Selected articles from current or past issues
Riverwatch founder and former editor Ed McGlinn: On Shep and the NWC
July 2003: | Granholm
challenged in bids for Pigeon, AuSable drilling | Granholm:
Conservation takes a licking |
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WEBMASTER'S NOTE: This passage reprinted from the Angler's original website.
by Edward McGlinn
What can we say that hasn't already been said about the importance of Glen Sheppard and The North Woods Call. Shep is not getting any younger, just like the rest of us, and I, for one, don't know what we're going to do when he decides to hang up his hat, his typewriter, his computer, his pencil, or whatever an editor and publisher does when he decides he's had enough and says, "That's it," and retires to the good life in the drumlins and on the trout streams.
The Call is unique and Shep is irreplaceable. I suppose a lot of people in various industries around the state and in the mahogany offices - and even the sheet-rock offices - of the State Capitol in Lansing are looking forward to the day when Shep closes the Call, undoubtedly hoping it will be sooner than later. However, those who value the land, rivers, lakes, and wild creatures for their own sake hope it will never come.
I think both sides are living in a dream world.
Shep is a good friend to my delight, and I have no inside information on his retirement. I don't know how long he intends to be the spokesman and advocate for the "real world" in the north woods: the spoiler of unrelenting development; the gentle critic of satisfied and self-important environmentalists; the defender of trout, trilliums, mayflies, and rivers; the nagging gadfly in Lansing's environmental politics; the joyful chronicler of dogs, grouse, and gameless hunts; the skillful teller of stories; the down-to-earth, gritty, let-it-all-hang-out reporter; and more. With all of the above, the "and more" is the most impressive. I can't list all of what Shep does and has done, and I can't cite all the reasons he has been so important to our north woods for so many years. I can only say that whatever he does, and however he does it, nobody else does it any better if they do it at all.
So enjoy the curmudgeon of the drumlins while you can. And enjoy the Call while it's here for us to enjoy. If you truly love this state and its land and waters you should have the Call in your home every other week.
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