A good year for deer?
Brett Hillstrom, 19, of Hancock displays his 2009 successful deer hunter’s patch. (DMG photo by Brandon Veale)
BARAGA — A convergence of negative factors has driven down success rates in the first week of the 2009 firearm deer season, but some hunters still had deer to check and stories to tell Thursday. Weather, both over the long and short term, has been a major factor in reports of declining takes throughout the U.P. Two harsh winters in a row have hurt fawn production, so hunters’ selection was already weak to begin with in many areas. Also, unusually fair weather for mid-November has cut the herd’s motivation to move around. “If you get all the moons aligned, it’s just not advantageous this year,” Bill Scullon, a DNR wildlife biologist in the Baraga office, said. He said that in warm conditions like this week, many deer will bed down to avoid predators and because they don’t need as much food since they aren’t burning as many calories in an effort to stay warm.
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“Now that’s what I call inviting,” smiled Sarah Palinen as we approached Camp Coronary on the north shore of Lake Med. “Make that irresistibly inviting,” she added, operating the tap like a pro.
She was right.
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There’s a mass migration going on in the U.P. and it has nothing to do with Catholic church services.
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A recent WW&W Opinion Dynamics Poll among non-hunting wives of hunters, about to become deer camp widows once again, revealed that wives just don't understand why their husbands have to "go camp" every chance they get these days when the season...
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That's not a typo. For you alert proofreaders, it's a play on words; like going off on a tangent or rant, but in a good way.
It's also a theory, of which I have many.
Return of the rally
HOUGHTON — The pack of racers converging on the Copper Country are ready to expect anything in this year’s Lake Superior Performance Rally, which begins this afternoon in Houghto.
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