When a pair of campers became stranded and soaked on a chilly night this past March, two of Michigan's conservation officers came to their rescue.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sgt. Brian Olsen and Officer Ben McAteer responded around 5 a.m. on March 22 to a report that two men were stranded in Dead Stream Swamp, an 11,000-plus-acre wetland in northeastern Missaukee County, just west of Higgins Lake.

Olsen and McAteer hiked into the remote swamp for about an hour when they found the campers, both soaked and chilled from a rain that started the previous evening and turned to snow overnight. Temperatures had dropped to around 20 degrees. One of the men's inhalers had frozen and he was having trouble breathing.

The DNR officers made a fire to help them thaw out. Two more officer

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