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30 years ago

MARQUETTE — Peninsula Waters Girl Scout Council held many summer events throughout the region. Hundreds of scouts participated in events such as Weekend in the Woods, held at Camp Powlow, near Gwinn; a three-day bus trip to the Chicago Science and Industry Museum, and then Great America; two weeks of horse camp near Manistique. A series of camps at Clear Lake, near Shingleton, included the first-ever Dad’n’Me Camporee, a weekend for girl scouts and their fathers; Mom’n’Me, time for girl scouts and their moms to get away; troop camp with a core staff; and two weeks of resident camp put on by the Peninsula Waters.

60 years ago

ALGER COUNTY — If it’s news when a man bites a dog, it’s certainly news when a deer kills a coyote-even a small coyote. Ellsworth Harger, Munising, biologist at the Cusino Wildlife Experimental Station, and Conservation Officer Bruce Andrews, Munising, uncovered that kind of news story the other day when they were driving along a woods trail toward Trapper’s Lake in the Beaver Basin area of Alger County. They discovered the carcass of a small coyote lying in the road and stopped their car to investigate. It appeared that the coyote had been freshly killed, probably some time during the previous night. Looking about in the dirt road, Harger and Andrews found tracks of another, larger coyote, along with tracks of a deer. There also were signs of a scuffle involving the three animals. The two men examined the coyote carcass more closely and found a large blood stain on its chest and neck, indicating that it had been killed by a blow from the deer’s hooves that either broke its neck or severed a main artery, causing the coyote to bleed to death. Having dispatched the smaller coyote, the deer apparently eluded the other coyote (probably the younger one’s mother) and escaped unharmed.