IRON MOUNTAIN — More than 9.1 million fish that weighed nearly 321 tons and consisted of 10 different species and one hybrid were stocked this spring and summer by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. To complete the task, 17 specialized trucks started in early spring and took 451 ...

MADISON, Wis. — Bonus antlerless harvest authorizations for Wisconsin’s 2024 gun deer season will be available for purchase online through the Go Wild license portal and at license sales locations starting at 10 a.m. Monday. Bonus authorizations, formerly known as tags, are sold at a ...

LANSING — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will hold a surplus land auction for Dickinson, Houghton, Marquette, Menominee and Ontonagon counties on Wednesday. Surplus land sales, a regular part of the DNR’s public land strategy, are key to how the agency manages the land it ...

This photo was supposed to celebrate a second successful nesting this year by our resident eastern phoebes at Six Mile Lake. I’d watched over the past weeks as beaks began to poke out the sides of the nest their parents have had for years above the light on my mom’s quilting shop. Each ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources provided an update this week on deer hunting regulations that take effect this fall in the Upper Peninsula, after actions taken July 11 by the Natural Resources Commission. The full package includes changes that won’t begin ...

Is this the next squirrel species to establish itself in the northwoods? This is a young 13-lined ground squirrel. It wasn’t willing to show its back, which is streaked with stripes and lines of spots, hence the name. It hung around the front door for awhile Saturday, then moved on and ...