Northern Michigan Conservation Network

Our thanks goes to the Traverse City Record Eagle for its recent Editorial on what amounts to the latest shot across our conservation bow again from Senator Casperson.  This time, and pardon the pun, he’s dredged up an old bill but this time has repackaged it as “an effort to combat invasive species.” Right, Tom. […]

With all of the debate taking place in Michigan relative to Senate Bill 248 and the question of “what constitutes too much public land?” it is refreshing to see that a study conducted in western states has confirmed that extensive areas of public land can stimulate economic activity and it is not a drain on […]

Detroit Free Press Editorial – May 19, 2012 Michiganders who love the Great Lakes shoreline will want to keep an especially close eye on their lawmakers as they debate a bill that would stop the Department of Environmental Quality from overseeing what happens on the beaches. This is the return of a battle that was […]

By Chris Engle, HT Outdoor Columnist   12:04 p.m. EDT, May 4, 2012 As much as I’m aching to share a happy outdoors memory this week, it’s impossible as long as my future outdoor experience is held at gunpoint in the Legislature. Specifically, there are three proposals in Lansing right now that I’ve got my […]

05/01/12 By Mark Spencley Cheboygan Daily News   INDIAN RIVER – The Inland Waterway, a famed walleye fishing destination, will enter the second year of a three-year study looking into all of the factors that affect the fishery’s walleye population. To track the movement of walleye within the waterway, DNR, Tribal and Michigan State University […]