Sleeping Bear Dunes

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.

An unexpected hot streak stokes Tiger baseball playoff dreams, indigenous opposition to a Sleeping Bear Dunes trail extension, the Michigander editing Wordle for the New York Times, and a graphic artists explores the aging process.

A $250,000 grant will provide a 45-day pilot program for automated electric bus rides at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Northern Michigan.

Sleeping Bear Dunes, Pictured Rocks, the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, and the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge are expected to be hit by budget cuts.

The Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail stretches about 20 miles through Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A new segment of the trail would add about five miles, but require the removal of over 7,200 trees, according to one independent analysis.

Michigan has lots of beautiful nature to offer—but sometimes humans desire to experience that nature butts up against conservation goals. We heard about two places in the state trying to balance recreation and ecology.

The National Park Service is investigating a sudden change in the flow of the Platte River at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Piping plovers are nesting in more places, and in slightly greater numbers.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore officials want guests to stop building structures on the beach.

Walk into the children’s section of pretty much any bookstore or library in Michigan and you’re likely to find Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen’s work staring…