Investigative Article

From staff reports The Glen Lake Association aims to improve fishing in the Glen Lakes this year. The key to improving Glen Lake’s natural warm water fish populations, such as perch, pike, and bass, is a good spawning habitat, writes Rob Karner, project manager for the Association and biologist and teacher at the Leelanau School. […]

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor In January, as snowshoe hares bound across Thoreson Road and minks skirt a frozen wetland at the foot of Alligator Hill, northern Michigan black bears snooze in their dens, tucked into secret places throughout the Upper (U.P.) and northern Lower Peninsulas. During this month, one of nature’s most intriguing phenomena […]

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor South of Lake Leelanau, a white gull glides in an empty sky once filled with flocks of arching wings and high-pitched calls. Beneath him, grouse feast on thousands of berries from invasive autumn olive bushes sold by a government agency that now knows better. Nearby, an eight-point buck and his […]

By Chuck Olson Sun contributor Invasive sea lampreys are in the Crystal River. More than 50 were seen entering the river from Lake Michigan in late May and early June. Spawning pairs were found in the river on June 3 and June 25. Sea lampreys are aggressive, attach to their prey with a suction-cup-like mouth, […]

Michigan’s presidential primary election has come and gone. The Republican candidates who graced our state the past two weeks have moved onto South Carolina and Nevada after Michigan native Mitt Romney secured the victory he needed to stay in the race. But the major Democratic candidates were notably absent from the motor state, and ultimately […]