“Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug,” – Mark Knopfler On a balmy autumn afternoon that more recalled days of June or July, along a delightful stretch of river that spoke and giggled as it rolled, I encountered a unique forest specimen the likes of which I ...

MARQUETTE — Many anglers say fall fishing for splake on Lake Superior is an experience unparalleled anywhere else in Michigan. When temperatures begin to drop and leaves start to turn, the splake bite picks up as the fish move nearshore. Splake — a hybrid cross between lake trout and ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources plans to open its long-awaited $2 million public shooting range in Marquette County Oct. 11. “The builders are still putting finishing touches on the facility and the shooting range remains closed until Oct. 11,” said John Pepin, DNR deputy ...

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — More than 269 tons of fish, eight different species, plus one hybrid, and a total of 9,335,410 individual fish add up to successful spring and summer stocking efforts by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and some great fall fishing for ...

MARQUETTE — What better way to get a bird’s-eye view of an osprey nest than to use a drone — especially when it doesn’t bother the birds? Hunter Wade of Negaunee, who is the September/October Guest Artist at Zero Degrees Gallery in Marquette and recently winner of the “Best New ...

In the mists of an early morning, the thought occurs to me out here amid the desolate quiet that soaks into everything like varnish, that this is the season of stragglers. The beautiful butterflies of orange, yellow and burnt orange have all flown, so have the black-throated blue warblers and ...