Special to the Journal LANSING – Check your car, kayak or a nearby rail car – it might be providing free transportation for an invasive pest or plant. And you can be part of a renewed effort to stop the invaders. The Midwest Invasive Species Information Network needs help finding and ...

“But right now, I’ll just sit here so contentedly and watch the river flow,” – Bob Dylan There is a place I remember visiting at this time of year, on a cold November day when the skies above looked as tumultuous as the crashing and dark grayish-blue-purple rolling waves on the big ...

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” – Paul Coelho November is a great month to get out and look for the unexpected. This past week several days dipped between sunshine, wind, rain, and snow. It became a ...

GEORGETOWN (AP) — Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada. “There is power in a name, and some English bird names ...

“I’m beginning on my journey now, but I’ve only gotten halfway down,” – Jim Lauderdale I stood in the woods at night at the edge of a northern hardwood forest, listening to the stunning silence. As is often the case, no matter how many times I get outside, the specific conditions ...

MARQUETTE—A group of Northern Michigan University biology students joined members of state and federal wildlife agencies recently to learn how to safely tranquilize wild animals during a three-day professional development course. “We have a fisheries and wildlife major in biology, so ...