
Roughly 470-pound bear hit by vehicle in Alpena County, Mich.
A big male black bear with a dressed weight of 409 pounds was struck and killed by a car on M-32 in Alpena County, Mich., on June 10 about five miles east of Hillman.

A big male black bear with a dressed weight of 409 pounds was struck and killed by a car on M-32 in Alpena County, Mich., on June 10 about five miles east of Hillman.

Efforts to rehabilitate cisco populations in Michigan’s Saginaw Bay are beginning to show positive signs, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is leading the mission.
Ciscos, members of the whitefish family,

Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation to provide exemptions to the state’s hunter safety requirements, and to designate the wood duck as Michigan’s official duck, though prospects for passage are unclear.
Both bills were introduced

Hunters used to take mallards for granted as their numbers were high and populations stable. Their status, however, has changed in recent years.
The percent change in mallard harvest between the 2020-2022 mean versus
A man convicted of diverting a national park river to ease boat access to Lake Michigan was sentenced Tuesday to probation.
Andrew Howard was also banned from National Park Service property during the five-year

The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR) recently released a pivotal report, “Recreation Funding in America: Current Results and Future Insights.”
The comprehensive study conducted by Southwick Associates, Inc. on behalf of ORR aggregates and analyzes

The clock has been running for 18 months, but groups partnered with Illinois on a project to keep invasive carp out of Lake Michigan say Gov. JB Pritzker isn’t hearing the tick, tick, tick toward

J.B. Martin from Kimball, in St. Clair County, Mich., shot the highest-scoring black bear from 2023 that was entered in state records maintained by Commemorative Bucks of Michigan.
He killed the trophy bruin on Sept.

If all goes well, the Michigan DNR could begin stocking some state streams with Arctic grayling next spring. That’s the word from Ed Eisch, assistant chief of Fisheries Division, who has been involved with grayling
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