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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.
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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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The way we work in Michigan's forests has come a long way since the lumber heyday in the 1800s. Today, forest managers work to improve forest health, boost wildlife habitat, conduct sustainable harvests to produce renewable goods and ensure that we'll have forests today and for future generations.
Here are some pilot programs the DNR is exploring to benefit the environment and Michigan communities.
The DNR has initiated a pilot project exploring opportunities to produce carbon offset credits on state forest lands.
The purchase of carbon credits generated through sustainable forest management is an emerging way for businesses to offset emissions that they cannot otherwise reduce.
Funds from the sale of carbon credits help forest managers to invest in practices that can help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on forests. These practices include planting more trees to store carbon and introducing new tree species that may be better adapted to future climate conditions.
The DNR is making strides to develop the use of an innovative, sustainable building method called mass timber. Mass timber allows for construction of large and tall buildings using engineered wood panels, boasting features such as:
The DNR is working with partners at Michigan State University and the Michigan Forest Biomaterials Institute to improve knowledge of this method and grow its use in our state. The DNR is building a new Upper Peninsula Customer Service Center in Newberry that will be constructed to showcase mass timber techniques.
Brownfields, including some former mining sites and old landfills, 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 agreements with a large-scale solar array company for two pilot sites. The two sites are the 593-acre former Groveland Mine in the Upper Peninsula's Dickinson County leased by Circle Power Renewables, and the 169-acre 7 Mile Pit in the Lower Peninsula's Crawford County leased by Copper Country Power, LLC.
These projects will repurpose underused public lands for greater benefit, increase the local tax base and diversify energy sources.
The DNR will be a cooperative partner in planting one trillion trees by 2030 through the global Trillion Trees campaign. To further this goal, the DNR has pledged to plant 50 million trees by 2030 and aims to inspire people to plant trees.
You can lend a hand! Plant a tree and add it to our tree-planting map to watch the canopy grow. This will set the foundation for healthy urban and rural forests so we can enjoy them today into the future. Now is the time for trees – plant it forward!
