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DNR's Eastern UP Citizens' Advisory Council to meet June 16 in Chippewa County

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ Eastern Upper Peninsula Citizens’ Advisory Council is scheduled to hear an outlook on state parks, boating access sites and trails in the eastern Upper Peninsula, updates on the DNR's wolf abundance trail camera survey and the U.P. deer camp survey when the council meets Monday, June 16. The meeting will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. EDT at Lake Superior State University’s Walker Cisler Student and Conference Center, located at 650 W. Easterday Avenue in Sault Ste. Marie. Additional business includes reports from various DNR ...

Weekly fishing report

Upper Peninsula • St. Ignace: At the Carp River, walleye anglers floated night crawlers/leeches or jigged soft plastics. At the Pine River, boat anglers trolled night crawler harnesses with combinations of reds and oranges for walleye. • Grand Marais: Boat anglers reported good success targeting lake trout when trolling and jigging at deeper depths. Anglers targeting coho salmon found success trolling east of the break wall. Anglers fishing the break wall reported whitefish and Menominee along with coho salmon. The preferred bait for whitefish anglers was spawn and worms for ...

Oil and gas have boomed in New Mexico; its schools are contending with pollution's effects

COUNSELOR, N.M. — On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, driving past natural gas pipelines, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should have been in school, but a bout of nausea and a dull headache kept him from class. "It happens a lot," Amari explained from the backseat. The symptoms usually show up when the sixth grader smells an odor of "rotten egg with propane" that rises from nearby gas wells and wafts over Lybrook Elementary School, where he and some 70 other Navajo students attend class. His little brother often ...