LANSING — A deer with chronic wasting disease has been found in Ogemaw County — a county that had never seen the disease before. And that worries the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Showing zombielike symptoms, the deer was in its final stages of the sickness: drooling, skinny ...

With the spirit of thanksgiving blowing across the landscape this week, pushed by a cold Canadian wind, I was reminded recently of something I have been truly thankful for over many years, though it’s not something I think about in detail too often. My recollections began when talking with ...

MARQUETTE — New research from the Voyageurs Wolf Project in northern Minnesota — a collaborative team that includes a Northern Michigan University professor and two alumni — sheds light on how humans are having a profound impact on wolf-deer relationships by altering forest ...

The early morning sky was painted across the horizon line with a soft shade of orange I’d seen in push-up sherbet confections or the bands along the lower sides of autumn brook trout. Above the band of orange was a layer of almost white, trending to light blue and then darkening ...

“But right now, I’ll just sit here so contentedly and watch the river flow,” – Bob Dylan There is a place I remember visiting at this time of year, on a cold November day when the skies above looked as tumultuous as the crashing and dark grayish-blue-purple rolling waves on the big ...

Special to the Journal LANSING – Check your car, kayak or a nearby rail car – it might be providing free transportation for an invasive pest or plant. And you can be part of a renewed effort to stop the invaders. The Midwest Invasive Species Information Network needs help finding and ...