the ice targeting walleye or other fish may unexpectedly find themselves with a lake sturgeon on the line. When that happens, releasing the sturgeon as quickly as possible is essential ...

MAQUETTE — Michigan wildlife researchers are preparing to conduct the second phase of a collaborative study that aims to figure out why the Upper Peninsula moose population remains stubbornly stagnant. This month, researchers from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Keweenaw Bay ...

LANSING — The Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Board has recommended the Michigan Legislature approve 60 recreation development projects and 15 land acquisitions totaling $45 million to be funded in 2026. According to a Michigan DNR press release, the board this year considered a total ...

The Michigan departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development encourage those who have eastern hemlock trees on their property to take time this winter to inspect the trees for signs of hemlock woolly adelgid – tiny, soft-bodied insects that consume the trees’ stored ...