Free boating safety course offered at Detroit Boat Show Feb. 21 The Detroit Boat Show is partnering with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Conservation Officers and the Oakland County Marine Division to offer a free boating safety class at Cobo Center during the Detroit Boat Show. Those who finish the class will get one […]
The Department of Natural Resources recently announced that, effective Jan. 1, 2015, multiple changes have been made to Michigan’s Master Angler program, which allows anglers to submit large fish they have caught for recognition. The program has been in place since 1973. The Master Angler program recognizes two categories of catches: catch-and-keep and catch-and-immediate-release. Previously, […]
Lake Erie’s water temperature at the end of November fell to 40 degrees. That’s the coldest Nov. 30 reading in Buffalo since 1976, when the lake temperature was 38 degrees. Last winter, ice covered 92.5 percent of the Great Lakes – the most since 1979. As of the middle of November, ice was already forming […]
Visitors to the $12.1 million National Museum of the Great Lakes will find a family friendly atmosphere. There have been 8,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The shipwrecks are compelling tales. They amount to one shipwreck every 11 days for the last 250 years. There are more shipwrecks per surface square mile on the Great […]
According to his statue in Grand Circus Park in Detroit, Michigan, Hazen S. Pingree is the Idol of the People with a long political career. He served as Mayor of Detroit from 1889-1897 and as Governor of Michigan from 1897-1901. If Pingree had had his way, however, none of that would have happened. When approached […]
The public is invited to participate in the annual Lake Minnewanna Fishing Tournament at Metamora-Hadley Recreation Area, in southwestern Lapeer County, Saturday, Sept. 13, from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Trophies and prizes will be awarded for various age groups. Pre-registration is not required. The park will have a limited supply of fishing equipment available at no charge […]
Antlerless deer license applications on sale until Aug. 15 The Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that the application period for antlerless deer licenses ends Aug. 15. Hunters may apply for one license in any open Deer Management Unit statewide; a nonrefundable $5 fee is charged at the time of application. Drawing results and leftover […]
On the dark night of October 7, 1902, the schooner, Ann Maria, sunk just off Kincardine’s harbour, weighed down by a load of coal from a Lake Erie port for the Kincardine salt block. A hard breeze blowing from the west and northwest whipped up whitecaps in Lake Huron causing the Ann Maria to stagger […]
Jerry Romanowski watched thousands of 6-inch Atlantic salmon dance across the water Tuesday, minutes after they dove into Lexington State Harbor. Romanowski, a director of the Flint River Valley Steelheaders, drove from Lapeer to set off small fireworks to scare cormorants hoping to make an easy meal of the young fish. “It’s important for the […]
Underwater explorer Barry Clifford said he found sunken off Haiti what he thinks is the wreck of Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus’ long lost flagship from his first journey to the Americas. Clifford, working for an operation funded by the History Channel, claims he led a team that found and investigated the wreck in the exact […]