MARQUETTE — A collaborative wildlife research project in the Upper Peninsula has documented an exceptionally strong first-year survival rate among regional moose calves, significantly outpacing studied populations in neighboring states and Canadian provinces. Recent reports from the ongoing ...
When I turned into the parking lot, it was a couple of hours before sunset, which meant it would be great timing for hitting the water for some salmon or brown trout fishing before darkness would be dropping fast. Over the past three evenings, I have been down here to this big lake tributary ...
SKANDIA -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service applied lampricide to the Chocolay River this week, as part of a larger, decades-long effort to control the population of invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. Sea lamprey are native to the Atlantic Ocean, but spread to the Great Lakes in the late 19th and early 20th century thanks to the development of the Great Lakes shipping industry and the bypassing of Niagara Falls. According to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, sea lampreys were first spotted in Lake Erie in 1921 and had arrived in Lake Superior by 1938. Sea lamprey have a ...
Think bats are spooky? Let’s dispel some myths right off the, ah, bat. Bats do not want to touch human hair. They are not blind. Less than 1% of bats carry rabies. And, no, bats do not suck blood (at least the bats living in Michigan). Here’s the real scary part about bats: Their numbers were decimated by a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome more than a decade ago and, despite researchers’ ongoing efforts, have not yet recovered. That’s frightening because bats play an important role in our world. An average bat eats more than 3,000 bugs a night – from mosquitoes to ...
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – A decade-long review led by Lake Superior State University researchers has documented 6,453 reported oil spill incidents across the Great Lakes between 2015 and 2024, highlighting the frequency of smaller releases and gaps in the data needed to understand their ...
MARINETTE COUNTY, WISCONSIN — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) has confirmed the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Marinette County near Peshtigo. On Thursday, the WDNR reported the disease was detected in a three-year-old ...
