MARQUETTE — Jeff Stratton’s beloved Larks Lake left his feet and legs covered in hundreds of itchy red welts. “It was horrible,” said Stratton, 68, “Crazy itchy. Crazy painful.” The itching was caused by austrobilharzia variglandis, a tiny parasite that ran wild in the lake’s ...

I walk in newly greening grasses, looking into a warm, early-morning sky, where the spread of a budding maple tree casts a grand image against the blue background. But it will still be a couple of weeks, at least in these woods, before the greening of springtime will truly be revealed. In ...

“I grew up wild and free, walking these fields in my bare feet. There wasn’t no place I couldn’t go with a .22-rifle and a fishing pole,” Bob McDill I stood alongside the banks of a small creek, soaking the sunshine in as far as I could, simultaneously drinking up and holding big gulps ...

According to new data from Expedia, 42% of Americans choose Canada, Finland, and Norway as their most favored destinations among those seeking to catch the Aurora Borealis. Experts predict the borealis, or northern lights, will be exceptionally visible this year. That spurs travelers to ditch ...

LANSING — Every fish studied recently in two Southeast Michigan watersheds contained at least one of a family of toxic and persistent health-threatening chemicals. The chemicals – collectively known as per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS – are found in some rivers, lakes, ...

There’s a field I know that I often drive past on my way to quiet and contemplative places in the surrounding woodlands. I always look, but there’s rarely anything to see here but what was once a hopeful landscape, from a time that has long since passed away. There’s no fence around ...