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In Folder: Audiovisual Materials
An aerial view of trees that are still smoldering due to the Sleeper Lake Fire.
An aerial view of a forest, showing the damage caused by the Sleeper Lake Fire.
A group of small-game hunters with their eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) kills.
A group of DNR employees plant tree seedlings grown at the Wyman Nursery. Located in the Upper Peninsula near Manistique, the DNR's Wyman Nursery has raised trees for replanting Michigan's forests since 1927. The trees from Wyman help to quickly regenerate cutover areas, replant tracts harvested because of disease and rehabilitate areas scorched by wildfire.
Aspen being stacked after harvesting for pulpwood. The pulpwood is then offered for sale. Sales are conducted for the purposes of harvesting mature and over mature trees, responding to past or predicted insect and disease outbreaks, salvaging fire-damaged trees, enhancing wildlife habitat and improving health of forest trees. All harvests are designed to enhance growth of the residual trees or to promote full and prompt regeneration.
A group of DNR employees, boy scouts and volunteers extricate mallard ducks from a net to be banded near East Lansing. Every year, the DNR attempts to band ducks as part of a national survey, which focuses on mallards, wood ducks and black ducks. The mallards are affixed with aluminum bands; each with its own unique number, plus a phone number and address. Hunters who later harvest a banded duck are encouraged to report the bird's band number to the telephone number or address printed on the band. The goal of this program is to engage hunters in the collection of data about ducks and to help set quotas and establish hunting seasons that coincide with migration patterns.
An airman sits on the open side of a helicopter while a helicopter bucket hangs beneath the craft.
Campers relax, lounging around their campsite at one of the state recreation areas.
Angler pulls up his flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) catch from his boat. While a somewhat uncommon fish in Michigan, some dedicated anglers pursue it.
Three children play in the Platte River near the Lake Michigan lakeshore.
A conservation officers give a child a beach ball as part of the DNR's "Wear it Michigan!" campaign encouraging boaters to always wear personal flotation devices while on the water.
An angler's collection of fishing lures used to catch large fish such as northern pike.
Two moose, who are designed to withstand the heavy snows and cold temperatures of Upper Peninsula winters, resting in a glade.
A conservation officer stops hunters to check that they are following the pertinent laws and regulations.
A group of Michigan Department of Natural Resources employees and Luce County Sheriffs discuss the Sleeper Lake Fire Incident Action Plan.
A DNR employee teaches a child about different animals using pelts at a state campground.
Conservation officer recruits work on target practice and shooting skills. Conservation officers are fully commissioned as state peace officers, with full power and authority to enforce Michigan's criminal laws. They are a unique class of law enforcement officer, whose duties include enforcing regulations for outdoor recreational activities such as off-road vehicle use, snowmobiling, boating, hunting and fishing. New conservation officers undergo nearly 10 months of extensive recruit training.
DNR Fisheries Division employees out of the St. Clair Research Station measure lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) on their research vessel Channel Cat as part of their Lake St. Clair sturgeon survey.
Conservation officer recruits work on their lifesaving and public safety skills, working specifically on learning how to save people who have fallen through ice. Conservation officers are fully commissioned as state peace officers, with full power and authority to enforce Michigan's criminal laws. They are a unique class of law enforcement officer, whose duties include enforcing regulations for outdoor recreational activities such as off-road vehicle use, snowmobiling, boating, hunting and fishing. New conservation officers undergo nearly 10 months of extensive recruit training.
An Adopt-a-Forest program volunteer collects trash that has been illegally dumped on public land. The Adopt-a-Forest program is sponsored jointly by the Michigan Coalition for Clean Forests, which includes the Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service, Michigan Forest Resource Alliance, and many caring organizations, corporations and individuals. The coalition works with law enforcement to eliminate illegal dumping through its educational campaigns, physical cleanup of dump sites and advocating alternative methods of disposal (such as composting, recycling and annual community-wide cleanups).
A helicopter transports a tree for the Au Sable Headwaters Restoration project. The tree will be taken to the Au Sable River headwaters and strategically dropped into the river. The purpose of the project is to make up for the environmental damage done more than a century ago by loggers denuding the banks. Normally, trees along a river get old, die and fall in. This project tries to mimic nature in creating diverse in-stream habitat. Woody debris has always been a key component for in-stream habitat for a variety of reasons. For one thing, woody debris provides cover for fish to help protect them from predation. Large woody debris also helps increase the productivity of the river by trapping vegetation, an important factor in the food web.
