“Sixteen miles to seven lakes way up among the pines, in some hidden valley where the twirlin’ river twines,” – Gordon Lightfoot On another winter morning, overcast with skies the color of dirty mop water, the sunshine is on vacation somewhere down south. The maples, birches and their ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Michigan researchers have gone back in time to get a picture of ice cover on the Great Lakes since the late 19th century. Using historical temperature records from weather ...

Michigan wildlife researchers are preparing to conduct the second phase of a collaborative study that aims to figure out why the Upper Peninsula moose population remains stubbornly stagnant. This month, researchers from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Keweenaw Bay Indian ...

All forestry schools teach tree classification as a basic course. Lots of Latin names. Groups of similar trees, in at least some ways. It’s kinda fun but not for everybody. When Carolus Linnaeus (nee Carl von Linné) began naming living things with Latin terms, there needed to be a method ...

Michigan elk hunters faced challenging weather and storm-ravaged terrain to harvest 153 elk in 2025. A record number of applicants – 47,493 – applied for one of just 260 elk licenses that were issued through the state’s annual drawing. The elk hunt took place in the northern Lower ...

ESCANABA – The following reports detail daily activity of Michigan conservation officers from Nov. 23, 2025, to Dec. 6, 2025, throughout the following District 1 and District 2 counties of service: Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinac, ...