Some 420 acres of state-managed, forested land near Gaylord, and nearly 1,100 acres near Roscommon, would be leased to solar developers, and portions clear-cut ...

Payments from the State of Michigan, in some communities, are having huge impacts on the budgets of small townships that ...

Michiganians are witnessing a classic case of environmental policy gone awry. The state Department of Natural Resources has ...

Environmental advocates and forestry experts question Michigan’s decision to deforest state land for solar arrays.

This is a high-voltage power transmission line that runs through public trust land in Otsego County's Hayes Township, seen on ...

This article was updated from the version that appeared in the Jan. 9 print edition of the Avalanche. The proposed lease of a 420-acre portion of state land by the Michigan Department of Natural ...

GAYLORD, MI - Before it became public knowledge, foresters within the Michigan Department of Natural Resources chafed at the ...