MONTMORENCY COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Outdoor enthusiasts will have more land to explore after a recent expansion to the Pigeon River Country State Forest. The Michigan Department of Natural ...

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

The Pigeon River Country State Forest consists of over 100,000 acres ... The forest and surrounding land is home to the largest free-roaming elk herd east of the Mississippi River.

Traverse City – Three elk have been shot in northern Michigan – the third case of elk poaching in the region within about a month, officials said Wednesday. Lt. Jim Gorno of the Department of ...

Next month you’ll have a better chance of seeing, and hearing, elk as they enter breeding season. Michigan’s Pigeon River Country State Forest in Otsego County is home to one of the largest ...

The rugged, 108,000-acre expanse of Michigan’s Pigeon River Country State Forest is already one ... was finalized in January and adds the Elk Forest at Black River, a stunning, 597-acre parcel ...

(WPBN/WGTU) — State officials are investigating an oil spill in the Pigeon River Country State Forest, where approximately 50 barrels of crude oil and brine were released from a compromised oil ...

LANSING (AP) - More than 500 acres of private land are being added to Michigan's 118,000-acre Pigeon River Country State Forest in the northern Lower Peninsula. The Michigan Department of Natural ...

It’s a state forest, and here’s what makes the Pigeon River Country unique as a state forest.” One of those things is the elk herd. Many people visit hoping to see elk and hear their bugle ...

more than a mile south of the Black River at Pigeon River Country State Forest in Cheboygan County. Josef Greenberg, the public information officer for the Michigan Department of Environment ...

Gorno says the three adult elk cows were found in the Pigeon River State Forest east of Vanderbilt. They apparently were shot last weekend while bedded down near each other. Officials are ...