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U.P. wildlife

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Jun 22, 20263 min read

Meet the Lake Sturgeon: a 150-Million-Year-Old Living Fossil Still Cruising U.P. Rivers and Lake Superior

Seven feet long, older than the ice age, and still gliding along the bottom of the water you grew up on. There's a fish swimming in the U.P. right now whose kind was already...

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Jun 20, 20266 min read

Are There Mountain Lions in the Upper Peninsula? The DNR Just Confirmed Cubs for the First Time

For the first time in over a century, a mother cougar and two cubs are living in the U.P. — and 2025...

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Jun 14, 20263 min read

This 95,000-Acre U.P. Refuge Brought Back the Giant Swan, and You Can See Them From Your Car

At Seney National Wildlife Refuge, trumpeter swans that had all but vanished now raise their young on the quiet pools, and summer...

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Jun 11, 20263 min read

Michigan’s Latest Published Minimum Estimate Counted 762 Wolves in the U.P.

Michigan's latest published winter estimate counted a minimum of 762 wolves in the U.P. in 2024., hunting in packs out in the...

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Jun 9, 20263 min read

If You Grew Up on a U.P. Lake, This One Sound Will Take You Right Back

The haunting call of the common loon is the sound of home to anyone who ever spent a summer up north Ask...

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Jun 6, 20265 min read

Forty Years Ago, Michigan Brought Moose Back to the U.P. by Dangling Them From Helicopters

It took tranquilizer darts, slings, a 600-mile road trip, and 35-below cold, but the western U.P. has had moose ever since Here...

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