Earlier on Monday, the Michigan State Police announced that troopers from the MSP Wakefield Post led an investigation and search efforts surrounding Nante Niemi, 8, who was last seen at 1 p.m. Saturday while camping with his family in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park near Wakefield.

“Nante has been located safe and has been reunited with his family,” the MSP Eighth District announced in a Twitter post.

It said a volunteer searching for him found him under or near a log about two miles from the campsite where he had been the entire time he was missing. The boy appeared to be in good health.

The Michigan State Police thanked all the volunteers and support services that assisted in locating the child.

Eli Talsma, a student at Hurley High School in Wisconsin, helps Nante Niemi after the boy was found on Monday in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Nante, 8, of Hurley, had been missing for about two days. Many volunteers and support services helped in the search. (Photo courtesy of the Hurley School District)

Preliminary reports indicated that Nante was walking and gathering firewood for the family’s campsite when he went missing. More than 150 search-and-rescue personnel from MSP and local police partners, including nine K-9s, were in the roughly 40-square-mile area to look for the boy. The terrain is remote and hilly with a lot of standing water due to the time of the year, the MSP said.

On Monday, the Hurley School District made several posts on Facebook regarding the second-grader being found.

“Words cannot describe the emotions and joy the students and staff are experiencing at this moment,” one post reads.

Another reads in part, “May all those who took part in the search-and-rescue efforts know that your work will have a positive impact on many lives forever.”