Howard Meyerson
After more than 30 years in the outdoor writing business, you would think I'd know better.
Monthly Archives: May 2012
It’s plastic baby: Imagine every day like this
Ever wonder where all those plastic bottles end up? A post on the Electric Treehouse Blog reports that of 31 billion bottles of water sold a year, only about 10% are recycled. That means that 27.9 billion plastic bottles end up … Continue reading
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Tagged Canoeing, Environment, Oceans, Paddling, Photos, Plastic Bottle, Recycling
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1,100-foot fall causes first death of season on McKinley
Mount McKinley, North America’s highest peak, claimed its first climber for the 2012 climbing season. The climber, as yet unidentified, fell 1,100 feet Friday after turning to retrieve a backpack that was sliding down a slope, Denali National Park officials … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Climbing, Climbing Accidents, Mountains, Mt. McKinley, National Park Service, National Parks
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Michigan’s lighthouses: State’s oldest to reopen
Fort Gratiot Light, the second-oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes, after Ohio’s Marblehead Light on Lake Erie, is being reopened today, the Detroit Free Press reports. About 1,000 people are expected at the public event at the mouth of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Fort Gratiot Light, Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair, Lighthouses
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73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest, breaks her own record
A feel good story if ever there was one. It gives this aging outdoor writer hope. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest’s 8,850-meter-high (29,035-foot-high) summit from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet on Saturday morning, the New York Daily News … Continue reading
Michigan adding rustic campgrounds to online reservation system
By Howard Meyerson Eighteen of Michigan’s more popular state forest campgrounds are being added to the state campground reservation system this season. That’s a first for the remote and rustic campgrounds that have always operated on a first-come, first-serve basis. … Continue reading
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Tagged Camping, DNR, Rustic Campgrounds, State Forest, State Parks
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Everest Expedition Calls Off Risky West Ridge Climb
Dry and windy conditions that transformed a normally snowy route into an icy one has forced a National Geographic team to call off their attempt to climb the rarely climbed West Ridge of Mount Everest. National Geographic reports today that … Continue reading
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Tagged Climbing, Mount Everest, Mountains, National Geographic, North Face
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One foot up: Army Bans Five Fingers Shoes
I tried them on at a store one time. I liked them, but I didn’t buy. It took too long to get my toes in place. But Five Fingers footwear has become the rage all across the country with runners … Continue reading
Wild Swine, the DNR and a Solution
Much has been said about Michigan’s feral swine problem in recent weeks, particularly now that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is enforcing a ban on those species that are considered an invasive species. Angry pig-hunt farm operators have alleged … Continue reading
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Tagged DNR, Environment, Feral Swine, Invasive Species, Michigan Land Use Institute, Pigs
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One Special Bird: The ruby-throated hummingbird
If I could pump my arms 55 times a second the way these birds flap their wings, I still wouldn’t be able to fly, let alone backwards. It’s amazing to think that they might fly 500 miles, non-stop over the … Continue reading
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Tagged Birds, Hummingbirds, Nature, Photos, Ruby-throated Hummingbird
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Pushback: UP brook trout proposal faces stiff opposition
By Howard Meyerson Marquette, Mich – State fisheries officials may be swimming upstream on the issue of brook trout regulations for the Upper Peninsula. A Michigan Department of Natural Resources proposal to double the daily creel limit from 5 fish … Continue reading
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