ESCANABA- The snow moon is about to rise in the eastern sky! The full snow-moon will light the frigid nights with a white glow. It may bring dancing flakes of new snow. It may bring coyote love songs and owl serenades. Indigenous people often referred to the month of February as the snow ...

“The wind it was howlin' and the snow was outrageous; we chopped through the night, and we chopped through the dawn,” – Bob Dylan The persistent and deepening snow and cold of late has signaled primal feelings of survival within me. Just walking to the mailbox and back is an adventure ...

Jutting out into Lake Superior is the Keweenaw Peninsula, home to Michigan’s Copper Country. This is where the earliest known metalworking in North America originated, with objects crafted by Indigenous peoples from Keweenaw copper becoming so prized that they have been discovered in ...

ESCANABA - The following reports detail daily activity of Michigan conservation officers from Nov. 9, 2025, to Nov. 22, 2025, throughout the following District 2 counties of service: Alger, Chippewa, Delta, Mackinac, Luce and Schoolcraft. CO Steve Butzin received a complaint in Nahma Township ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) and U.S. Senator Jon Husted (R-OH) to enhance Great Lakes fishery research and management efforts has been signed into law. The Great Lakes Fisheries Research Reauthorization Act reauthorizes funding for ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior has revoked grazing permits in Phillips County, Mont. that American Prairie -- a conservation nonprofit working to restore the prairie ecosystem of north-central Montana -- used for its bison herd. The decision follows a lengthy battle with the Montana ...