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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

Introduction:
Joe's favorite wilderness haunts

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     • Joe's favorite wilderness haunts

As you sit on the hillside,
or lie prone under the trees of the forest,
or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream,
the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
—Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping, 1926

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Joe Clewley is especially fond of hiking off trail to pristine locations where he can sit—oftentimes on a stump—to take in the view and, hopefully, some passing wildlife.

You cannot appreciate or truly discuss the area if you do not leave the quad [ATV] or trail.
—Joe Clewley, Sr., per his son Russ Clewley

Some of Joe's favorite backwoods haunts in the bush around his camp in the eastern reaches of the Tahquamenon Falls State Park....

A beaver pond situated where the North Country Trail cuts the upper section of the main branch of Lynch Creek in the southeast quarter of section 12. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy.
The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years,
who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking--
hale fellows, close upon ninety, but brisk as boys.
—Charles J.H. Dickens, 1812-1870

A beaver pond situated where the North Country Trail cuts the upper west branch of the Lynch Creek in the southeast quarter of section 12. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

 

A beaver pond—impounded behind a monstrous, 8-foot-high dam—secreted away in the northwest quarter of section 13. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,
and at what period soever in life, is always a child.
In the woods is perpetual youth.
Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed,
and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years.
In the woods we return to reason and faith.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist, 1803-1882

Two views of another beaver flooding secreted away in the northwest quarter of section 13. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

 

Lake 708 in the chain of lakes known as Camp 10 Lakes in Section 11. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

 

Chris Ozminski, a member of the Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue Team, pauses at the base of a massive eastern white pine situated along a foot trail near the Lynch Creek headwaters pond in the northwest quarter of section 7. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

This instinct for a free life in the open is as natural and wholesome
as the gratification of hunger and thirst and love.
It is Nature’s recall to the simple mode of existence she intended us for.
—Horace Kephart, Camping & Woodcraft, 1917

The Lynch Creek headwaters pond in the northwest quarter of section 7. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

 

Chris Ozminski, a member of the Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue Team, surveys the ruins of "The Cabins" along the Lynch Creek Trail in the northeast quarter of section 12. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

A ruffed grouse in Joe's Country southeast of the "The Cabins" along the Lynch Creek Trail in the northeast quarter of section 12. (Photo by Michael Neiger)

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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

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

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