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Michigan DNR

UP timber project awarded $50K

BRIMLEY — A long-term care facility planned by the Bay Mills Indian Community in the Upper Peninsula community of Brimley is the latest mass timber project in Michigan to receive funding and technical expertise provided by the Michigan Mass Timber Catalyst Program. The project will receive ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

"But my words like silent raindrops fell, within the wells of silence,” – Paul Simon As the shadows fell and the world turned, I watched the stars – in their intriguing constellations – move across the cold skies of a late winter’s March night. I made my observations over a period of ...

Help your trees recover from another March storm

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 ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

“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 ...

Hook a sturgeon, let it go.

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 ...

Seeking answers

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 ...