Tag: Michigan

When an opossum turned up shot by an arrow in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Lisa Walsh, a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, decided to drive up to check...

Towns are few and far between amid the forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but even these small amounts of urbanization can affect the biodiversity of bird communities, a student research...

Since wildlife managers first detected chronic wasting disease among southern Michigan’s wild deer populations in 2015, they have detected 11 more cases, all appearing in a westerly direction from the...

The spread of chronic wasting disease — a deadly neurological disease in deer and other cervids — into more counties in Michigan has caused the Michigan Natural Resources Commission to...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is awaiting confirmation that a fifth deer in the state has tested positive for chronic wasting disease — a fatal disease that attacks the...

On Nov. 12, the Michigan Department of Transportation’s Aeronautics Commission presented its Award of Excellence to Pete Butchko, CWB® and Michigan TWS chapter member. The award was given in recognition...

With deer hunting season underway in Michigan, hunters are beginning to help the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in their efforts to test deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) —...

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease that affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose, was confirmed for the first time in a free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)...

Among the most endangered bird populations in the country, Great Lakes piping plovers are imperiled chiefly by significant loss of and degradation to the wide sandy beaches they require for...