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DNR checks on young walleye with upcoming fall electrofishing surveys

Any night fishing plans in your future this fall? Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel will be conducting nighttime walleye recruitment surveys from late September to mid-October, so be on the lookout for survey crews when you’re on the water. These surveys are an important ...

Call for more air quality monitors in the UP

LANSING – There are more than 40 air quality monitors across Michigan operated by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, but only two in the Upper Peninsula. And that raises serious public health concerns due to an increasing number of wildfires and the smoke that follows, environmental experts say. “Particulate matter can penetrate deep into lungs, and wildfire smoke exposure is an immediate acute event,” said Samantha Pickering, the public and environmental health policy manager at the Michigan Environmental Council. One is at the Seney National Wildlife ...

The leaves are changing

“Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons on our coats, blowing through the letters that we wrote, blowing through the books upon our shelves, it’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves," – Bob Dylan Walking along an old dirt road, I feel the winds of autumn swirling around the tree ...

Young hunter finds success at Liberty Hunt Weekend

11-year-old Blaine Evans sits with the seven point buck he shot in Cornell during the Michigan youth Liberty Hunt weekend. Submit hunting news by emailing news@dailypress.net or filling out the information on the “submit news” tab of the Daily Press website.

Community Fundraiser Launched for Proposed Gladstone Bike Park

GLADSTONE — Delta County Nonmotorized Trails (DCNT) has launched a community fundraising campaign to support the development of a new bike park at the John and Melissa Besse Sports Park in Gladstone. The proposed Gladstone Community Bike Park would create a safe, accessible outdoor ...