Nancy Jo Adams

Marti Davis

     Nancy Jo Adams who is one of the newest members of the Up North Journal staff has teamed up with Marti Davis to form Team Artemis for the Whitetail Challenge!  Be sure to follow Nancy Jo’s and Marti’s adventure by checking out the daily blog entries to see if they arrowed the big buck!  You can check it out by going to Nancy Jo’s Up North Journal bio page and clicking on her blog link.  Nancy Jo is the hunter for this team and Marti is the videographer capturing all the exciting footage of the hunt!  Good luck to the first all female team to take on the Campbell’s Outdoor Challenge!

     I spent the opening day of Michigan’s waterfowl season with both of my sons and a few friends out on the water in a local state game area Saturday.  It was my youngest son’s first of what he calls “Big Boy Hunts”.  He finally gets to go out with the entire crew of men to become one of the men and partake in taking game from the field.

     All went extremely well and he even got his first bird of which everyone give him a congratulatory birage of “ataboys”!  We all took a duck or two and made our way back to the launch.  Upon arrival I was greated with a terrible surprise of a shot out window on the back of my pick up! 

     Someone, whom I will not call a hunter, found it necessary to shoot towards the parking area at what I hope was a duck and not just plain malicious destruction!  I say not a hunter because a hunter would know where his or her safe zone of fire is.  A hunter would know where the parking area is.  A hunter would know that it is dangerous to shoot towards any area where people might be congregating.  That is why I will not call this person a hunter.  I know accidents happen, but this is exactly why you don’t shoot towards an area that you don’t know what is in front of your shooting lane!

     Just think what could have happened if this had been a group of hunters standing there instead of my truck?  I might be writing a story of how a group of hunters were shot or worse yet killed because of someone’s stupidity!

     Am I mad?  Hell yes, I’m mad, but I won’t let this ruin what was one of my greatest days in the field watching my youngest boy become a man that day hanging out in the marsh with fellow hunters!  And by the way, he knows his safe zone of fire, we went over it thoroughly that morning!  Have a great hunting season and be safe out there!

To read about our entire hunt and view the photos check out my Up North Journal Hunting Blog.

     While getting ready to wash my hunting clothes last week I made a discovery on one of the new energy efficient front loader washing machines.  It was something that could have ruined my efforts to make my camo scent free! Read the rest of this entry »

Press Release                                                 October 3, 2009

Mike Adams, UNJ Founder

      About four months ago the Up North Journal crew launched a new website to prepare for the new outdoor show Beyond The Wild.   That new web site was the beginning of the transformation that we as the UNJ crew were about to make.  Since that time we have added several new staff members to give you a view of the outdoors from all over this nation.  We didn’t want to just focus on the Michigan area, we wanted this new adventure to encompass what hunting, fishing and the outdoors looked like from several different perspectives as well as from several different states. 

     With that goal in mind we knew it was time for a new look and feel for the UNJ experience, so we came up with a new logo to showcase what we were about.  The logo you’re looking at is fresh as well as bold.  It completes what we are focused on, a broad range of animals as well as a wide range of the outdoors.  The whitetail deer is hunted all across this nation and is well recognized, the Canadian goose has flyways from east to west and the Trout is fished all across this country.  These three species cover the nation and are pursued by many outdoorsmen and women, and that is why we chose them for our new logo.  The circle that surrounds these animals on the logo completes the circle of seasons that gives us the opportunity to pursue them.  The black and white color scheme is simple yet bold, which explains who we are.  We are simple everyday outdoorsmen and women but we are also bold in what we stand for, the right for all to enjoy the outdoors.  Right in the middle of it all is the Up North Journal name which is right where we want to be, in the middle of it all!

     Take a moment to stop by and look at the new layout and if you’ve never been to our website www.upnorthjournal.com, stop by and spend a few moments to see what we have to offer.  We have 13 active blogs from fellow staffers who want share their outdoor experiences with you.  Featured on our front page is our weekly podcast “Up North Journal” which can be played directly from our site along with our new outdoor show “Beyond The Wild” which is a monthly show that can also be played right off of our front page.  The Up North Journal staff is “Changing Lives One Outdoor Adventure At A Time”!