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The 2023 Take a Kid Fishing Weekend overlaps with the national Get Outdoors Day, which falls on Saturday, June 10, and provides Minnesotans with free admission to state parks.

The Iowa State Patrol says a DNR park ranger was hit by another driver using an electronic device.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources awarded 30,000 in grant funds to Branson West to evaluate their water systems for needed improvements.

The Michigan DNR is emphasizing the need to follow burn ban protocols because those who accidentally start wildfires could end up footing a hefty bill to pay for damages.

The 2023 Take a Kid Fishing Weekend overlaps with the national Get Outdoors Day, which falls on Saturday, June 10, and provides Minnesotans with free admission to state parks.

The dry conditions is due to a lack of rain since flooding earlier in the spring, resulting in the land drying out across the U.P. and a series of fire bans across Michigan to help prevent fires.

A wildfire in northern Michigan is fully contained, state officials said. The Wilderness Trail Fire in the Grayling area burned about 2,400 acres.

The cause of the fire is believed to be a campfire on private property near Staley Lake.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds everyone that it is common during higher temperatures for fish and other creatures such as turtles, frogs, toads and crayfish to die.

The Michigan DNR said the wildfire that broke out in the Wilderness Trail area over the weekend is now 100 percent contained.