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Work to begin on snowmobile trail

HOUGHTON — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently advertised for bids to begin much-anticipated work on Snowmobile Trail U.P. No. 3 between Dollar Bay and Lake Linden. The trail was severely damaged during the Father’s Day Flood of June 2018. In all, six bid packages were advertised with an overall project total of 176 work sites. “Work will begin in spring 2023 and is expected to be finalized in fall 2023 to allow for the reopening of the trail for the snowmobile season,” said Matthew Torreano, a lands and easement analyst with the DNR’s Parks and ...

NMU student’s passion for outdoors nets scholarship

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University criminal justice major Jersey Hoover, who successfully harvested an 8-point buck with her bow over Thanksgiving weekend, has received a scholarship for her commitment to engaging new audiences and/or generations with Michigan’s natural resources and ...

Outdoors North

In the darkness of the room, I could see things I wouldn’t have spotted with the lights on. Components of the old heater, for example. I’d still have been able to hear it clicking and ticking as it heated up and cooled down, but I wouldn’t have been able to see the faded, red-orange ...

BIRDING shore to shore

MARQUETTE — A recent cooperative venture has resulted in an exciting new opportunity for birdwatchers in the eastern Upper Peninsula. With the help of several partners, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has developed the Shore-to-Shore Birding Trail, which is a ...

Outdoors North

As she climbed up into the passenger seat of my Jeep, her relative frailty was obvious, but not unexpected. My mother was now 87 years old, and it had been about a decade since I had seen her last. When she and my dad divorced in the early 1970s, she moved north across Lake Superior, taking ...

Outdoors North; Making the coming home worthwhile

“Living in a bubble, in and out of time, I stick my head out every once in a while,” – Gary Louris With an understated thud, the storm door shut behind me. What it closed off with its glass and aluminum structure was the warmth and glow of our comfortable, suburban home at the edge of ...