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Outdoors North: John Pepin

“It was a night, oh what a night, it really was such a night,” – Lincoln Chase We sat together waiting for our food in the country-styled roadside restaurant – one we’d known since we were both kids. It hadn’t changed much at all – decent food, friendly staff, bathrooms down the hall. Cars blew past in both directions on the highway while we sat contented in this quiet refuge from the noise and bustle of a regular late Wednesday afternoon. It was me and my younger brother, Jimmy. The only customers there, we got up to look at the historic pictures on the wall – a ...

Paddles up!

Lac La Belle – A partnership that started in 2022 between the Keweenaw Outdoor Recreation Coalition (KORC), the Calumet Keweenaw Sportsmen’s Club (CKSC), and the Keweenaw County Road Commission (KCRC) has completed a project bringing a new canoe and kayak launch at the Lac La Belle ...

Counting turkeys

LANSING — Maintaining a health turkey population requires continued monitoring, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says. To accomplish this, the DNR is asking the public to participate in its wild turkey brood survey. The annual survey began July 1 and ends Aug.31 Adam Bump, ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

“When she’s walking by the river or the railway line, she can still hear him whisper, ‘Let’s go down to the waterline,’” – Mark Knopfler It’s a warm, summery day today – just like so many I remember from years ago. When I was a kid, there was a place my parents used to take ...

Talkin’ turkey

LANSING — If you spot a hen turkey leading a line of poults (baby turkeys) this summer, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources wants to hear from you. It's time for Michigan's wild turkey brood survey: a community science effort that helps wildlife biologists understand how well ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

“Takes rocks and gravel, baby, to make a solid road, make a solid road,” – Bob Dylan Growing up in a turn-of-the-20th century mining company house, within sight of a hematite mine that had been in operation for nearly a hundred years before I was born, I think I always felt that the red ...