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Friday: Outdoors

‘Heaviest animal ever’ found

NEW YORK (AP) — There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live. While today’s blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an ancient giant that could tip the scales. Researchers described the species — named Perucetus colossus, or “the ...

Outdoors North: Called by a desolate forest path

“Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River,” – John Fogerty It wasn’t one of the “dog days” of summer, it was one of those “dog is under the porch because it’s too darned hot to be anywhere else” days. I was sitting at a desolate junction. It was a place where the ...

Energy savings the goal of SWP solar program

MARQUETTE — The Superior Watershed Partnership Energy and Climate Office has announced the 25th low-income family solar project completed in the Upper Peninsula since the program began in 2019. This latest project is also the first SWP low-income solar project completed in the city of ...

Outdoors North

In this part of the world, along this secluded riverbank under a canopy of mixed firs, spruces and hardwoods, there are no doubt countless times of peace, stillness and resounding quiet. But this, was not one of them. The skies poured down a tremendous amount of rain in a short period of ...

Superiorland gone fishin’

Little Bay de Noc: Walleye anglers reported fair to good fishing at black bottom, as well as the Escanaba River. Trolling crawler harnesses along the bottom produced good eater-sized walleye. A few perch were harvested. Big Bay de Noc: Smallmouth bass fishing improved. Drop shot rigs and tube ...

Summer in the U.P.

“ Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” - John Lubbock This week may have been what many Upper Peninsula residents have been waiting for – summer. ...