By Journal Staff

ONTONAGON — The Michigan State Police announced that a boy from Hurley, Wisconsin who was reported missing in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park since Saturday has been found safe.

Earlier today, 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.

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.

The Hurley School District posted on Facebook today about the boy being found.

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