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Outdoors

Stay away from flooded areas, rushing rivers and streams

As a record volume of water driven by snowmelt and spring rain runs through the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex, water is also high in many other areas of Michigan's northeastern Lower Peninsula, and that means putting safety first. Resist the urge to fish, explore or put a watercraft in ...

Signs of spring

“Come on Pearl, come on Kitty, if you feel inclined, down around the bend in the water, bring your fishin' line,” – Gordon Lightfoot In the evenings now, if I travel along the county road, the deer are gathering in any place where there’s bare ground. The surrounding landscape remains ...

Nature awaits

“When I looked outside my window before, it just looked lame,” said Leo, a fourth grader from Lake Orion. “I look closer now after this field trip. It was the coolest thing I have ever experienced in my nine years I’ve been alive.” Sometimes, as Leo found on his field trip to Bald ...

Protect and conserve your forest through Forest Legacy Program

How do you protect your forest for future generations? Michigan’s Forest Legacy Program offers some options. This program provides the state with funding to either purchase or secure working forest conservation easements on environmentally important forest lands to ensure that those lands ...

Wisconsin’s general fishing season opens May 2

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds anglers the 2026 – 2027 general inland fishing season will open statewide Saturday, May 2. Several new regulations and season structures are now in effect, and anglers are encouraged to review the regulations before ...