30 years ago

June 21, 1995 — MARQUETTE- Carmen, a bear who enjoys foraging in the central Upper Peninsula forests, will don a new $7,000 GPS collar and will be tracked from space this summer. Michigan has between 6,000 and 10,000 bears, and Carmen will be the first globally tracked bear in the U.S. Department of Natural Resources researcher John Hendrickson, chief U.P. wildlife biologist, claims that bear tracking is difficult as they have a “wide” and “footloose” roaming pattern, which can cause trouble with counting and drafting hunting regulations for the species. The satellite readings will be recorded every two hours between July 1st and mid-October, the start of hibernation season.

90 years ago

ISHPEMING — John D. Voelker, Marquette county prosecuting attorney, will be attending sessions of the prosecuting attorney’s convention in Traverse City today, Friday, and Saturday. While taking part in discussions on scientific evidence in crime and suggesting reforms in procedure, Voelker will also be attending a banquet at which Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald and Malcolm Bingay, managing editor of the Detroit Free Press, are the principal speakers. Parm C. Gilbert, circuit judge of Traverse City, who attended the last meeting of the Upper Peninsula Law Enforcement Officers association in Negaunee, will speak on a juvenile probation camp. Sergeant Harold Mulbar, of the state police, will demonstrate the lie detector.