DNR

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said on Wednesday that a gray wolf was killed in January in Calhoun County by a hunter who thought it was a coyote.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is considering allowing e-bikes on more state park trails.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently released 1,800 Arctic grayling in three lakes. The fish are surplus fish from a broodstock at the Marquette State Fish Hatchery, which is raising grayling that they hope will reproduce.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has been working to secure a conservation easement in the western Upper Peninsula. Recently awarded grants worth one million dollars will help with the project.

The DNR plans to reintroduce Arctic grayling to Michigan waterways. The fish were wiped out in the state in the 1930s, and attempts to reintroduce them in the 1980s failed.

There are at least 631 gray wolves in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, according to the state’s latest survey. Experts with Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources say the wolf population there has remained basically stable for more than a decade.