RICHMOND TOWNSHIP, MI— The Skoglund-Erickson Shooting Range in Marquette County is open for the season.
The public range is in Richmond Township, 2.7 miles south of County Road 480, along the road to the Goose Lake Boating Access Site. The all-accessible facility will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through early December.
Funding for the range was provided through a federal grant administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and supplemented by the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund.
The range – built on 25 acres owned by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. – is dedicated to Michigan Conservation Officer Emil Skoglund and Game Warden Arvid Erickson who were shot and killed by an ex-convict not far from the shooting range location in September 1926.
