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A Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue Op
for
Joseph Robert Clewley
Missing since July 13, 2008

by
Michael A. Neiger (a.k.a. LandNavMan)
Senior SAR Team Leader
Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue
Marquette :: Michigan

Notice: This Web site is no longer being maintained; for the latest information on the search for Joe Clewley, visit his new Web site.

Last seen along the North Country Trail (NCT)
Tahquamenon Falls State Park :: Whitefish Township :: Chippewa County
Paradise :: Michigan

Up to
$1,000 Reward
for anonymous tips
about Joe Clewley's disappearance
Northern International Crime Stoppers Tip Line:
1-800-465-7867
View/print poster

Official Chippewa Sheriff's Office Web page for Joe Clewley


Table of Contents

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Introduction:
     • Joe Clewley goes missing
     • Joe's dog & vehicle
           Chip, Joe's trusty dog (Chip returned!)
          
Joe's trailhead vehicle
     • Joseph Robert Clewley, the man
     • Joe's favorite wilderness haunts
The SAR operation
     • Chippewa County Sheriff's Office responds
          
The interagency SAR effort
           Investigating agency
           How to report tips or sightings
           View or print Joe Clewley's missing-person poster
SAR Team resources
     • SAR Team land nav beta
           SAR land nav info
           SAR topographic and satellite digital imagery
           
SAR placename coordinates
                  North Country Trail (NCT)
                  Tahqua Trail
                  Tahquamenon River
                  Timberlost Road
     • SAR ops land nav field gear
     • SAR ops survival field gear
     • SAR ops biting-insect field gear
     •
Michigan Backcountry SAR Team info 
          
Michigan Backcountry SAR Team Joe Clewley operations log (revised 09-02-09)
           Official sponsors and supporters of the Michigan Backcountry SAR Team
           Michigan Backcountry SAR Team vehicle parking permit
     • SAR Team travel resources
           Driving and search-area locator maps
           Online maps
           County-by-county map books

           Travel contacts
           Road conditions
           Weather forecasts
           Emergency contacts
     • SAR ops management resources
           
SAR management books
           SAR management Internet Links
     • SAR ops man-tracking & sign-cutting resources
           SAR man-tracking & sign-cutting books
           SAR man-tracking & sign-cutting Internet links
     • SAR ops K-9 resources
           SAR K-9 books
           SAR K-9 Internet links

Other resources
     • Learn more, discuss case, submit a message, or send feedback
           Media archive
          
Missing persons resources
           Internet discussion thread for Clewley case
           Messages received for Clewley family, friends, & SAR Teams
          
Submit messages, comments, suggestions, or corrections

Notice: This Web site is no longer being maintained; for the latest information on the search for Joe Clewley, visit his new Web site.

Sunset over Joe's Country, as viewed from Snug Harbor,
which is situated 3.5 miles downstream from the Clewley log cabin, along the Tahquamenon River.
(Photo from SAR Op No. 3 [Aug 8-10, 2008] by Michael Neiger)

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
—Lord Byron (George Noel Gordon) 1788-1824
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto IV [1818], stanza 178


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In God's wilderness lies the hope of the world,
the great, fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.

 —John Muir (1838-1914), Alaska Wilderness, 1890

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thank a Teacher;
If you've been able to read this Web page in English...
thank a Veteran.
—Author unknown

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