Mike Terrell
Monday, June 8, 2009
The Jordan River Valley
Features
The Jordan River Valley:
a ‘Promised Land’ for Hikers
By Mike Terrell 6/8/09
The 18,000-acre Jordan River Valley, which is part of the Mackinaw State Forest, is one of my favorite natural areas in the Lower Peninsula, especially spring and early summer. Any season is beautiful in the valley, but in May and June colorful wildflowers and trillium carpet the forest floor and marsh marigolds sprout along the river’s banks and little grass islands.
But beware the bugs this time of year. You almost need a net over your hat to ward off the pesky little bugs that like to orbit around your head, black flies and mosquitoes included. You need at least a good bug spray. When I visited there in mid-May to do a little hiking with my labs, while, of course, looking for a few morels, I forgot the spray and spent most of my time waving my hat around my head. But the views from the high ridges were beautiful, and I did find a few woodland fungi, despite the insects.
a ‘Promised Land’ for Hikers
By Mike Terrell 6/8/09
The 18,000-acre Jordan River Valley, which is part of the Mackinaw State Forest, is one of my favorite natural areas in the Lower Peninsula, especially spring and early summer. Any season is beautiful in the valley, but in May and June colorful wildflowers and trillium carpet the forest floor and marsh marigolds sprout along the river’s banks and little grass islands.
But beware the bugs this time of year. You almost need a net over your hat to ward off the pesky little bugs that like to orbit around your head, black flies and mosquitoes included. You need at least a good bug spray. When I visited there in mid-May to do a little hiking with my labs, while, of course, looking for a few morels, I forgot the spray and spent most of my time waving my hat around my head. But the views from the high ridges were beautiful, and I did find a few woodland fungi, despite the insects.
Monday, May 18, 2009
My wild life
Features
My wild life
Mike Terrell 5/18/09
For the last 23 years many of you had followed my outdoor activities and resultant columns in the Traverse City Record-Eagle, but that came to an end in January when the paper lost its freelance budget for outdoor columnists. Daily newspapers are fighting for their very lives and having to cut budgets wherever they can.
It was disappointing. I was saddened by the fact that I never got to write a final column for all my loyal readers. In 23 years I had heard from many of you, especially when my wife Kathy passed away in 1997. I got hundreds of heartfelt responses, but I also heard from many over the years about how they enjoyed the columns, saved and used them. Some columns that readers showed me were from the late 1980s and early 1990s, yellowed and worn, but still being used.
Mike Terrell 5/18/09
For the last 23 years many of you had followed my outdoor activities and resultant columns in the Traverse City Record-Eagle, but that came to an end in January when the paper lost its freelance budget for outdoor columnists. Daily newspapers are fighting for their very lives and having to cut budgets wherever they can.
It was disappointing. I was saddened by the fact that I never got to write a final column for all my loyal readers. In 23 years I had heard from many of you, especially when my wife Kathy passed away in 1997. I got hundreds of heartfelt responses, but I also heard from many over the years about how they enjoyed the columns, saved and used them. Some columns that readers showed me were from the late 1980s and early 1990s, yellowed and worn, but still being used.
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