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by treeplanter
Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:28 pm
Forum: Pictures
Topic: Snowshoe Tracks????
Replies: 9
Views: 6928

Re: Snowshoe Tracks????

Lot more activity today, February 1st. Look like ski-tracks along the bottom edge of the photo.

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by treeplanter
Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:32 am
Forum: Pictures
Topic: Snowshoe Tracks????
Replies: 9
Views: 6928

Snowshoe Tracks????

I just noticed what appear to be snowshoe tracks up on the Greenstone. I was wondering if the winter study had begun, so I guess it has. Or am I looking at something else? Thoughts?

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by treeplanter
Mon Sep 09, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: Trails & Campsites
Topic: Amygdaloid Island
Replies: 2
Views: 10291

Re: Amygdaloid Island

I haven't been to Amygdaloid Island since 1995. Then, and now, there is no formal trail system on the island, but you can bushwack. There is a prominent ridge on the island, that is very obvious on an aerial photo, that you can use for hiking. It's slow going, and you need to good footwear, but it ...
by treeplanter
Fri Aug 23, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Trails & Campsites
Topic: Large Clearing At McCargoe Cove
Replies: 7
Views: 6741

Re: Large Clearing At McCargoe Cove

Just looked at their management plan, and the area surrounding the McCargoe campground is designated "non-wilderness", so clearings such as this are allowed. I'll be curious as to what others think, when they get there.
by treeplanter
Tue Jul 16, 2024 11:39 am
Forum: Trails & Campsites
Topic: New Food Storage Guidelines in Effect
Replies: 12
Views: 9747

Re: New Food Storage Guidelines in Effect

.......Hunger, of course, is the motivation. Have the new wolves been eating beaver? I was in favor of the reintroduction but it's probably folly for us to think we can understand and account for, let alone control, all the factors and it would appear that some of those factors are still unknown ...
by treeplanter
Sat Jul 13, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: Trails & Campsites
Topic: New Food Storage Guidelines in Effect
Replies: 12
Views: 9747

New Food Storage Guidelines in Effect

Apparently wolves have learned if they find campers, they find food.

https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/news/isl ... ctions.htm
by treeplanter
Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:14 pm
Forum: Wildlife
Topic: 2024 Moose/Wolf Study Report Out
Replies: 0
Views: 6618

2024 Moose/Wolf Study Report Out

In a nutshell, the wolf population is stable at about 30 wolves. Moose numbers have dropped to about 840. They were as high as 2,000 in 2019.

https://www.mtu.edu/news/2024/04/wolf-p ... slows.html
by treeplanter
Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:48 am
Forum: Trails & Campsites
Topic: favorite trail and campsite
Replies: 9
Views: 7235

Re: favorite trail and campsite

Favorite trail: probably the westbound section of the Minong from McCargoe Cove to Otter Lake, mainly because Otter Lake just appears out of nowhere. You have no idea the lake is there until you find yourself on a ridge a few hundred feet above it.

Favorite campground. Probably Malone, mainly for ...
by treeplanter
Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: Wildlife
Topic: Winter Study update
Replies: 6
Views: 7061

Re: Winter Study update

....I wonder if global warming is also, contributing to the decline in the moose population.


Moose really don't like warm weather. The moose in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (reintroduced in 1985) are at the south edge of their range. Isle Royale may be a bit better for moose, due to the being an ...
by treeplanter
Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:22 am
Forum: Wildlife
Topic: Winter Study update
Replies: 6
Views: 7061

Re: Winter Study update

The winter study was suspended on February 2nd. Unsafe ice conditions forced the team to return to the mainland. They may return this winter if cold weather returns. Very preliminary observations were that more moose calfs were noticed than last year.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan ...
by treeplanter
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: Pictures
Topic: Wolf on the Greenstone?
Replies: 3
Views: 6078

Re: Wolf on the Greenstone?

Lot of tracks this morning.

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by treeplanter
Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: Pictures
Topic: Wolf on the Greenstone?
Replies: 3
Views: 6078

Wolf on the Greenstone?

Popped up earlier today. A wolf going for a stroll?

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by treeplanter
Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:27 am
Forum: Pictures
Topic: Webcam Feedback
Replies: 8
Views: 7987

Re: Webcam Feedback

Purely by chance, I checked the IR webcams yesterday evening and caught this moonrise.

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