Cuffs & Collars: Field reports from Michigan DNR Conservation Officers (Jan. 5, 2023)
Conservation officer reports from around the state of Michigan.
January 5, 2023
Calendar of events in Michigan (Jan. 5, 2023)
A look at upcoming outdoor-related events around Michigan.
Michigan letters to the editor: Add road kills to the mandatory harvest reporting system data
Reader-submitted letters to the editor from Jan. 5, 2023.
Great Lakes wind turbines: Green energy answer? Not so fast
If you’ve ever seen the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Panama Canal and considered the cost, engineering, and skills it took to build them and other man-made marvels, it’s easy to believe that constructing a wind energy turbine offshore in the Great Lakes – or a fleet of them – would be
Mixed Bag: Outdoor news items from around Michigan (Jan. 5, 2023)
A mixed bag of outdoor news items from around Michigan.
Outdoor observations: Send your nominations for Michigan’s Person of the Year in conservation
We’re very fortunate as a conservation community to have thousands of volunteers across the state who work tirelessly to ensure that Michigan sportsmen and sportswomen have the best possible opportunities to hunt, fish, trap, hike, camp, and otherwise recreate in the outdoors.
DNR secures $5 million grant via America the Beautiful Challenge
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation recently announced the recipients of the inaugural America the Beautiful Challenge, a $1 billion grant program launched in May to fund diverse, landscape-level conservation projects. Michigan has been awarded $5 million, to be administered by the state’s Department of Natural Resources.
Two men arrested in 2018 slaying of deer hunter near Lansing
Two men have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a hunter in a Michigan state park during the 2018 deer season.
How wildlife experts eradicated the nutria from Chesapeake Bay
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service teamed up with several agencies – including the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services and the Maryland DNR – along with 700 landowners and enlisted trained trappers and wildlife experts to catch and kill about 14,000 invasive nutria that had proliferated in the Delmarva area, a 170-mile stretch that crosses the three states.
