Cormorants

Their increasing population is a big problem   Outdoors enthusiasts and anglers in Michigan started seeing cormorants in increasing numbers in the last few decades. Cormorants are fish-eating birds most associated with near-shore areas of the ocean. A research...

Michigan’s inland cisco fisheries

Michigan is blessed with at least 153 lakes around the state where native cisco can be found. Cisco, a member of the whitefish subfamily of trout/salmon, are often called lake herring in the Great Lakes, according to a research summary by Carl Latta, MDNR Research...

The Pine Marten

History in Michigan American or pine marten (more commonly called pine marten) are native to Michigan but essentially disappeared during the extensive original logging period in the state in the late 1800s and early 1900s. By the 1930s, martens were thought to have...

Seeing moose in the U.P. is not easy!

As a DNR fisheries biologist in the U.P., I had to answer public wildlife questions at the DNR office when wildlife biologists were not available. One time the secretaries summoned me to the front public contact counter. There, a man and woman wanted me to direct them...