Recreation
Isle Royale trail guide gets digital makeover
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A longtime guide to trails on Michigan’s Isle Royale has been updated with downloadable maps and QR codes.
Hiking
Minong Ridge Trail: One tough trek
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The Minong Ridge trail on Isle Royale is “arguably the hardest hike in Michigan.”
Recreation
Trail segment installed at Sleeping Bear
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Environmental precautions taken when constructing the 27-mile-long route.
camping
As temperatures rise, Isle Royale native wildlife will fall
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Climate change can mean heat stroke for moose, restricted travel for wolves, fewer streams for hikers to quench their thirst and changing forests.
Recreation
Another 1,000 miles of adventure
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Battle Creek resident and Michigan native Loreen Nienwenhuis is in the middle of a third 1,000 miler within the Great Lakes basin.
Recreation
Starting a Great Lakes island trek – sneak preview
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Great Lakes Echo recently interviewed Loreen Niewenhuis in the middle of her third 1,000 mile hike. She’s the author of A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach and A 1,000-Mile Great Lakes Walk. Both chronicle her hiking adventures around the Great Lakes. This time she is hiking, biking and kayaking on islands in each of the five Great Lakes. Read about it here LINK. Her third book, tentatively titled A 1,000-mile Great Lakes Island Adventure, is scheduled to be released in June 2015.
Recreation
Hiker built writing career one step at a time
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Great Lakes Echo recently caught up with Jim DuFresne, author of numerous travel and outdoor guidebooks for Michigan and elsewhere.
Wildlife
Michigan offers hunting information on cell phone app
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Have any spring hunting plans in Michigan? Well, there’s an app for that. In 2010, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, launched the Mi-HUNT website,www.michigan.gov/mihunt, that allows hunters and outdoor lovers to view about 10 million acres of land available for hunting and other outdoor recreation. Now, just in time for the spring turkey hunting season, you can get the same information on your cell phone or tablet. It works directly with a device’s global positioning system, allowing users to view maps of 10 million acres of public and private land open for public hunting.
Recreation
State officials launch tourism initiative to promote trail network
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Information for all Michigan trails – including those on the water – would soon be available at the click of a button under legislation recently introduced by lawmakers.