Get all your fishing information here, including rules and regulations, license info, the weekly fishing report and much more. Use the link above to visit the fishing home page, or go directly to your area of interest below:
Get all your hunting information here, including hunting season dates, rules and regulations, and much more. Use the button above to visit the hunting home page, or go directly to your area of interest below:
Information on DNR shooting and archery ranges, rules and regulations, resources to get started and more. Use the button above to visit the target shooing and archery home page, or go directly to one of the pages below:
Find snowmobile trail permit info, maps, rules and regulations and more. USE THE BUTTON ABOVE TO VISIT THE SNOWMOBILE HOMEPAGE or go directly to you area of interest below:
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.
Find facility info, overnight info, an event calendar and much more.
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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Renewable energy is produced from renewable sources such as sun and wind. Switching from using electricity produced by fossil fuels to renewable sources is one an important way to lessen the negative effects of climate change.
We are working with partners to install renewable energy technologies. The energy produced from these projects helps power public DNR facilities and beyond. Read about some of the exciting ways we are implementing renewable energy below.
Across the department, we are moving towards utilizing electric vehicles and equipment, such as side-by-sides, chainsaws, trucks and more. Some of our parks are already using 100 percent electric trucks for operations and maintenance. Switching to EVs helps us reduce gas and diesel use, while transitioning to using more renewable sources for the electricity that electric vehicles and equipment will require.
In addition, several state parks now have EV charging stations available for everyone to use, with more on the way!
Solar panels installed on rooftops and on the ground at our facilities are helping to offset our electrical use. We’ve been both installing panels at our hatcheries, parks, and customer service centers, with more projects in the works.
We are working to reduce energy usage and make state fish hatcheries a leader in the use of green technology. Five out of our six fish hatcheries are now offsetting their energy use with solar. Oden State Fish Hatchery has two arrays installed and the other four facilities each have a single array.
In addition, we have worked with solar developers to install solar arrays at six state parks and one customer service center. The solar developer will own and maintain the equipment, while we benefit from lower-cost energy!
Former industrial sites, mining sites and old landfills (collectively referred to as “brownfields,”) are often difficult to redevelop due to environmental issues. These and other areas of state forests that are not productive for growing trees can host solar arrays. Constructing large-scale solar arrays, called "brightfields," on these sites is a way to put public lands back in productive use and produce clean, renewable energy, helping the DNR and Michigan achieve sustainability goals.
Through a competitive process, the DNR has an agreement with a large-scale solar array company for a pilot site:
This project will repurpose underused public lands for greater benefit, increase the local tax base and diversify energy sources.
Geothermal energy is energy produced from the heat that is naturally generated underground. One example of how we use this renewable energy source is the geothermal heating and cooling system at Tawas Point Lighthouse in Tawas Point State Park. In the coming years, we are planning on replacing several outdated HVAC systems within our state park system with geothermal systems. We also plan on offsetting the electrical use of the geothermal systems with solar power, to create a true 100 percent renewable energy heating and cooling system.
Wind turbines have been offsetting electrical use at Straits State Harbor since 2010. Energy use is particularly high at harbors in the winter to power specialized ice suppression equipment to keep the water near docks open. Wind energy will continue to be an important part of how we power state harbors.
