Object Type: Folder
In Folder: Audiovisual Materials
Forest Management fire officers confer during a prescribed fire. These prescribed fires are intentionally ignited under a strict set of weather and site conditions to accomplish a specific resource management or ecological objective.
A firefighter saturates the ground in order to prevent further fires from starting.
Sign marking a volunteer day through the Stewardship Program at one of the state recreation areas. Volunteers help to control invasive plants by participating in volunteer days such as this one, where they are pulling garlic mustard.
DNR employees and volunteers place a band on a Canada goose. The DNR is responsible for banding hundreds of ducks and geese each year, with quotas set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service according to local conditions. The banding process is performed by DNR employees and trained volunteers. Once the age and sex are recorded, a metal, pre-numbered, federal ID band is placed loosely around the goose's leg and gently pushed closed with a pair of pliers, as shown in this photograph. Waterfowl hunters across the United States and Canada are asked to report any harvested birds with federal identification leg bands. Doing so assists waterfowl managers when it comes to setting future hunting seasons and bag limits.
Women hunters check out a ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) one of them shot.
Kids on a Boys and Girls Club camping trip enjoy playing in a campground lake.
Collecting walleye for egg take on the Tittabawassee River by the DOW chemical plant in Midland.
Careful handling of an eastern massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus).
A group of newly trained conservation officers being sworn in. Michigan conservation officers (COs) are fully commissioned as state peace officers, with full power and authority to enforce Michigan's criminal laws. COs are a unique class of law enforcement office
Former DNR Director Rebecca A. Humphries (director from May 2004 - January 2011) spear fishing in an ice shanty.
Biologist Barb Barton marks the wing of a Mitchell's Satyr butterfly in Jackson County as part of a mark-and-recapture program. The adult butterflies are caught, marked with a number on a wing with a fine-tipped felt pen and released. The number of times the marked butterflies are recaptured compared to the overall number of specimens captured gives biologists an idea about the size of the population.
A rider saddles her horse before hitting the trail at one of the many state parks and recreation areas that offer equestrian trails.
View of the 5-stand shooting range at Island Lake Recreation Area. This is one of six DNR staffed shooting ranges in Michigan. This particular one is vendor-operated.
Group of children dressed up for Halloween trick or treating at a campground.
A pair of snowmobilers on one of Michigan's many snowmobile trails. Michigan attracts thousands of snowmobile enthusiasts each winter.
A stack of aspen harvested by the DNR 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.
DNR Fisheries Division employees gather brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) fingerlings to be transferred to a truck for transportation to an Upper Peninsula stream.
The 2009 annual Atlanta Elk Pole Contest, where hunters can display their elk kills to the public and win prizes.
An aerial view of the damage from the Sleeper Lake Fire around a lake.
A firefighter checks a water hose for leaks in a burned-out section of forest in the Sleeper Lake region.
Forest Management fire officer sets a prescribed fire. These prescribed fires are intentionally ignited under a strict set of weather and site conditions to accomplish a specific resource management or ecological objective.
Exterior of the Gerald E. Eddy Discovery Center at Waterloo Recreation Area near Chelsea. The Eddy Discovery Center introduces visitors to the world of geology and to the diverse natural habitats that are found within Waterloo's 20,000-plus acres.
A helicopter drops water from a helicopter bucket onto an area of the forest affected by the Sleeper Lake Fire.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources employees discuss plans of containment concerning the Sleeper Lake Fire.
After having its information recorded and being banded by DNR employees and volunteers, a Canada goose is let loose. The DNR is responsible for banding hundreds of ducks and geese each year, with quotas set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service according to local conditions. The banding process is performed by DNR employees and trained volunteers. Once the age and sex are recorded, a metal, pre-numbered, federal ID band is placed loosely around the goose's leg and gently pushed closed with a pair of pliers. Waterfowl hunters across the United States and Canada are asked to report any harvested birds with federal identification leg bands. Doing so assists waterfowl managers when it comes to setting future hunting seasons and bag limits.
A Canada goose with a leg band, that has garbage stuck around its neck, in a field with other geese and its goslings.
Volunteers plant a tree along an urban street. More than 15 percent of Michigan's total statewide tree cover is found in metro areas.
Aerial view of Battle Creek River restoration project near Charlotte.
The DNR Fisheries Division research vessel 'Chinook' trawling on Lake Huron. The ship has been used by the DNR for a variety of purposes since 1947.
Close-up of a yellow-collared scape moth (Cisseps fulvicollis), called such for the collar of color at their scape (where the antennae join the body).
View of a freighter on St. Marys River from Lime Island State Recreation Area. The 980-acre island sits on the St. Marys River Navigation Channel between the Upper Peninsula and Canada. Features of the island include that it was the site of summer camps of Woodland Indians approximately 5,000 years ago, lime kilns were constructed there in the early 1700s, and it was a 20th century sportsmen's club.
DNR employees place a blindfold over a captured elk's eyes as part of a capture operation for the DNR's four-year research project to evaluate the movement patterns, population characteristics and health of elk near Atlanta in Montmorency County. A helicopter was used to drive the elk into open areas, where an individual animal could be captured in a net fired from a special net gun. Once ensnared, the elk was subdued by field researchers, and then fitted with radio collars, provided a field checkup for basic health signs and given an antibiotic shot. Scientists also took hair, blood and fecal samples. The operation captured 20 bulls and 20 cows, achieving its capture goal.
