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Friday: Outdoors

Outdoors North: The powerful peace in being alone

“I’ll be waiting here just for you, just for you and September days, it feels like years away,” – Mike Delevante This graveled two-track road doesn’t appear on state highway maps. Its existence presents only a faint trace of straight stretches and rounded corners set into this ...

DNR weekly fishing report

Ontonagon River: The river saw relatively low angling effort over the past week. Walleye were reportedly caught in fair numbers by those trolling and jigging alike. River conditions and fishing activity were affected by recent rain showers. Ontonagon/Silver City/Union Bay: Ontonagon saw a ...

Outdoors North: Being present in the moments as they exist

“Time will tell just who has fell and who’s been left behind, when you go your way and I go mine,” – Bob Dylan There’s been a shift that I’ve noticed, a tilting of an axis somewhere that has slid the chessboard toward the edge of the table. The switch was borne of a fever dream ...

Column: Adventure dead ahead

MARQUETTE — As a born-and-raised Yooper, I think it’s only natural for me to feel an innate pull towards the water. The Upper Peninsula has no shortage of freshwater channels to traverse and refresh the soul, many of which invite locals and tourists alike to partake in a variety of ...

Deer hunter discovers rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. — A very rare and apparently very confused subtropical wood stork somehow found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin. A hunter scouting for deer first sighted the bird Sunday in a remote section of the Mud Lake Wildlife Area in Columbia County, about 35 miles northeast of ...