Saving Michigan’s Sharp-tailed Grouse

Saving Michigan’s Sharp-tailed Grouse

Government agencies, conservation groups, Sault Tribe teaming up to enhance bird habitats, lek sites in U.P. over next several years By Chris Lamphere Philosophical differences over the management of a natural resource can sometimes make it difficult for people to...

Musky: A Keystone Species

By Kory Boozer, avid angler and member of the Michigan Musky Alliance A musky is a keystone species that helps hold everything together in its environment. Oftentimes, this role is played out by apex predators such as wolves in Yellowstone National Park, sea otters in...
Hunting and Fishing Dollars at Work

Hunting and Fishing Dollars at Work

By the Michigan Wildlife Council If Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Biologist Joe Robison had a nickel for every time someone assumed he was a conservation officer when told he works for the DNR, well, he’d have a lot of full piggybanks. Robison, a...
Death by Thousand Cuts

Death by Thousand Cuts

Whether it is the DNR’s unwillingness to push back against anti-hunters and those spreading misinformation about wolves at meetings or the appropriation of Native American culture when convenient to try and circumvent biology — slowly, your rights as a trapper,...