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Relatives of the MC/MNR magazine:
Will go here; including information on books authored or edited by MC/MNR staff, books published by the magazine, other documents related to the magazine, periodicals published now that provide some similar information, and such. Below is a very rough preliminary start... There is much more to each of these categories than I have so far.

1. Books by MC/MNR staff:

Warbach, Oscar (Ozz): Mother Nature's Michigan.
Bradt, G. W and Charles E. Schafer: Michigan Wildlife
Sketches
My new friends were barefoot by John Gray. - A story of growing up in the upper Peninsula town of Sagola during the 1920's. Available for sale and as online text from the Ralph Secord Press of the Menominee County Library (many other interesting titles too!)
Russell McKee: Great Lakes Country (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1966)
Russell McKee: Up North (195pp., 2008. ISBN 0981593402. A collection of 14 short stories cleverly connected and set in the Great Lakes Region in the early 1900's. Illustrations by Rick Cunningham, Wooly Bear Press, East Lansing, MI Phone 517-339-2416.)

2. Books published by MNR:

Will compile a list of books published by or in close relation to MNR over the years (with links to MNR magazine information on them) later.

For example, Ozz Warbach's Mother Nature's Michigan, from his long-running series of very detailed illustrations showing satirical views of nature and nature-goers, is still available from the State of Michigan.

3. Books by significant contributors to MC/MNR, or referencing the magazine frequently:
Rough for now, and very minimal. Will add dates, publishers, annotations, etc. later.

Norman F. Smith: Michigan Trees Worth Knowing. Most of these are versions of the original articles that were published in MC in the 1940s.
Helen M. Martin: They Need Not Vanish
William B. Botti, Michael D. Moore: Michigan's State Forests; A Century of Stewardship.
Petersen, Eugene T.: Hunters' Heritage; A History of Hunting in Michigan.
Dave Dempsey: On the Brink; The Great Lakes in the 21st Century.
Dave Dempsey: Ruin & Recovery; Michigan's Rise As a Conservation Leader.
Theodore J. Karamanski: Deep Woods Frontier; A History of Logging in Northern Michigan (Great Lakes Books).
Poindexter, O.F, H. M. Martin, S.G. Bergquist: Rocks and Minerals of Michigan.

4. Magazines published now with similar content:

Michigan Natural Resources magazine was a great service to the People of Michigan and there's reallty noting to replace its mix of natural history, conservation, and other articles about Michigan, especially in a well-designed, advertising-free magazine of high print quality - at least in Michigan.

Fortunately there are still some magazines - many also with long and distinguished histories themselves - that will also appeal to the sort of person who likes MC/MNR. They're not the same, but still good. Some of those people who contributed to MNR have in the past contributed, or even now contribute to these.

I'll work on tracking down information on any good Great-Lakes area publications first, then further afield - I'll be there are one or two state conservation departments still putting out good magazines.

Ontario Nature magazine is of interest to us. it used to be called seaons, back when the organization publishing it was called the Federation of Ontario Naturalists (now it's called Ontario Nature'). It's become more of one of those 'modern' media-flashy magazines with lots of 'lifestyle' advertising than an educational publication, but still wirth looking at or subscribing to.

The Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) publishes Michigan Out of Doors magazine, which has a lot of interesting content.

Woods and Water News is another tabloid-format news magazine aimed at hunters, fishers, gatherers. Along with the many advertisements showing electronic gagerty you shouldn't take into the woods or on the waters, ORVs and SUVs driving where they shouldnt, and of course real estate ads, there's also some articles relating to conservation, natural history, Michigan in general, legislation of note, and actual hunting and fishing.

4. Archival material relating to MC/MNR:

Ozz Warbach's drawings, for example, are in the archive of Michigan.