State crews are lowering a popular northern Michigan fishing lake named Tomahawk Creek Flooding in Allis Township after suspected seepage was found below its aging dam. Read the full story […]
Lake Michigan has been named the best fishing lake in the United States for 2026 by FishingBooker, a website that helps people book fishing trips. Read the full story by Milwaukee […]
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking for tips to find the person who they say left a dead lake sturgeon on a road in Whitehall, Michigan. Damage to […]
By Anna Barnes
Officials from Michigan's Fisheries division say further cutbacks on staffing and fish stocking are likely as the costs of operations rise.
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
Downriver Detroit developed during the 20th century as an industrial region, but it was never just an industrial space. Alongside factories and working-class neighborhoods, there were wetlands, waterfront areas, nature preserves, farms and residential communities with different types of environments that shaped the region. This relationship lies at
Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials say the Fisheries Division faces ongoing financial challenges despite receiving one-time funding in the new state budget, because most of its budget comes from […]
Eighty years ago, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources created the Northern Highland Fishery Research Area. For decades, anglers on the five lakes in the research area have reported catch […]
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
While urbanization continues to displace natural ecosystems across the Great Lakes region, one declining wetland bird has managed to adapt to city life -- the black-crowned night heron.
By Elizabeth McGowan
Researchers are exploring a new approach to controlling invasive sea lamprey populations: Chemicals that disrupt pheromones rather than lampricide.
By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira
The number of bald eagles in Michigan is declining. Workers are finding empty and damaged nests, malnourished eaglets and adult bald eagles attempting to nest a second time after failed attempts. Funding delays aren't helping.
In 1976, one man triggered a legal fight that changed commercial fishing in the Great Lakes. Decades later, another legal battle is taking shape over the Great Lakes tribes indigenous […]