by Jim Maturen | Mar 29, 2018 | Turkey Tracks - March 2018
Winter had arrived over our 13 county chapter area. On January 8, 2018, we made our first purchase of 10,000 pounds of shelled corn. This is being written during the last portion of January. It has been an on again off again winter. What had been snow cover has melted...
by Jim Maturen | Mar 30, 2018 | Turkey Tracks - March 2018
In the fall of 2000, we became aware that the foreign-based Nestlé Corporation announced that they wanted to pump water from two springs in Osceola and Mecosta counties, in addition from wells they would establish. Little did I know that would be the beginning of the end.
by Jim Maturen | Mar 30, 2018 | Turkey Tracks - March 2018
The Baldwin-Luther Swamp is a large swamp complex in Lake County and is part of the Pere Marquette State Forest. It is a major winter deer yarding area. Sometime around the 1960s and 1970s area Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) wildlife biologists...
by John Gunnell | Mar 30, 2015 | Turkey Tracks - March 2018
This is the eighth article by John Gunnall that has appeared in Michigan Turkey Tracks. John is a retired school educator who has served as Superintendent of Schools for the Mattawan, Detour-Drummond Island, Crystal Falls, Hale and Banger school districts. Many others...
by Linda Gallagher | Mar 30, 2018 | Turkey Tracks - March 2018, Uncategorized
As we get through yet another northern Michigan winter, those of us still concerned about the welfare of the Eastern Wild Turkey in the cold and snowy north continue to do what we can to keep the birds going, most of that through our own pocketbooks, but also with the...