Howard Meyerson
After more than 30 years in the outdoor writing business, you would think I'd know better.
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Climate Change: Butterflies, game birds and game animals threatened
By Howard Meyerson We hear a lot about the effects of climate change these days. Polar ice caps are melting. Polar bears are threatened as a result. The Minnesota Star Tribune recently published an extensive report on how it will … Continue reading
Sportman’s 20 year opening day tradition: hunting for muskie, not deer
By Howard Meyerson When Michigan’s firearm deer season opened last month and thousands of hunters took to the fields with their rifles and shotguns, Will Schultz went out with a different quarry in mind. The Grand Rapids sportsman planned to … Continue reading
Year 2: Lake Huron Atlantic salmon program underway
By Howard Meyerson GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Atlantic salmon will again be stocked at four Lake Huron locations in 2014. State officials are gearing up for the second round in a five-year experiment to … Continue reading
Salmon Limit: Five fish a day in ’14
By Howard Meyerson GRAND HAVEN, MI – Salmon anglers can look forward keeping five per day again in 2014. That’s what Michigan DNR fisheries managers have concluded after reviewing 2013 catch rates and angler … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservation, DNR, Fishing, Lake Michigan, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Salmon
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Michigan mountain biker takes on the toughest race in the world
By Howard Meyerson Dennis Murphy hit a tree while riding his mountain bike back in August of 2000. He was racing at Big M in the Manistee National Forest. Murphy wasn’t watching closely and crushed a vertebrae in his back. … Continue reading
Scott Hickman: Man about Alger County
By Howard Meyerson Scott Hickman admits to being a rare bird enthusiast, someone who enjoys looking for the unusual find. Rare, of course, is a relative term. For the 62-year-old retired college biology professor and member of Laughing Whitefish Audubon … Continue reading
Food from the field: New women hunters take a shot at pheasant hunting
By Howard Meyerson BELDING, MI — Trish Taylor had inkling that hunting would be fun. Her husband hunts. They share a bird dog too. So, when the opportunity arose, the 35-year-old public relations specialist from Allegan decided to pull the … Continue reading
Gear Review: Solo Wood Stove |
Backpacking stoves are one of my favorite pieces of gear. I have to confess to owning many, going back far too many years. But this simple approach to cooking, using nothing but twigs, has a lot of appeal. Philip Werner … Continue reading
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Tagged Backpacking, Gear Review, Going Light, Hiking, Stoves, Ultralight Backpacking
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2013 Deer Season: Hunting author critical of new antler restrictions
By Howard Meyerson I took some time off recently to sit back with Richard P. Smith’s newest book, “Great Michigan Deer Tales, Book 6.” Firearm deer season opens Nov. 15 and I was interested to see who he had written … Continue reading
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