If you spent any time on the water last year, you may have seen Michigan Department of Natural Resources fisheries management units at work conducting fisheries surveys across the state. Crews completed 171 surveys of Michigan’s inland lakes and 110 surveys of Michigan’s streams in ...
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 ...
“Walking in the sunshine, sing a little sunshine song.” – Roger Miller I found myself awake and unable to go back to sleep this morning at about 4 a.m. My brain was trying to work out problems with some writing I’ve been working on. Having experienced similar situations in the past over my writing career, I knew the best answer was to just get up and start working on the writing – changing words and phrases around, trying to make them fit like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. I pushed open the window in my study and was greeted with silence seeping in rather quickly from ...
Michigan DNR Press release New and upgraded electrical systems, paved roads and parking lots, accessible sites and water jug fillers – these are just some of the amenities and conveniences visitors can enjoy now that planned improvement projects – made possible thanks to $250 million in federal relief funding – have been completed at several Michigan state parks. The funding is part of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Building Michigan Together Plan (signed into law in March 2022), a bipartisan plan to invest nearly $5 billion in Michigan’s infrastructure, grow the economy, create ...
“And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain.” – John Fogerty As I write this morning, I can hear the spattering sound of cars passing over wet blacktop. It rained hard an hour or so ago and I have the window pushed open a few inches in my study. When the soft breeze lifts intermittently, the branches of the birches, aspen and maples in the front yard rise and fall, sending collected rainwater tumbling down into the understory. The descent produces a gentle patting sound as the falling water droplets hit the upturned leaves of shrubs, younger trees and perennial ...
