DNR

First, the funding future for the Department of Natural Resources. Next, a look at snowmobiling in Michigan. Then, a conversation with Michigan’s newest Poet Laureate: Melba Boyd. Plus, a glimpse of an incredibly rare bird.

It’s National Invasive Species Awareness week, and Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources is urging Michiganders to learn more about invasive species prevention.

Today, the spat over solar development on state lands. Also, a blast from the past: the celebrated 70s Ann Arbor art collective, La Raza. And, what an AI future may mean for demand on Michigan’s water supply.

We check in on how the 2024 deer hunting season is going, and what it means to those who still find time in the woods to do it. Also, carving out a place for Detroit as design students to launch into fashion.We’ll remember Michigan’s first Native American state legislator. And sorting through the avalanche of unknown heritage apple varieties in Northwest Michigan.

There have been 70 wildfires in Michigan in September and October. That's seven times the normal number.

A two-decade trend of a declining number of hunters has resulted in rising deer populations in the Lower Peninsula.

What the Project 2025 playbook might look like for Michigan during a second Trump term. Then, a beautifully illustrated 60-year-old children’s book written by a nonagenarian Beaver Island resident publishes for the first time. And, things to keep in mind for yourself and children while summertime doom scrolling on your phone.

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.