MARQUETTE — If you find the place in Marquette County on a topographic map, you’ll see an old, dirt roadway doglegging off a county road for a short distance. You can then follow the forest route to where the Black River rolls slowly through the swamps and tag alders, as dark as ...

MARQUETTE — A recent study found a dramatic difference between the microbial diversity in guts of female and male American minks, suggesting an unexpected sexual distinction in the gut microbiomes of carnivores. Diana Lafferty, assistant professor of wildlife ecology at NMU, was first author ...

“Where I come from, lotta front porch sittin’,” —Alan Jackson There’s a small, gray planter box in my windowsill at my office that contains thick and lush, bright-green grass about 4 inches tall – made of plastic. It was a gift from a coworker that is intended to always remind ...

MARQUETTE — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is continuing a pilot program begun last winter to keep boating access sites plowed at more than two dozen popular Upper Peninsula ice fishing locations. Various local partners have agreed to assist the DNR with the program to ensure ...

“Who was that man, nobody knows all across this land,” – Nick Lowe At the end of a crippling-cold and dark winter’s night, the weak rays of the morning sun would greet me with a curious bit of intrigue I was determined to unravel. The mystery I detail now surrounds certain incidents ...

Les Cheneaux/Munuscong Bay: Anglers were catching perch in Hessel Bay and Musky Bay. At Dans Resort, anglers were catching perch and recently started picking up walleye. Anglers were also accessing the bay using the Conley Point DNR boat ramp in Barbeau and were picking up a few perch there as ...