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Northern Michigan is a place, like all places, in change. Over the past half century, its landscape has been bulldozed, subdivided, and built upon. Climate change warms the water of the Great Lakes at an alarming rate—Lake Superior is now the fastest-warming large body of freshwater on the planet—creating increasingly frequent and severe storm events, altering aquatic and shoreline ecosystems, and contributing to further invasions by non-native plants and animals.
And yet the essence of this region, known to many as simply "Up North," has proved remarkably perennial. Millions of acres of state and national forests and other public lands remain intact. Small towns peppered across the rural countryside have changed little over the decades, pushing back the machinery of progress with the help of dedicated land conservancies, conservation organizations, and other advocacy groups.
Up North in Michigan, the new collection from celebrated nature writer Jerry Dennis, captures its author's lifelong journey to better know this place he calls home by exploring it in every season, in every kind of weather, on foot, on bicycle, in canoes and cars. The essays in this book are more than an homage to a particular region, its people, and its natural wonders. They are a reflection on the Up North that can only be experienced through your feet and fingertips, through your ears, mouth, and nose—the Up North that makes its way into your bones as surely as sand makes its way into wood grain.
The paperback contains a new chapter by Jerry Dennis that has been written since the publication of the hardcover.
Contents
Introduction 1
Spring
Loon Song 7
Spring Arrives 10
Water, Water 12
The Color of Steelhead 15
A Random Act 17
An April Shower 19
Opening Days 22
Night Watch on The Malabar 26
The Overlooked Forest 28
Drenched in Color 31
From a Hilltop, Looking Back 33
Yellowthroats and Agates 37
The Night Country 40
Rivers and Time 43
A Bountiful Weekend 45
The Dawn Chorus 48
Summer
Summer and Slow Time 53
Getting Lost 55
Island Song 57
The Wind on the Beach 67
Sandblasted 72
Our Bay Life 74
The Rules of Cottage Living 76
Sparks in the Sky 79
Ways of Seeing Sleeping Beat 81
Shorewalking 84
Creek Music 92
Boys of Summer 95
A Spur of the Moment Kind of Day 97
Surprised by Beauty 100
In the Upper Country 102
Making Trail 104
August Explorations 106
Making Memories 108
Summer Work and High Water 110
Autumn
The Fringe of Autumn 115
The Many Autumns 117
A Riot of Colors, with Violins 122
The Autumn Trail 124
A Round River 126
River Rush 129
Bird Camp Memories 132
Two-Trackin' 140
The Restless Season 143
A November Wind 145
Winter
Winter Roads 149
Winter and White Space 151
The Quiet Hours 153
Ken Scott's Ice Caves 156
Star Matter 160
Winter Time 163
Waxwings in Winter 165
My Lost Lake 167
Real Winter 169
Visitors 171
Season of Snow and Books 173
Acknowledgments 177
