MARQUETTE — The conservation organization Wild Ones is has announced the release of nine professionally designed native garden plans free for the public to use. The designs are specific to different ecoregions of the country, including Minneapolis; Chicago; Milwaukee; Toledo; Chattanooga, ...

“I’m trying to rock while I can rock, I’m trying to roll while I can roll.” — Steve Forbert About this time each year, when the angle of the sun starts to get higher and higher into the sky, and the days start dropping hints of late winter and springtime around the bend, I start ...

Upper Peninsula Little Bay de Noc: Areas of heavy fishing pressure were between the first and center reef, out in front of Gladstone fishing pier and areas out of the Ford River. Saunders Point produced mostly undersized fish. Smaller numbers of anglers were fishing by the Escanaba River, ...

MARQUETTE — Trees, trout, teaching and trails. Those four words were the focus of the Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy’s annual meeting held Wednesday at the Ore Dock Brewing Co. in Marquette. Discussed were how these “four T’s” tie in with the UPLC’s proposed Dead River ...

“I’m heading for the blue horizon, where the mountains meet the sky.” — Aston “Deacon” Williams For me, time seems to have a strange, elastic quality to it. It stretches back and forth in my memory. Sometimes, the rubber band of time is slack, and recalling those very earliest ...

Upper Peninsula ≤ Little Bay de Noc: Catch rates for walleye were poor to fair. Anglers reported varying success, with many catching zero and even fewer with just a couple. Jigging rods were performing better than set rods. Multiple age classes were caught, as well as both large and ...