native species

This week, staghorn sumac is blooming. Sumac is important because it provides nectar and pollen for bees in the spring. But its secret value is that it supplies food during seasons when little else is available.

Many popular decorative plants are invasive, yet still legal for sale. One program that started in northern Michigan is trying to solve that problem.

Bob Sanders and Angela Kujawa have driven on snowmobile trails near the Manistee National Forest every week this winter following a steady beeping sound.…

There was a plan to release hundreds of pine martens — a slender, furry predator native to the Upper Midwest — in Michigan's lower peninsula over several…

In a dim, out-of-the-way corner of the state fish hatchery in Marquette are a few thousand skinny, grey fish, each no more than nine inches long. “They…

Arctic grayling were wiped out of Michigan nearly a century ago. Since then, researchers have been trying to restore the iconic fish to the state, without…

Donning face masks that read “FishPass,” tribal leaders, federal representatives, and city officials planted shovels into the earth above the Union Street…