Outdoors
Applications, outings, free fishing on calendar
IRON MOUNTAIN — Michigan’s spring turkey hunt application period is open through Feb. 1. Applications are $5 and are available online, at a license agent, or in the Michigan DNR Hunt Fish app. The number of units has been reduced from 14 to 3. The units are M (Upper Peninsula), NN ...
Michigan deserves its title as ‘The Trails State’
Single-track. Switchback. Rail trail. Off-road. Backcountry. Water. Equestrian. Multi-use. Looped. Out-and-back. Smooth and paved. Hear these different kinds of trails and pathways, and a favorite type likely comes to mind – it does for me, a longtime, passionate trail explorer. Well, ...
Pure Michigan applications due; Wisconsin harvests elk
IRON MOUNTAIN — Wednesday is the last day to submit a Pure Michigan Hunt application before the January drawing. Winners receive a valuable outdoor prize package as well as licenses for elk, bear, spring and fall turkey, antlerless deer, and the first pick at a managed waterfowl hunt area. ...
Outdoors report: Snow needed for trails; writers, artists invited to ‘Porkies’
IRON MOUNTAIN — Snowmobile trails in Vilas County, Wis., opened Friday with conditions reported as poor to fair, while some trails were described as “rideable” in the Upper Peninsula’s Iron County. To the north, trails in the Munising area were reported as good to very good, according ...





