The eastern coyote comonly mistaken for a wolf is a wild North American canine hybrid with both coyote and wolf parentage. The hybridization likely first occurred in the Great Lakes region, as western coyotes moved east. It was first reported in the early 1930s to the late 1940s.
Here a pack of Eastern Coyote pass through camp quickly. They size up the skunk and none want to partake as well as the skunk is not alarmed. This was early spring 2023.

Old Pentoga Village located on the border of Wisconsin in Florence County and Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Iron County.  Closest towns are Iron River MI, Crystal Falls MI, Florence WI.  Old Pentoga was once a small town serving a lumber company that had a mill down on the Brule River.  1890 – 1950 would be the dates the town was thriving and growing.  The rail line ran close and some say it was called Pentoga Station.  Each home was a replica Company house, now there are only two original homes standing in 2021.  The Logs were floated down the Brule River to the mill. The town had a school, church and some hotels.  Today the valley has some smaller homes and camps, it is basically a reclaimed ghost town for nature lovers and those that seek solitude.

There is a summer cycle to Old Pentoga Village.  Down by the Brule River is a lower meadow.  Each evening the meadow fills with fog.  Each night the meadow fills with nature sounds, fireflies, bedding deer. 

The Brule River divides Wisconsin and Michigan.  The road Pentoga trail is the only crossing for many miles in both directions.  Iron River has a crossing, but most of the small older bridges have been washed out for years.

Pentoga Trail bridge and river crossing into Wisconsin.  This is the only river crossing into Wisconsin in the area as most of the other bridges have been lost to spring floods.  2023 flood washed out this bridge on the Wisconsin side, but the bridge stayed, the river cut on the Wisconsin bank low side.

More views of the Brule river on Pentoga Trail and the crossing from Michigan to Wisconsin.  This is springtime in 2023.  The river here has native trout and is fed from Brule lake.

Fawns are born about 6 months after mating, in late May-early June. Yearling does usually give birth to one fawn. Older does will usually breed twins and sometimes triplets. 

This is YooperWebCam base of opperations.  We are running a Starlink internet here in the remote nortwoods and broadcasting some webcam views here on the Wisconsin – Michigan U.P.

Cycling into Amasa Michigan in the U.P. on Old US Hwy 141. Crossing the Hemlock River and Joe Mechon Memorial Park into town and Pine Street.

Found this deer trying to have a private meal on the Hemlock river outside of Amasa Michigan in the U.P. Was just off the Bates-Amasa Road on one of the small bridge crossings running next to 643.