Ohio Mixed Bag: No big motors on Lake Hope
Staff and News Reports
November 2, 2026
After public feedback, the ODNR has decided not to allow larger boat motors at Lake Hope in southeast Ohio.
Nature Page & Night Sky
A Jack London classic: To Build a Fire… Part 1
Jack London
November 2, 2026
In “To Build A Fire,” set within the unforgiving cold of the Yukon wilderness, a lone traveler and a dog confront a landscape where a minor mistake means a fight for survival. Jack London’s tale
Michigan Mixed Bag: Release of nearly 7,300 pheasants underway
Staff and News Reports
November 2, 2026
Michigan hunters will have additional opportunities to pursue ring-necked pheasants this fall and winter as close to 7,300 birds were released at 13 state game areas across the southern Lower Peninsula.
First lake sturgeon feeding excavations documented by Michigan research team
John Hageman
November 1, 2026
Excavations in sediments have long been identified as being made by green sturgeon and white sturgeon in Washington state’s Pacific Ocean estuaries and Atlantic sturgeon in the intertidal mudflats of the Bay of Fundy, New
Steve McComas: Where do leaves go that fall in your favorite lake? Invisible forces are at play
Steve McComas
October 31, 2026
Lakes in central Minnesota have received an annual dose of falling autumn leaves for centuries without adversely impacting water quality. This small lake will get a load of leaves this autumn, but most of the
Michigan project tracks lake whitefish in Muskegon River
Anthony Candia
October 30, 2026
Lake whitefish facing steep population declines in lakes Michigan and Huron could find new spawning habitat in Michigan rivers, and a research project on the Muskegon River aims to determine whether the fish can return
Great Lakes whitefish fade as scientists seek solutions
Mike Gnatkowski
October 30, 2026
Lansing, Mich. — Two decades ago, when you went to a restaurant in northern Michigan or the Upper Peninsula, whitefish was a featured menu item. Walk into any fish market back then and you’d find
College student/hiker from New York among two who perish in Colorado snowstorm
Associated Press
October 30, 2026
Two Colorado college students, including one from New York, have been found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains when a heavy snowstorm hit, authorities said.
The bodies of
First case of screwworm in U.S. wildlife confirmed in Texas elk
Associated Press
October 30, 2026
The first case of new world screwworm in wildlife in the United States has been found in an elk in Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in late October.
The elk was discovered
