This year’s Au Sable River Canoe Marathon featured a record 230 paddlers from 21 states and four countries racing overnight from Grayling to Oscoda.
Laura Herberg
Laura Herberg covers outdoor recreation, wildlife and the natural environment for Bridge Michigan as the Outdoors Life reporter on the environmental team. She came to Bridge from Outlier Media and built her career at WDET, where she produced talk shows, anchored the news and hosted podcasts. Named the Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter for Radio Broadcasting four times, Laura holds a master's degree in urban planning from Wayne State University.
A Pacific Northwest native who has also lived in West Virginia and Scotland, Laura has called Detroit home since 2010.
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Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: UP bakery run by monks offers pastries, prayers
Customers come from all over to visit the Jampot, a tiny bakery on a monastery way up on a remote Michigan peninsula.
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Listen: Who’s buried atop Michigan’s tallest mountain?
The name on a gravestone atop Mount Arvon has no clear ties to Michigan. Our reporter looked into why it might be up there.
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Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: Chill with sled dogs in the heat of summer
Long-distance musher Laura Neese opened MI Dog: Michigan’s summer sled dog center to showcase the sport and make money in the off-season.
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Bird flu has killed at least 18 Michigan eagles this year. More deaths feared
Highly pathogenic avian influenza is having a deadly effect on Michigan’s eagle population. A 2022 outbreak reduced breeding pairs. Now cases are going up again, and researchers are watching for a second wave.
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As inflation strains Michigan parks, DNR budgets, lawmakers weigh fee hikes
A package of Senate bills would require every registered vehicle owner to buy a parks pass when renewing their plates, while raising fees for hunting and fishing licenses for the first time in 11 years.
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Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: Staying in a lighthouse is fun, but work, too
From renting to volunteering, opportunities abound in Michigan to sleep in lighthouse quarters. We followed along as guests slept on the grounds of the Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse in the Thumb.
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Seven Michigan lighthouses that offer onsite lodging
Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state and some offer a place to stay
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Michigan Natural Resources Commission punts on coyote decision again
The commission hasn’t voted on the proposal to make coyote hunting year-round since first introducing the idea in March.
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Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: Your guide to hiking state's tallest peak
Reaching the top of this point in the Huron Mountains was voted #6 on the Michigan Dreaming Summer Bucket List.