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Friday: Outdoors

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 a.m. ...

DNR weekly fishing report

Ontonagon River: Angling efforts on the river were very low over the past week. Angler reports included catches of northern pike and walleye in low numbers. The floating docks in the Ontonagon Marina were removed from the river for the season. The fish cleaning station at the Ontonagon Marina ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outdoors North: In the season of change

“Scarecrow on a wooden cross, blackbird in the barn,” — John Mellencamp The first sound I heard after I slipped outside the back door that morning was the croaking squawk of an old raven. He sounded upset about the cold and the snow. I couldn’t blame him. It wasn’t even ...