“Thirty thousand feet below me you were fast asleep and thirty thousand feet above I almost stopped to weep,” - Tom. T. Hall Flying over the landscape, it was dark and cold, with vast expanses of snow accumulation visible occasionally in the blackness below. Miles and miles of ...
Little Bay de Noc: Walleye fishing was good. Anglers reported success when trolling or drifting crawler harnesses. Primary areas of focus for walleye anglers included south of Gladstone, out of the Ford River, as well as near the mouth of the Whitefish River. Additionally, some anglers had success at the first reef. Smallmouth anglers reported good fishing when casting soft plastics or crank baits. Perch anglers had mixed results fishing the upper portion of the bay. Manistique: Steelhead anglers reported a slight decline in success, but there were still some fish in the river. Walleye ...
NEWBERRY— Michigan’s fire season starts in early spring, when leaves and grasses remain dry from fall and winter and trees are not yet green. In fire danger terms, the spring of 2012 was almost a perfect storm, Keith Magnusson remembers, with a mild, dry winter and a March with daytime temperatures in the 60s and 70s. “All of the marshes that historically have water in them were dry that year, just to set the stage,” said Magnusson, manager of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ forest management unit in Newberry. By the middle of May, fire crews were battling ...
MARQUETTE — Before he goes out in the “real world” with a job and the responsibility that comes with it, new Northern Michigan University graduate Jacob Golab is setting out on an ambitious hiking experience: traveling the Upper Peninsula segment of the North Country National Scenic Trail. The U.P. represents only a portion of the entire trail, which is the longest in the National Trails System. The trail stretches 4,800 miles across eight states, from Vermont to North Dakota. Golab, who graduated with a degree in construction management, started his trip on May 9 by the Copper ...
“They’re OK the last days of May” — Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser With the chokecherry trees, spring beauties and wild strawberries in bloom, May has come and almost gone — already. In a frenetic whirl, out of the gasping death throes of winter, she ushered home the robins to ...
Upper Peninsula Little Bay de Noc: Walleye anglers reported fair to good fishing success. Anglers were having results with a variety of tactics, including casting jerk baits or jigs, as well as trolling. The mouths of the Escanaba and Whitefish rivers were the primary focus areas for many ...
