Isle Royale National Park and the Michigan DNR are conducting a creel survey to understand fish populations and angler habits. The survey, the first since 1998, will inform management strategies ...

The last Isle Royale creel survey took place in 1998. The new creel survey will inform management strategies to enhance fishing experiences, while preserving the ecological integrity of the ...

The "creel" study at Isle Royale will ask anglers to report on their catch rates, species, and fishing methods. This survey method is named after a “creel,” which is a basket historically used ...

The 2009 winter study of moose and wolves on Isle Royale shows numbers of moose steady or dropping and wolf numbers surprisingly up. This year's survey found 24 wolves, up one from 2008.

A survey of Lake Superior lake trout at Isle Royale turned up a monster fish: A 53-inch, 34-pound redfin. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources conducts the lake trout survey every five ...

Isle Royale's moose population, meanwhile, stands at 840, down 14% from last year. Overall, the moose population has declined by almost 60% since 2019, when the population peaked at a little more ...

ISLE ROYALE, MI – It was a year ... M183′s mate, the last island-born female, was not seen during this past winter’s survey. Researchers suspect she might be dead, too.

The National Park Service has pulled researchers off of Isle Royale due to unsafe ice conditions, scrubbing the annual survey of moose and wolves on Lake Superior's largest island.

Rolf Peterson believes two wolves remain alive on the island, although neither was actually sighted during this year’s winter survey. The 2016 annual report on the Isle Royale wolf/moose study ...

A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers' annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades. Isle ...

DULUTH — The warmest, least snowy Northland winter in years, maybe decades, has taken another casualty: The long-standing Isle Royale moose and wolf survey conducted by scientists from Michigan ...