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Outdoors

Nighttime viewing enhanced by location

“Diamond sky, oh, tell me the truth, will there be any real satisfaction. Diamond sky, oh well, tell me the truth, are my wheels spinning closer to traction.” — Steve Forbert I count myself among those in a longstanding tradition who have looked to the skies to marvel at all there is ...

Learning to fly fish

Copper Harbor — On Tuesday evening, the Calumet-Keweenaw Sportsmen’s Club and Keweenaw National Historical Park hosted their last joint fishing event of the year at Fort Wilkins Historic State Park. Fishing Discovery: Fly Tying and Fly Fishing was put together to introduce knowledge ...

Every local beach offers something special

The Copper Country beaches have been popular with locals and tourists alike; out and about soaking in our phenomenal recent sunny weather. The area’s beaches all around have been well visited, and nothing can compare to these local beaches. Warm water, fresh clean air and soft beach sand. ...

‘Women deserve a day’: Net’n Yet wins fishing tournament

On Saturday, the Finns Bar and Grill hosted the 7th Annual Women’s Fishing Tournament. The event saw 12 boats occupied by 34 women competing for the heaviest load of five lake trout. The tournament had a difficult start for the women with the conditions of the qualifying Superior waters of ...

The beauty of finding the cure in nature

“Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing.” — Pete Seeger In a shadowy and clipped scene that continues to fade with age in my memory, I recall our line of middle-schoolers marching up the sidewalk single file. We had left the big and protective confines of the brick and ...

Meet Michigan’s beach cleaning robot

Michigan has a new helper dedicated to keeping our beaches clean—a roving robot. Thanks to this new technology, named “BeBot,” trash like cigarette butts, food wrappers and plastic will be less common on inland lake beaches and Great Lakes Shorelines. BeBot was developed by Niteko ...