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Want to find tasty morel mushrooms in the forest? Click the box above for tips and tricks to fill your basket.
Find cross-country ski, ice fishing , snowmobiling info and much more.
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Find a great trail experience near you - whether you want to hike, bike, snowmobile or ride an ORV. From long, paved linear trails to rugged forest terrain, Michigan offers trail opportunities for all abilities and interests.
Visitor Centers across the state provide education programs, field trips, archery, fishing, trails and much more. Click the box above to see all our locations, or click the individual location below.
We administer grants that enable our local partners to promote the lifestyles we all enjoy by providing recreational opportunities, enhancing wildlife habitat and ensuring public safety. Visit the grants home page by clicking on the button above, or view a specific area of interest below:
Recreational Safety and Hunter Education
Learn about Michigan's diverse range of fish, plants, trees, reptiles, amphibians, insects and mammals. Click the box above to see all species, or click the species group below.
DNR educators across the state provide fun, educational activities, programs and workshops year-round for adults, families and kids. Click the box above to see all our offerings, or click the program below.
DNR educators provide classroom lessons, field trip opportunities, professional development and experiential programs to teachers around the state. Click the box above to see all our offerings, or click the program below.
DNR forest resources professionals maintain healthy forests, manage wildfire, maintain responsible harvesting certifications and improve wildlife habitat. Click the box above to learn more about Michigan's state forests.
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Companies that produce carbon emissions can offset this negative impact to the environment by purchasing carbon credits from entities that reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. One carbon credit equals 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emission. In this case, state forests absorb carbon as trees grow, locking it into wood and forest products manufactured from harvesting trees. Carbon offset credits represent measured and modeled carbon maintained in the growing state forest and durable wood products such as lumber.
The DNR is using the American Carbon Registry's Improved Forest Management Methodology for non-federal U.S. forestlands. Carbon offset credits from the projects are registered with the ACR. The ACR is a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, founded in 1996 as the world's first private, voluntary greenhouse gas registry.
Anew Climate, formerly Bluesource, is the contracted developer of DNR carbon projects. Anew is a climate action partner that has pioneered creative climate solutions since 2001. With deep expertise across environmental technologies and markets and hundreds of projects in the United States and Canada, Anew is a leader in voluntary, compliance and pre-compliance carbon markets.
Funds from the sale of carbon credits are re-invested into the Forest Development Fund and Game and Fish Fund, which supports DNR climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts.
This project will help the DNR to adapt to climate-related requirements in forest management standards for forest certification, to which the DNR must use for the sustainable management of state forest lands.
Sustainably managed forests provide a variety of benefits to people and nature including clean air and water, wildlife habitat, scenic places for recreation, renewable forest products and carbon storage.
Management of state forest resources and the sale of carbon credits are intended to be complementary. Commercial timber harvest for forest growth and wildlife habitat objectives are specifically compatible with forest carbon projects. Carbon credits can be generated from the management of state forest resources as governed by approved DNR forest management plans. Any changes in management will be driven by any future changes to DNR forest management plans, which are updated every 10-years and are subject to public review prior to adaptation.
Landowners participating in carbon offset projects are not liable to repay offset credits if there is an unintentional, natural loss of forest carbon stocks, such as the effects from a fire, storm, disease or insect damage, in an ACR-registered carbon project. The ACR Improved Forest Management methodology requires that a risk-based proportion of the total carbon credits generated by registered projects be allocated to a communal 'buffer pool' (like a group insurance policy) that projects can draw from in the event of a natural loss of forestland for any project. The DNR would not have to pay back the money received from the project.
DTE Energy announced a commitment to purchase offset credits generated from the first 10 years of the Big Wild project. DTE Energy will offer these offsets to its larger industrial natural gas clients seeking to reduce the impact of carbon emissions, much as they do for their residential and small business customers, through DTE's voluntary Natural Gas Balance program. The DNR plans to partner with carbon buyers that are implementing meaningful measures to reduce their carbon footprint.
