Rivers and streams around the state are reporting low water levels. Boat anglers traveling on these waterways will want to take it slow and use extreme caution. Water temperatures are warm so anglers will want to fish the deeper holes...

Michigan Department of Natural Resources' park and recreation officials announced today that the Torch River Bridge and the Torch River Boating Access Sites (BAS) located in Antrim and Kalkaska counties have become user fee sites to better manage their use. A BAS permit will now be required to enter these sites...

Department of Natural Resources wildlife officials announced today that due to low water levels in the Great Lakes, two reserved hunts at Fish Point State Wildlife Area and Nayanquing Point State Wildlife Area will not take place this fall...

Department of Natural Resources' state park and recreation officials announced today that Burt Lake State Park is hosting a free GPS (Global Positioning Systems) event on Tuesday, Aug. 14...

Department of Natural Resources officials today announced that the north loop of the Pickerel Lake State Forest Campground will be closed until further notice due to an inoperable well. The campground is located in Otsego County, via the Sturgeon River Road northeast of Vanderbilt in the Pigeon River Country State Forest...

The Department of Natural Resources is offering a free basic archery instructor (BAI) course, Wednesday, Aug. 29, at the Owosso High School in Owosso, located in Shiawassee County...

Fishing slowed somewhat last week due to rain and thunderstorms. It should pick up this week if the weather stabilizes...

The Department of Natural Resources Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) program is offering an advanced level Beyond BOW salmon fishing workshop, Aug. 17-19, out of the Fairport Marina at the tip of the Garden Peninsula in Delta County. Fishing will take place in northern Lake Michigan...

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC) recently approved three deer regulation changes for the 2007 deer hunting season. Changes were made to antlerless deer license quotas, the late firearm deer season and the youth firearm deer season...

Department of Natural Resources Director Rebecca Humphries signed an order at a recent meeting of the Natural Resources Commission to enable the DNR to purchase 1,840 acres in the central Upper Peninsula as part of the Winter Deer Habitat Initiative. The parcel encompasses parts of northern Menominee and northwestern Delta counties near the community of Hendricks...

The Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that July 15 through Aug. 15 is the application period for public land antlerless deer licenses for the 2007 deer hunting season. Public land antlerless licenses will be available only through the drawing process unless there are licenses left over after the application period...

The Michigan departments of Agriculture (MDA) and Natural Resources (DNR), along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), today announced the confirmation of Sirex Woodwasp in Macomb County. A single specimen was collected from a trap on July 6 and later identified by the USDA...

Department of Natural Resources officials today announced that a surface improvement project for the 62-mile Gaylord to Mackinaw City Rail Trail has begun this week in Gaylord...

Law enforcement officials with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are seeking information in a wildlife poaching incident which occurred earlier this month in Marquette County in the Upper Peninsula...