Outdoors
Not everyone believes that the outdoors are just about hunting and fishing. And hey, it's a free country so they have the right to be wrong. But we digress. Sometimes the outdoors experience is a lazy canoe ride or a walk through the spring woods looking for morel mushrooms. And we would never dream of taking that away from anyone.
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U.P. cougar makes another trail-cam appearance
September 27, 2011 by www.greatnorthernoutdoors.net
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources today confirmed the presence of a cougar in northern
Bears keep showing up in unlikely places
June 15, 2011 by Dave Spratt
Bear sightings have become increasingly common in more suburban and agricultural areas across the Great Lakes. In the past several years road-killed bears have been reported in Toledo, Ohio and Flint, Michigan; in 2008 a police officer shot one in southern Michigan's Battle Creek. Similar stories have come from the southern parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ontario and even Iowa.
Fall is the time to get your boat ready for spring
October 1, 2010 by Dave Spratt
Spring boat preparation should consist of three steps: hook up the battery, add fuel and turn the key. But that means you need to take care of the harder stuff now. Don't wait until spring, when the boat shops are jammed with folks who didn't.
Oh, Canada: So beautiful, so close
July 1, 2010 by Dave Spratt
Think about the Pacific Coast Highway or maybe the shores of Maine, those spectacularly rare places where rock cliffs stand tall over the water and rock outcroppings tumble majestically to the sea. Now think about the places where a Midwesterner can get in a day of driving. It may be hard to believe, but those two -- spectacular coastline and the Midwest -- are not mutually exclusive. If you can make it to the northern shore of Lake Superior, you'll see what I mean.