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Outdoors

Eat Safe Fish

LANSING – The Great Lakes PFAS Action Network (GLPAN) has announced the launch of a new interactive online mapping tool that allows Michiganders to easily search for bodies of water that have health and consumption warnings for PFOS (a type of PFAS) in fish. Developed in collaboration with ...

A Fuzzy Threat

HOUGHTON — The excitement of snow and the holidays is upon us. Enjoy the holidays while protecting our beloved forests from balsam woolly adelgid (BWA; Adelges piceae). The BWA is an invasive insect that was discovered in Missaukee and Clare Counties, MI, in the northern lower peninsula in ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

“Well, I grew up wild and free, walking these fields in my bare feet. There wasn’t no place I couldn’t go with a .22 rifle and a fishing pole,” – Bob McDill Growing up in an iron-ore mining town put us kids in close contact with some of the coolest things, especially for boys. ...

In brief

AHMEEK — The Calumet Keweenaw Sportsmen's Club will hold its December membership meeting and annual raffle drawing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Ahmeek Fire Hall, 13 Vivian Street, Ahmeek, Michigan. The meeting will begin with a period of social interaction and a meal. Following the meal and ...

Storms keep snowmobile trails impassable in western UP

ONTONAGON — Storms that hit the Upper Peninsula over the past week have left snowmobile trails impassable across portions of six U.P. counties, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. “Some snowmobile clubs are out clearing trails, others are continuing to assess the ...

Trees for troops

MASON – This week, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) joined the Michigan Christmas Tree Association for a Trees for Troops event at Tannenbaum Farms. Employees from MDARD and the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) who ...