The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conducted a prescribed burn in the Pigeon River Country State Forest area ...

CORWITH TOWNSHIP, MI – A prescribed burn scheduled for this afternoon is expected to benefit Lower Michigan’s elk herd, the ...

Reports show Michigan dramatically trails behind other Great Lakes states using prescribed fire to reduce wildfire risk and ...

The property was leased and managed by the DNR, said Eric Cowing, district supervisor for the DNR Parks and Recreation ...

Tree-killing pests such as native pine bark beetles thrive in areas with stressed, damaged pine trees and fresh pine debris — ...

Thousands of red pine trees had their branches and tops snapped off under the weight of ice from the late March storms.

State parks across Michigan are beginning to fill up for the summer. Here's a look at where to book as Memorial Day weekend ...

The state estimates 2,000 bears now call Lower Michigan home ... droppings help spread seeds across large areas, promoting plant growth and forest regeneration. As opportunistic omnivores ...

Although the spill occurred in a wetland area, it has not ... The Pigeon River Country State Forest, the largest block of contiguous public land in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, was dedicated ...

(WOOD) — Two weeks after an ice storm moved through northern Michigan ... River Country State Forest northeast of Gaylord were nearly stripped bare. “The landscape in some areas has been ...

northern Lower Michigan has wide-ranging areas with those conditions. It could lead to population explosions of the beetles and cause further losses to forests beyond the damage already done ...