Conservation

A northern Michigan homeowner was surprised to see a hummingbird at his feeder in the middle of winter. But the intrigue only increased when the little bird turned out to be a species that's native to the West Coast.

The arctic grayling vanished from Michigan in the 1930s, but the salmon-like fish could soon make a comeback. Around 500,000 fertilized eggs could be stocked this spring.

The new land preserve will be called Peckham's 100 Acre Wood. Its name comes from the family who owned the land for 80 years before gifting to the land conservancy.

The first round of elk season in Michigan has started, and the state says it will give a financial reward to tipsters who successfully report illegal poaching.

A new monitoring system in the Manistee River will soon help researchers keep a closer eye on a threatened fish species.

A conservation organization claims the Maple River is among the first in the country to be returned to its free-flowing state.

Cheboygan students recently released their class pet — a juvenile lake sturgeon — into the Black River. WCMU's Teresa Homsi led a small team of student reporters from the middle school to cover the event.

The state is asking anglers to report if they catch trout with tags in the Saginaw Bay region.

The project could make the river more appealing to arctic grayling — a fish species that disappeared from the state around 90 years ago.

Wolf and moose populations are stabilizing on the only national park in Michigan.