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Outdoors

Eastern phoebes suddenly go missing

This photo was supposed to celebrate a second successful nesting this year by our resident eastern phoebes at Six Mile Lake. I’d watched over the past weeks as beaks began to poke out the sides of the nest their parents have had for years above the light on my mom’s quilting shop. Each ...

DNR details UP deer rules for 2024

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources provided an update this week on deer hunting regulations that take effect this fall in the Upper Peninsula, after actions taken July 11 by the Natural Resources Commission. The full package includes changes that won’t begin ...

Make way, chipmunks, for the new squirrel in town

Is this the next squirrel species to establish itself in the northwoods? This is a young 13-lined ground squirrel. It wasn’t willing to show its back, which is streaked with stripes and lines of spots, hence the name. It hung around the front door for awhile Saturday, then moved on and ...

Michigan Natural Resources Commission adjusts deer rules

IRON MOUNTAIN — A few changes have been made in deer hunting rules for the Upper Peninsula. As reported Friday by MLive, antlerless harvest quotas will be reduced in the “mid-snowfall zone,” a band crossing the middle latitudes of the U.P. The Michigan Natural Resources Commission on ...

Wisconsin survey shows an increase in drumming grouse

MADISON, Wis. — A survey measuring ruffed grouse drumming activity heard along roadsides throughout Wisconsin this spring showed a 57% increase in statewide drumming activity compared to 2023, the Department of Natural Resources said. Several agencies and groups, including the DNR, U.S. ...