IRON MOUNTAIN — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has named Anthony Erickson to serve as hunter education coordinator for Dickinson County. Erickson has been a hunters education instructor since 2005 and has worked with many organizations and groups. His training group currently ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The new fishing license and regulation season kicks off Tuesday in both Michigan and Wisconsin, so anglers need to be sure they have purchased a new license. All anglers 17 years of age and older are required to have a fishing license in Michigan. Wisconsin’s requirement ...

FLORENCE, Wis. — The Wisconsin Conservation Congress will hold the annual spring hearing Monday, April 14, in the lower level conference room at the Wild River/Natural Resource Center to go over citizen resolutions and elect WCC delegates. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the meeting starting at ...

With spring migration firmly in gear despite this week’s winter storm, the return of seasonal birds also could bring avian influenza back to the region. As most of the new arrivals in the Upper Peninsula travel through Wisconsin, I turned to that state’s Department of Natural Resources ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Upper Peninsula Trappers Association will have a reorganizational meeting Saturday, March 29, to help recruit, retain and reactivate trappers — or those interested in learning about trapping — in Gogebic, Ontonagon and Iron counties. The District 2 meeting will be at ...

The news Thursday that cougar cubs had turned up in the Upper Peninsula — Michigan’s first confirmed wild cubs in more than a century — sparked both elation and worry. The elation came that a female cougar may have actually made the 900-plus-miles journey from most likely the Black ...