MARQUETTE — Pixie foam lichen, blue toadflax, eastern prickly pear cactus — they’ve all been part of Ryne Rutherford’s world lately. And it’s a world most people don’t get to see. Rutherford is ecologist and owner of Biophilia, LLC, and a doctoral student at Michigan Tech. ...
LANSING — In his nearly 40 years as a professional fisheries biologist — 35 of those with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources — Gary Whelan has touched and influenced fisheries management in many and long-lasting ways. Because of that body of work, the Association of Fish & ...
Out in the wind today, I heard November knocking on the door with a tap of her fingernails at first and then with a louder bang that pounding of a little, clenched fist. Impetuous, wild and unpredictable as she is, I told her she would have to wait until her time had come. This was still the ...
“And then right on time you came and changed the game,” — Marshall Crenshaw Waking up, having once again fallen asleep on the couch watching television into the early morning hours, I sat pulling my mind together hoping to wrap it around some thoughts or at least something I could ...
MARQUETTE — The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at Northern Michigan University is featuring an exhibition titled “Above/Under the Surface: The Fisheries of the Upper Great Lakes” through December in its Gries Hall gallery. The exhibition looks at the changes that have taken place in ...
“There was a cold wind blowing on the night we met, the leaves fell from the trees, you made a lot of promises I ain’t seen yet, I ain’t gonna ask you please,” – Dave Alvin The afternoon was the blustery sort, with the wind whipping the tree limbs on the maple trees around in ...
