By IAN MCCULLOUGH NMU Student Writer MARQUETTE — Standing 75 yards away from two Alaskan brown bears playing in a river, Northern Michigan University biology graduate teaching assistant Rylee Jensen was able to snap an award-winning photo while she was working at Brooks Camp in Katmai ...
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” - Mark Caine The firsts are arriving. The explorers, the pioneers, the early settlers of the migrants are beginning to show up, despite snowstorms, tornadoes, and harsh weather all across the central U.S. How intriguing it would be to interview the first grebes, ducks, turkey vultures and other early migrants arriving on this still very white landscape and ask them about the forces, the thoughts, and the urges they felt to get here first. Getting here first ...
Little Bay de Noc: Anglers reported good walleye fishing until the close of the season. Most anglers out of Kipling were fishing deep water reefs. Anglers reported mixed results using minnows and wigglers. Keweenaw Bay: Anglers had a difficult time getting on Lake Superior this week with warming temperatures and high winds. A few anglers were able to get on the ice early on and found mostly coho, lake trout and lake whitefish. Most fish that were caught were found below 50 feet of water, however a few were still caught in shallow waters. Lake herring and smelt were also part of the ...
“Oh, the water, let it run all over me, and it stoned me to my soul,” — Van Morrison There’s a traditional ritual I go through about this time each year. In between the first day of spring and the last Saturday in April opening day of trout season, I go through my tackle bag to ...
ESCANABA — On a frozen and snow-covered marsh in Delta County, electrical workers move a specialized pole into place, firmly in the ground, allowing it to stand. At the top of the 30-foot pole, a square, metal platform has been fashioned with matching attached arms at the corners that ...
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs, kick my legs to crash it off, say ‘Ok, I’ve had enough, what else can you show me,’” – Bob Dylan I arrived at the window feeling kind of ambivalent about the scene I expected to see. I knew there would be more than a foot of snow still covering ...
