Patience for Spring Panfish

Patience for Spring Panfish

It’s hard to be patient for spring panfish By Steve Griffin We haunt Saginaw Bay cuts and Lake Michigan drowned-river-mouth lakes several cold weeks before perch, those striped heralds of spring, arrive. Snow squalls sometimes mock our optimism. We slip and slide on...
Growing Youth Turkey Hunters

Growing Youth Turkey Hunters

Without mentors engaging youth turkey hunters and teaching them about conservation, no one will If you’re like me, the spring turkey woods bring a welcome relief from a long winter. Each spring, I try to wring as much as possible out of my favorite season...
Q&A with Michigan’s top wolf biologist

Q&A with Michigan’s top wolf biologist

By Editorial Staff Cody Norton is the large carnivore specialist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Norton lives with his wife and children in the Upper Peninsula and is an avid deer, bear, furbearer, and small game hunter, houndsman, and trapper. Q:...
75 Years

75 Years

Michigan Out-of-Doors: A magazine with a mission since 1947 By Chris Lamphere Just ask anyone who’s paid attention to the evolution of Michigan Out-of-Doors magazine over the last 75 years. They likely could rattle off a list of assets that have contributed to...