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Outdoors

Column: The world was small, but big to us

MARQUETTE — “It’s a million miles to the city from the hills and valleys we know; it’s a million miles to the city and someday we all want to go,” – Tom T. Hall When I was a little kid, the world we knew was small, but it was big to us. We seemed to have everything around us ...

Youth hunt success

Courtesy photo Nathan Polley, age 7, of Gladstone got his first buck September 11 at 7:25 a.m. He bagged the 8 point buck at his family’s camp in Iron County.

Father and son bag bears for first time

Courtesy photo Roger Tourangeau Jr. shot his bear recently from 50 yards away. The bear weighed 258 pounds dressed. His son, Roger Tourangeau III, above photo, shot his first bear with a bow from 20 yards away. The bear weighed 110 pounds dressed.

Father and son bag bears for first time

Roger Tourangeau Jr., above photo, shot his bear recently from 50 yards away. The bear weighed 258 pounds dressed. His son, Roger Tourangeau III shot his first bear with a bow from 20 yards away. The bear weighed 110 pounds dressed.

DNR cancels winter Becoming an Outdoors Woman workshop

MARQUETTE — Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its associated necessary limits on social gatherings, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has canceled the annual winter Becoming an Outdoors Woman workshop. The annual weekend event is held in February at the Bay Cliff Health ...

Column: Wrapped up in the U.P.’s wintry blanket

By John Pepin Michigan DNR MARQUETTE — “On a snow-covered night up in eastern Wyoming, another lazy day, looking for the sun,” – John Denver In the place where I want to be right now, the snow is falling so softly that I can’t hear it, no matter how hard I might try. The ...