TRAVERSE CITY — A 20 year long restoration effort on the Boardman-Ottaway River in Traverse City is nearing completion, but a legal roadblock has delayed the effort. The Boardman once had four dams, ...

The Fish Pass project to remove the last of four old dams on the Boardman River between the city of Kalkaska and West Grand Traverse Bay is back on track after the Michigan Court of Appeals issued a ...

Sort fish, harvest wild rice, and what a drifting buoy revealed about winter on the lakes. A project on a Michigan river uses an obstacle course to keep undesirable fish away. Take a canoe out onto ...

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians released almost 900 young sturgeon into a northwest Michigan river this summer, the first in a decades-long effort to bring the Great Lakes ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Work continues on FishPass, a project designed to complete a decades-long effort to restore the Boardman (Ottaway) River by reconnecting it with Lake Michigan while preventing invasive ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The FishPass Project in Traverse City has seen significant transformations over the summer, with water now flowing in areas that were dry land just months ago. Leah Bagdon ...

A $2.4 million fish-sorting weir was up and running this week on the Kalama River. The idea is to prevent hatchery fish from mingling with what biologists consider “wild” fish. With the new structure, ...