Michigan Department of Natural Resources

For the first time, Michigan's Fisheries Division is getting funding specifically for whitefish recovery, but officials say it's not enough to solve the ecosystem issues causing the species' decline.

State agencies said the pipeline tunnel construction would affect Native American burial sites, wetlands and threatened and endangered species but concluded the benefits of the tunnel outweigh the damages. The project remains tied up in court.

To help track wild turkey populations, the DNR is asking anyone who sees a mother wild turkey leading a line of baby turkeys to snap a picture and send it in.

Scientists have evidence that another invasive species is in the Great Lakes: the bloody red shrimp.

Biologists from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan State University are heading to the deepest point of Lake Superior to understand why so many of these trout appear emaciated.

The bills were met with swift backlash from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources at a recent hearing in the Michigan House of Representatives.

The yellow perch population in the Saginaw Bay has been consistently decreasing since the late 1980s. They've fallen victim to intense predation from the booming walleye population.

Potential damage to the dams during last week’s high waters means the risk of dam failure could still exist.

Officials with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources have stationed five pumps near the dam to try and divert water as more rain and melting snow are projected in the forecast.

Water is now 18 inches from reaching the top, according to the Michigan State Police. If they reach 12 inches, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it will begin executing an emergency plan that will likely involved evacuations.