Hunting

By Tracy Breen Correspondent Port Huron, Mich. – Michigan DNR enforcement officials say they’ve filed charges against a group of alleged poachers in St. Clair County that may have been responsible for the illegal killing

By Steve Griffin Field Editor Oscoda County, Mich. – Dan Moran was relieved. He’d found the Oscoda County den of the 3-year-old sow bear he’d radio-collared last summer, and heard at least one cub crying

By Bill Parker Editor Lansing – The financial hardships that have hit the DNR due to stagnant user fees and reductions in allocations from the state general fund have resulted in cuts in personnel and

By Bill Parker Editor Lansing – Sam Washington has resigned as executive director of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs, the state’s largest conservation organization, effective Feb. 16. ‘I just felt it was time to move

By Yvonne Swager Correspondent Frankfort, Mich. — New technology is speeding up the analysis of and promoting an increase in the lake trout status in Lake Michigan. The recent discovery of lake trout fry by

By Steve Griffin Field Editor Lansing — How often do new regulations make life simpler for those regulated? That’s the goal of new rules regarding fishing tournaments conducted on DNR-managed boating access sites. While the

By Joe Albert Staff Writer Washington — When U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy lost his bid to become one of Minnesota’s senators, the future of one of the bills he championed – the Wetlands Loan Act

By Kurt Krueger Correspondent Paulding, Mich. — Upper Peninsula Power Co. has delayed completion of its draft Shoreline Management Plan for six hydro-electric-based reservoirs, vowing not to convey any easement rights on project lands without