Running Fit Events hosts Run Vasa — a 5K, 10K and 25K run through the Vasa trail Nov. 9 at 9 a.m. Snow or shine. $24-29.

If you were lucky enough to cruise M-22 during the glory days of October, you likely agree with USA TODAY that it’s America’s Number One Best Scenic Autumn Drive. The byway weaves alongside the Leelanau, Benzie and Manistee Lake Michigan coastline, mile by mile unfolding colorful contrasts o…

It’s jig and pig time for bass anglers, though pigs (pork frogs) are hard to come by now that Uncle Josh has stopped making them. But there are about a billion soft-plastic substitutes and Strike King has a new addition to its soft plastics line of Ragetails — the Punch Bug.

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TRAVERSE CITY — Local environmental advocates want private landowners to help them track whether an invasive bug has trekked this far north.

TRAVERSE CITY — The sea of orange-clad cyclists fanning out from the Grand Traverse County Civic Center weekday afternoons is the state’s largest youth mountain biking team in training.

‘Concealed in every bulb is a little bit of a beautiful garden.”

Northern Michigan Mountain Bike Association and TART Trails open their new 2-mile trail opens from noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Vasa Pathway. 

LANSING — Sometimes you have to fight invasive species with invasive species.

LELAND — It’s hunters against the wilds for the annual week-long North Manitou Island deer hunt.

TRAVERSE CITY — Invasive mussels in the Great Lakes are linked to problems with the freshwater seas’ food web, issues that impact both commercial and sport fisheries.

WINDSOR, Ontario — I hadn’t talked to my buddy, veteran Lake St. Clair fishing guide Jon Bondy, in a while, but he sent me an email, said he’d just had a cancellation, and if I wanted, we could fish the next morning, and I should meet him at 7 a.m. at the marina on the Detroit River, about a…

Bluegills and sunfish have moved back into the shallows now with the cooler weather and are readily available. For anglers who want to catch panfish but don’t want to mess with bait, I recommend a Beetle Spin.

PORT HURON — Years before the Titanic, a Great Lakes ship walked on water.

Costumed kids are invited to collect treats from 10-11:30 a.m. Oct. 26 during the Downtown Halloween Walk in Traverse City.

Have you ever gotten to the point where the thing you love … the thing that helps you relieve stress starts to feel like a chore?

LANSING — Isolated as it is, Isle Royale may be biologically less isolated and more connected than scientists had believed.

The Palmer Woods Forest Reserve, which opened just a few years ago, offers some nice trail systems that cater to a wide range of forest users.

A collection of columns from Record-Eagle Outdoors Columnist Mike Terrell:

A recent pike fishing expedition got me to thinking about the baits I used many years ago. My father was a pike fan, and when I was a kid, one of my dad’s favorite lures for casting for pike was the Red Eye Wiggler, or simply, Red Eye spoon.

TRAVERSE CITY — Several weekend activities are scheduled to occur in northern Michigan to celebrate the approaching Halloween holiday.

CASS CITY — Tom Lounsbury owns a nice little chunk of land here that looks out of place. It is tall grass prairie, but compared to the endless acres of corn and sugar beets surrounding it, it sees almost as though a small chunk of Dakota got picked up by a whirlwind and deposited in the Thum…

Opossums are, in my opinion, the easiest animals to trap, they are slow and if you approach them quickly, they play dead. This is an amazing reaction to fear. Instinctively they understand that most predators will only eat live animals. When opossums feel threatened, they will fall over, the…

DELTON — There was a nip of fall in the air and that, Joe Bednar said, would change things dramatically.

Hike with the Leelanau Conservancy's program, “Let’s Ask the Trees and Their Wildlife Buddies!” at 10 a.m. Oct. 19 at Clay Cliffs. 

It’s that time of year when lots of folks will begin putting up their outboard motors for the season and that means, among other things, adding a gas stabilizer to the fuel tank.

TRAVERSE CITY — Eighth Street’s reopening in September unveiled protected bike paths improving safety for urban cyclists.

LANSING — Women who fish have created a new Twitter hashtag to promote awareness of their growing numbers.

LANSING — Invasive sea lamprey are known for sucking the life out of fish, but what about the survivors?

Leelanau Day of Planting is set from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at Ruby Ellen Farm. Tour the farm, learn about tree maintenance and planting tips and enjoy refreshments.

Fall colors seem a bit slow arriving this year, but the recent cooldown should bring them back to a more normal pattern.

TRAVERSE CITY — A Traverse City woman wants bicyclists to add one simple piece of equipment to their gear: a bell.

It is fall and change is in the air — more so it seems than usual.

There are about as many styles of fishing bobbers as there are anglers, but one of the best panfish anglers I’ve even known, the late Bluegill Bob Miskowski, was sold on torpedo floats.

ERIE — There were plenty of geese in the air, but they all seemed to have some other destination in mind. Joe Robison, the ramrod on this four-man hunt, said that’s the way they’d been flying lately and they’d been coming to the decoys a little bit later in the morning.

GLADWIN –- I didn’t hear the bird flush, but I heard the shotgun report from one of my partners off to my right – no more than 20 yards away but completely invisible in the young aspens that were as thick as road tar – and he said he got it and it should be just in front of me. I took a few …

Traverse City Track Club hosts the 26th annual Remembrance Run at noon Oct. 6 at Timber Ridge Resort. A 5K and 1-mile trail walk are available. Donations support the Women’s Cancer Fund.