DNR employee applies herbicide (the green on the cut portions in the foreground) to newly cut buckthorn shrubs to prevent future growth. Both common and glossy buckthorn are considered invasive non-native shrubs. Their rapid growth and prolific seed production make these plants aggressive invaders that can form dense thickets which shade and displace native understory plants, shrubs, and tree seedlings.
Firefighters consult maps during the efforts to suppress the Sleeper Lake wildfire. The 2007 lightning-caused fire which burned more than 18,000 acres in the eastern Upper Peninsula. It was the third largest fire in Michigan's history
A stand of ash trees that have been damaged by the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle. In the spring, ash trees will not leaf out in portions of the canopy due to the feeding of emerald ash borer larvae. This feeding leads to canopy dieback and eventually death.
DNR employees conduct a population survey on one of Michigan's rivers to collect data for the Fisheries Division's Status and Trends Program (STP). The STP surveys fish communities and habitats in lakes and streams that are representative of the broad range of waters found in Michigan.
A group of Michigan Conservation Officers and a Luce County Sheriff discuss their new assignments.
Lake trout fingerlings preparing to have their adipose fins clipped using the AutoFish system at the Marquette State Fish Hatchery. The DNR's Fish Production Section produces and delivers fish of the correct species, strain (a genetic type of a specific species), size, date and location as directed by Fisheries Division Management Unit staff. The lake trout have their adipose fins clipped to distinguish them as hatchery fish. The AutoFish system allows for the fins to be clipped without the fish being handled by humans, which is far more beneficial to the health of the fish.
A flock of double-crested cormorants take flight at the Les Cheneaux Islands in Lake Huron.
A group of students participating in the National Archery in the Schools Program. As part of the national program, the DNR offers free basic archery instructor courses to educators, predominantly physical education teachers, who wish to implement the program in their school. Today, more than 100 schools representing 37 counties across the state have started a program, with over 5,000 Michigan students taking part this year.
A woman fishes in the Detroit River while construction goes on behind her at William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor in Detroit. William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor is situated on 31 acres in downtown Detroit. The scenic harbor, dedicated in 2004, includes 52 slips. A harbor light, which is a replica of the Tawas Point Lighthouse, welcomes boaters into this marina. Michigan's 97th state park, William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor is Michigan’s only urban state park.
Visitors to Palms Brook State Park view the underwater features of Kitch-iti-kipi (Big Spring) from the observation raft. Two hundred feet across, the 40-foot deep Kitch-iti-kipi is Michigan's largest freshwater spring. Over 10,000 gallons a minute gush from fissures in the underlying limestone. The flow continues throughout the year at a constant 45 degree Fahrenheit. By means of the self-operated observation raft, visitors are guided to vantage points overlooking fascinating underwater features: ancient tree trunks, lime-encrusted branches and fat trout appear suspended in nothingness as they slip through crystal waters far below.
DNR employees use the archery and pellet gun range for hunter safety instruction as well as archery programs at the Carl T. Johnson Hunting and Fishing Center in Cadillac.
DNR employees transfer brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) fingerlings raised at a Fisheries Division fish hatchery into an Upper Peninsula stream.
A tree being harvested as part of the Au Sable Headwaters Restoration project. The tree will next be airlifted to the Au Sable River headwaters and strategically dropped into the river. The purpose of the project is to make up for the environmental damage done more than a century ago by loggers denuding the banks. Normally, trees along a river get old, die and fall in. This project tries to mimic nature in creating diverse in-stream habitat. Woody debris has always been a key component for in-stream habitat for a variety of reasons. For one thing, woody debris provides cover for fish to help protect them from predation. Large woody debris also helps increase the productivity of the river by trapping vegetation, an important factor in the food web.
DNR employees transfer brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) fingerlings raised at a Fisheries Division fish hatchery into an Upper Peninsula stream.
DNR employees aboard the Alpena Fisheries Research Station boat Chinook sort fish caught in gillnets for the annual Saginaw Bay fish community survey. Each fish is identified, counted and measured for total length. Target species, where more information is required, also will be weighed and examined to determine sex, maturity, stomach contents and more. Scales or spines are collected to allow the age of the fish to be determined later. The survey requires that most of these fish are sacrificed, but biologists learn an enormous amount about the health of the fish populations and often the same specimens are provided to others for more study; any fish remaining of any consumption value are donated to food pantries.
Smoke rising in the distance from the Sleeper Lake wildfire. The 2007 lightning-caused fire which burned more than 18,000 acres in the eastern Upper Peninsula. It was the third largest fire in Michigan's history
