Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RALPH ANSAMI
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has been working snowmobile patrols that began with the New Year's weekend, when the Ironwood area experienced two fatalities.
MDNR Sgt. Grant Emery, formerly of Bessemer, worked snowmobile activity in the Porcupine Mountains State Park, according to a Dec. 31-Jan. 13 report from the DNR.
Trail conditions were “near perfect” because of a large amount of snowfall and snowmobilers flocked to the park. Emery took enforcement action for failure to register snowmobiles, no snowmobile trail permits, failure to af...