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Your latest prescription is to get outside

MADISON, Wis. — Find a shady spot under a tree, take a breath of fresh air and call me in the morning. Health care providers have long suggested stressed-out patients spend time outdoors. Now hundreds of providers are going a step further and issuing formal prescriptions to get outside. ...

Outdoors North: Craving peace and silence

“Here we stand upon the bridge, time is passing by. Time to tread the road ahead, time to say goodbye,” – Steve Gibbons Elbows, hooks, corners, turns, bends — all good names for those places in rivers and creeks where the direction of the water flow changes. These corners are ...

What’s Flying: Precious sunset filled afternoons ahead

“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night this a beautiful way.” - E.E. Cummings Sunday morning will see Daylight Savings Time come to an end for another year in the Upper Peninsula. That morning sunrise will be at 7:33 ...

DNR weekly fishing report

Ontonagon River: The river saw very little angling activity over the past week. The floating docks in the Ontonagon Marina had been removed from the river for the season, and the fish cleaning station at the marina was closed for the season. Ontonagon/Silver City/Union Bay: Angling efforts ...

Outdoors North: Autumn’s curtain is tearing away

“Summertime and the living is easy, fishing are jumping and the cotton is high,” – Dubose Heyward, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Over the past few days, autumn has begun to unfurl its final vestiges of colors and kick before its tattered curtain is torn away, and November comes down ...

Transplanting shrubs: Timing and technique for a thriving garden

It's the end of the gardening season, and those of us who've endured a less-than-perfect layout may be itching to move shrubs around. But proper timing is imperative. I inadvertently planted a Clethra bush too close to a peach tree, and their intertwining branches have been taunting me all ...