A female piping plover - a small brown and white bird with a black collar and small beak - standing at the shoreline in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

The first piping plover has arrived (and that's her in the photo!)

The first piping plover to return to the Great Lakes region this spring has been reported at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, marking the official start of another breeding season for the federally endangered shorebird!

Male Great Lakes piping plovers typically return to their summer breeding grounds first, but this year the first plover was a female. #getitgirl #wheremyladiesat #ploverempowerment

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A large brown tent sauna tall enough to stand in with a roof and a chimney

Two words: Portable sauna

Just curious, when you read that headline above did you read it as saa-nuh or sow-nuh? Mmhmm. Thought so. Anyways, Stormy Kromer has partnered with a Wisconsin camping company on a high-end, portable sauna. So cool. Especially if you want a sauna but hate those pesky building permits.

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A cartoon map showing a blue Paradise Lake and block of land that is now called the John Siegel Nature Preserve

New 93-acre nature preserve now open

NEW: the John Siegel Nature Preserve spans 93 acres in Carp Lake, about six miles south of Mackinaw City. Combined with three adjacent conservancy properties, the new preserve now creates a nature preserve complex totaling 285 acres with significant shoreline frontage on Paradise Lake!

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