SPARTA, Wis. (AP) — The popular Elroy-Sparta State Trail in western Wisconsin officially reopened over the weekend following several years of flood-related repairs. Summer flood damage in 2018 closed the 32-mile-long trail which had about 60,000 visitors a year. The state Department of ...

MARQUETTE — Anglers can help the Michigan Department of Natural Resources evaluate the Lake Superior splake fishery by reporting marked splake. Splake, which are a hybrid cross between lake trout and brook trout, have been stocked in Lake Superior most years since 1971, with annual stocking ...

MARQUETTE — Michigan Department of Natural Resources fish-stocking trucks are releasing their prized recreational cargo at hundreds of lakes and streams throughout the state. The DNR does not stock on top of wild populations when it can be avoided. However, there are instances where the ...

Registration open for DNR’s Becoming an Outdoors Woman ... IRON MOUNTAIN — Northern pike and walleye season opens Sunday on Upper Peninsula Great Lakes and inland waters as Mother Nature dials back on a May heat wave. A high near 70 is predicted for Sunday and even cooler weather is ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Despite a slower spring thaw, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources predicts a successful start to the 2022 fishing season today. “With the late ice thaw on northern lakes, the fish will be hungry and eager to bite,” said Justine Hasz, DNR bureau director of ...

Winter’s stubborn refusal to give way to spring this season has made for a similar delayed advance of the usual bird species that return to the Upper Peninsula. Yet these migrants cannot be denied for long, spurred by the growing daylight, even if the local conditions don’t reward ...