It’s 8:26 a.m. Five minutes to go. Five minutes before autumn arrives on this 22nd day of the month. I reach a crossing road on this woodland …
GARRISON, Minn. — Netting and releasing yet another fish, Jeff Lane was about to close the book on his 2020 smallmouth bass season on sprawlin…
Collared deer legal to harvest
A few weeks ago I explored and wrote about a segment of the North Country National Scenic Trail in Bayfield County, which ended at a trail int…
On the shores of Lake Superior, next to Chequamegon Bay, I was not the only camper with a camera. Half a dozen folks were being pulled to the …
A few weeks ago I wrote about blue jays and how they get a bad rap, which got me thinking about other “nuisance birds” and unpopular feeder vi…
The sun shouldered its way over the eastern horizon and soon found a portal in the pine boughs through which to shoot a ray my way. In my morn…
September has arrived, and at this northern latitude both people and wildlife already are starting to prepare for winter.
Following a path from above the pine grove, a moonbeam is squeezing past the highbush cranberry shrub tonight to ply its light on my pillow. I…
HAYWARD — Larry Mann summed up the event at the start:
September is calling, promising pumpkins and fields of goldenrod, butternuts and acorns, red sumac and yellow maples, the first frost and the …
Last week I wrote about visiting the Porcupine Lake Wilderness in Bayfield County and how a highlight of this trip was hanging out for a few d…
Last summer around this time, I wrote about hiking a section of the North Country National Scenic Trail through the Porcupine Lake Wilderness …
Our little dog Max has been gone for more than two months now, leaving us but joining his brother Smokey, who left us three years ago. It’s a …
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Deadline nears for some hunters
Mid-August has arrived, that pause-button time of summer when all the busy activity of the breeding season has wound down but the first change…
Summer evenings fall softly now, though more swiftly as sunsets ebb backward by a minute or two a day. It’s quiet before the sunset, now retre…
Hunt Hill nature programs scheduled
I sometimes find it hard warming up to August though it has no problem warming up to me. But I’m changing my mind about the month that starts …
Pretty much everyone who lives or vacations in the northern parts of the Midwest or New England is familiar with the otherworldly call of the …
Last week I wrote about the rich variety of birds that are coming and going around my neighborhood, most of them in an area as small as 10 acr…
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There are certain things that make up north feel like Up North to me: the call of a loon, birch trees, little kettle lakes tucked back in the …
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