The ice is finally completely gone on Six Mile Lake — I suspect the rains early Friday took away the last remnants that had been hanging on in the center of the lake. This past week seemed to bring a host of waterfowl: more common and hooded mergansers, even one male red-breasted merganser, ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — As of Friday afternoon, Menominee County was showing the highest turkey harvest in the Upper Peninsula’s spring season with a total of 99 birds. Dickinson County ranked second, with 41, while Iron County was third at 39. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources' online ...

As predicted, the birds expected to re-appear in mid-April have made it back. Our regular eastern phoebes not only showed up last Saturday, they seem to have decided the nest needs renovation and have pulled down the grass and lichen portions to get it down to the mud foundation. We’ll have ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — As the spring turkey season opens today in the Upper Peninsula, hunters are reminded there's a new mandatory harvest reporting requirement. Starting this year, all successful turkey hunters must report their harvest within 72 hours of harvest or before transferring ...

After seemingly being halted by two rounds of icy rain late last week, the spring migration through Wisconsin appears to have gone into high gear this past week, with almost 4.6 million birds crossing the state overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning, according to the Cornell Lab of ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — More than 5,752 miles of state forest roads in the Upper Peninsula are open to ORVs this year, representing about 98% of the total mileage, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said. Each year on April 1, following the annual road inventory and review, the DNR ...