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Michigan cranks up testing deer for chronic wasting disease
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The Michigan DNR has been ramping up its testing of deer for chronic wasting disease, including new testing efforts in Montcalm, Mecosta and Kent counties.
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Push on to improve conservation education
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Public schools don’t focus enough attention on teaching about conservation as part of the science curricula, a DNR expert and Michigan United Conservation Clubs say.
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Fewer fishing, hunting licenses mean less conservation money
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As the number of hunting and fishing licenses sold in the state drops, DNR and Michigan United Conservation Clubs warn that money for wildlife habitat protection is shrinking as well. For news and outdoors pages.
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Could hunting or U.P. wolves solve Isle Royale moose problem?
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With only one surviving wolf known on Isle Royale, the national park’s moose population is climbing without predators to keep the numbers under control.
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Perfect storm shrinks volunteer corps that protects Michigan shipwrecks
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The state preserves, which protect sunken ships and natural features, receive no state money.
Water
Michigan protects more than a dozen shipwreck areas
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More than a dozen underwater preserves along Michigan’s Great Lakes coastlines have been established to protect hundreds of shipwrecks.
Air
Drones raise issue: Who controls prison airspace?
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State officials say that Michigan prisons are buzzed by drones almost weekly as people try to get cell phones, drugs and other contraband to inmates. State lawmakers want to ban flights over prisons, but they’re stepping on the toes of the FAA which regulates the nation’s airspace.
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New ways with wood open up building opportunities
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Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university’s forestry department are asking, “Why not wood?”
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Shoulder test near Ann Arbor could come to a highway near you
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An experiment allowing Michigan drivers for the first time to legally drive on a highway shoulder could lead to similar efforts across the state.
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Being licensed is not the same as being a trapper
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Nearly 30,000 people buy a Michigan fur harvester license each year. Some are trappers. The others are hunters of furbearing species. But only about half of the people who buy a license actually participate because of the time commitment involved, state officials say.