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Friday: Outdoors

Outdoors North – classic

As the metal storm door clicked shut behind me, I almost immediately sensed the mildness of the air meeting my face, warm for a late autumn’s evening. The wind was dead or at least fast asleep. Soft glowing light shone through the windows of the living room, diffused by curtains that hung ...

What’s Flying: Birds aplenty at the Lower Harbor pier

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessing that continue to surround us.” . ” — James E. Faust Plenty of birds in the Lower Harbor in Marquette have made the new pier a blessing to birders. There has been a wide variety of waterfowl from ducks to grebes. The new pier ...

Chronic wasting disease found in new county

LANSING — A deer with chronic wasting disease has been found in Ogemaw County — a county that had never seen the disease before. And that worries the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Showing zombielike symptoms, the deer was in its final stages of the sickness: drooling, skinny ...

Outdoors North

With the spirit of thanksgiving blowing across the landscape this week, pushed by a cold Canadian wind, I was reminded recently of something I have been truly thankful for over many years, though it’s not something I think about in detail too often. My recollections began when talking with ...

Research shows humans alter wolf-deer relationships

MARQUETTE — New research from the Voyageurs Wolf Project in northern Minnesota — a collaborative team that includes a Northern Michigan University professor and two alumni — sheds light on how humans are having a profound impact on wolf-deer relationships by altering forest ...

Outdoors North

The early morning sky was painted across the horizon line with a soft shade of orange I’d seen in push-up sherbet confections or the bands along the lower sides of autumn brook trout. Above the band of orange was a layer of almost white, trending to light blue and then darkening ...