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

GAYLORD — The Gaylord Area Convention and Tourism Bureau has announced that its 2025 Trailblazer Award is going to the Pigeon River Discovery Center, located within the Pigeon River Country ...

Cheboygan County — Clean-up continues this week after oil was released into a Northern Michigan wetland, as state officials continue to investigate what caused it. Contractors have placed ...

CHEBOYGAN — State officials are investigating an oil spill in a wetlands area in the Pigeon River Country State Forest in Cheboygan County. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes ...

The Pigeon River Country State Forest, the largest block of contiguous public land in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, was dedicated by the Natural Resources Commission in December 1973. Oil ...

Drone footage taken by Michigan Department of Natural Resources staff at the Pigeon River Country State Forest east of Vanderbilt in northern lower Michigan shows the widespread devastation to a ...

gives a glimpse into the damage left behind by ice storms that slammed northern Michigan on March 30-31. The video of the red pine plantation in Pigeon River Country shows how ice-laden trees ...

the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has an updated map showing work that has been done. See video of a damaged red pine plantation in the Pigeon River Country below DNR video shows ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pigeon River in Hartford, Tennessee, is officially open for the 2025 whitewater season after completing extensive repairs to its rafting ...