LANSING — In his nearly 40 years as a professional fisheries biologist — 35 of those with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources — Gary Whelan has touched and influenced fisheries management in many and long-lasting ways. Because of that body of work, the Association of Fish & ...

Out in the wind today, I heard November knocking on the door with a tap of her fingernails at first and then with a louder bang that pounding of a little, clenched fist. Impetuous, wild and unpredictable as she is, I told her she would have to wait until her time had come. This was still the ...

MARQUETTE — The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at Northern Michigan University is featuring an exhibition titled “Above/Under the Surface: The Fisheries of the Upper Great Lakes” through December in its Gries Hall gallery. The exhibition looks at the changes that have taken place in the ...

“And then right on time you came and changed the game,” — Marshall Crenshaw Waking up, having once again fallen asleep on the couch watching television into the early morning hours, I sat pulling my mind together hoping to wrap it around some thoughts or at least something I could ...

“There was a cold wind blowing on the night we met, the leaves fell from the trees, you made a lot of promises I ain’t seen yet, I ain’t gonna ask you please,” – Dave Alvin The afternoon was the blustery sort, with the wind whipping the tree limbs on the maple trees around in ...

By CASEY WARNER Michigan Department of Natural Resources MARQUETTE — For those looking to experience nature’s grandeur, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in the western Upper Peninsula — fondly known as “the Porkies” — is the place to go. Featuring 60,000 acres of ...