Deer hunting preview: Robust 2024 harvest could extend into 2025
Deer hunters taking part in Michigan’s Oct. 1-Nov. 14 archery season could see a strong statewide harvest, even as they encounter varying conditions – from the results of heavy snowfall in parts of the Upper Peninsula to an outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in the southern Lower Peninsula. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ newly […]
MI DNR | Prescribed Burn Notice, Oakland County
Prescribed burn scheduled today in Oakland County Encouraging the growth of native prairie plants is the object of a prescribed burn scheduled today in Oakland County’s Highland Township. The 69-acre burn also will reduce shrubs and trees in the area. Start time is around 1 p.m. Prescribed burns are one way the Michigan Department of […]
DNR PSA: As swim buoys at state parks are removed, swim area designation expires
As the weather cools and the days shorten, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources continues the process of removing swim buoys and the Great Lakes flag system from many state park beaches. Once buoys are removed – a process that always starts after Labor Day – the area is no longer considered a designated swim […]
Public invited to review Michigan’s plan for rare wildlife conservation
Feedback on draft State Wildlife Action Plan is due Sept. 12 Michigan is one of the only strongholds for some of North America’s most unique and vulnerable wildlife. Whether it’s the Kirtland’s warbler nesting in young jack pine forests, piping plovers scurrying across sandy Great Lakes beaches or the Karner blue butterfly flitting among wild […]