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Friday: Outdoors

Protect your oak trees — prune before spring

Trees across Michigan are just wrapping up an incredible show of fall color, with the reds, oranges and yellows of oak trees often taking center stage. That annual autumn color fest may be at risk, though, because oak trees across areas of the Lower Peninsula, as well as in Dickinson, Iron, ...

Outdoors North: Deer season brings fond memories of dad

“Now they’ll always be together, in their happy hunting ground,” — J.P. Richardson In the years that I was growing up, my dad had already quit hunting deer and rabbits. He said he used to hunt both when he was younger, but that was before I knew him. I was acquainted with his ...

DNR weekly fishing report – Upper Peninsula

Little Bay de Noc: Yellow perch anglers reported good fishing. Fish were caught by anglers anchored or “spot-locked” using minnows on perch rigs across from Kipling, in the narrows, and by the Days River. Walleye anglers reported mixed results, with some having success while others ...

DNR seeks to fill upcoming vacancies on U.P. Citizens’ Advisory councils

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is soliciting applications for open volunteer positions on the Eastern and Western Upper Peninsula Citizens’ Advisory Councils. The councils are designed to advise the DNR on regional programs and policies, identify areas in which the department ...

Outdoors North: Changing of the seasonal guard

“Either get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards,” — Bob Dylan The warm afternoon sun lit up a clearing before me as I approached a place in the background of this seemingly summery scene – an impression belied by the height of ...

Communities reimagine how to use cemetery spaces

MARQUETTE — Cemeteries are providing new services to encourage community involvement, rethink burial practices and double as places that promote knowledge of local history and outdoor recreation. Onelee Zartmen, a representative of Ridgeview Memorial Gardens in Grandville, the only ...