If you grow houseplants, you probably know that sinking feeling you get when you notice the almost imperceivable movement of a dot, fine webbing between a leaf and its stem, or a leaf that just looks off. You thought (hoped!) the moment would never come, but the pests have moved in, and here ...

“Shut the door not that it lets the cold in but that it lets out the coziness.” – Mark Twain Coziness has become something truly special with this current stretch of icy cold weather. It is a particularly moving experience now to peer outside, over the snowdrifts and snow piles and ...

Little Bay de Noc: Walleye anglers reported slow fishing. While some anglers were able to catch a few, most reported little to no success. Some anglers did however report catching trophy-sized walleye. Anglers were jigging snap-style jigs baited with a portion of minnow on a treble hook. ...

“The wind it was howlin' and the snow was outrageous; we chopped through the night, and we chopped through the dawn,” – Bob Dylan The persistent and deepening snow and cold of late has signaled primal feelings of survival within me. Just walking to the mailbox and back is an adventure ...

By JOHN PEPIN Michigan Department of Natural Resources “And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles; they can always fly away from this rain and this cold; you can hear them singing out their telegraph code; all the way down the Telegraph Road.” — Mark Knopfler The wind ...

By Michigan State Forestry Innovation Center ESCANABA — A forester, psychologist and microbiologist meet with each other in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. No, this isn’t the start of a sappy joke. However, the story about to be told is sappy. Jesse Randall, director of the ...