Inland walleye fishing is closed. The inland season for walleye, pike, and musky will re-open on April 26th. Walleye fishing is open year-round in the Lower Peninsula Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River, and the Detroit River. Ice conditions around the southern sections of the Lower Peninsula are starting to deteriorate and may no longer be safe. All anglers need to use extreme caution this time of year as late ice can be extremely dangerous...

The Gerald Eddy Discovery Center has announced its spring programs for 2008. The center is located at Waterloo State Recreation Area near Chelsea...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources today announced that a wildlife track found in Delta County is most likely from a cougar...

Law enforcement officials with the Department of Natural Resources are seeking information in a wildlife poaching incident which occurred in February in eastern Missaukee County involving a bald eagle...

A combination of approximately 600-800 canvasback and redhead ducks have turned up dead along the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair shorelines, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The die-off likely has been caused by malnutrition, as toxicology tests on the ducks have ruled out other causes, DNR wildlife biologists said...

Disease surveillance and monitoring efforts by the Department of Natural Resources during the 2007 white-tailed deer hunting season showed that the prevalence rate for bovine tuberculosis (TB) dropped to 1.4 percent in Deer Management Unit 452. DMU 452 is the core area of the TB outbreak in northeastern Lower Michigan that includes parts of Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency and Oscoda counties...

Anglers are reminded that ice shanties placed upon waters in the southern half of the Lower Peninsula should have been removed by March 1st. In all areas of the state, a shanty must be removed if ice conditions become unsafe, regardless of the date. The new 2008 fishing licenses went on sale March 1st. Copies of the 2008 Michigan Fishing Guide and the Inland Trout and Salmon Guide are now available where licenses are sold...

The Mason Tract, a 4,700-acre special management area in southeast Crawford County, is undergoing some timber cutting as a part of the area's management plan, said Department of Natural Resources officials...

The Michigan Forest Visitor Center at Hartwick Pines State Park near Grayling has scheduled programs this spring aimed at maple syrup making, trout fly-tying and Earth Day...

The Department of Natural Resources reminds people to "GO-Get Outdoors" and make reservations now for their summer camping or boating getaway. Many good campsites and boat slips remain available for the 2008 summer season...