Monthly Archives: October 2016

Michigan Offers Great Grouse Program

 Here’s another wonderful wildlife program in Michigan, called to my attention by Ed Meadows, who served for a time as Commissioner of Maine’s Department of Conservation before moving to Michigan where he served as the Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, which includes fish and wildlife programs. Here’s the story, as presented […]

Oh, the hunting mistakes I’ve made!

When I started to build a list of all the mistakes I’ve made while hunting, well, it turns out I made a lot more mistakes than I remembered! I guess that’s the trail we take to become successful hunters. For me, the trail was long and sometimes frustrating. I started off on the wrong foot, […]

Michigan funds deer habitat improvements on private lands

I have to thank a friend of Maine’s outdoors for sharing this story.  Ed Meadows served for a time as Commissioner of Maine’s Department of Conservation before moving to Michigan where he served as the Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, which includes fish and wildlife programs. Ed’s back in Maine and […]

One Ground Scrape, Three Deer

This is one of my favorite deer hunting stories. It’ll be in my book of hunting and fishing stories, published next year by North Country Press.                I love to hunt ground scrapes that bucks use to mark their territory. Across Route 41 from my house, I found a line of scrapes one season made […]