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 ...

It's that time of year again, when the fuzzy socks are working overtime, the heat is cranking and somehow lots of homes are still freezing. That's because a lot of that heat leaks out of the house — and the colder it is outside, the faster the warm, inside air leaks out. There are ways to ...

“There’s a pale moon waning as the blackbirds dot the sky, but the crows are my friends and I wave to them a-passing by,” – Otis Gibbs A crow floats down into the wintry scene. His presence cracks the moment like a light bulb dropped on the kitchen floor. He looks lost or out of place ...

“No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.” — Kenneth Grahame There are actually a few requirements of all animals during the stresses of winter — to find ...