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At 102 years old, Pat Nybeck’s life is a tribute to resilience, dedication, and the profound changes over a century. Born on July 20, 1922, at her family farm in Bessemer Township, Gogebic County, Michigan, Nybeck’s early life was marked by a series of relocations due to her mother’s marriages. Raised in various towns across the Upper Peninsula, she experienced significant hardships.

If you’re like most private forest landowners, you probably want to improve wildlife habitat. This is one of the most common goals that landowners have, but some of them want to improve the habitat specifically for birds. So, what does forest bird habitat look like? Is any forest good for all birds or is there one forest that’s better than another? The answer is “it depends!”

Timber harvests are an important part of Michigan’s $26 billion forest products economy. Michigan’s forest products industry has hit a new peak, adding $26.5 billion to Michigan’s economy, according to new data released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

15 Alger County 4-H’ers joined 65 youth total, ages 9-13, from across the Upper Peninsula at the Clear Lake Education Center nestled in the Hiawatha National Forest to participate in UP 4-H Summer Camp at Clear Lake on July 9th-11th.

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The Schooner Madeline’s presence in the small harbor at Michigan’s Fayette State Park recreates the historic times when wooden schooners were the cargo ships that made the smelting of iron ore in Fayette possible and provided critical support for other small frontier ports on the upper Great Lakes.

The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Detroit Regional Office in partnership with the Iron Mountain VA Medical Center and its community-based outpatient clinics offers tele-benefits calls each Monday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET to answer VA benefits questions. VBA can assist Veterans and their caregivers, survivors, or dependents with filing a VA disability claim, checking claim status, answering PACT Act questions, verifying benefits or amount letters, requesting forms or letters, and helping dependents and survivors with inquires. The VBA Detroit Regional Office also provides services associated with VA pensions, burials, home loans, survivor benefits, education and employment.

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In some ways, Munising resident Libby Whittington’s passions are pretty simple; she loves coffee and she loves VW buses. However, combining the two has created something quite special; the Dream Bean Machine, Grand Marais’ unique coffee and gift shop on wheels.