Can you believe it? Michiana Outdoors News just completed its first year as a regional outdoors website.

Time flies when you’re having fun and we’ve certainly had fun with this. We appreciate your patience as we continue to learn and improve our unique concept of a regional outdoors website.

We must be doing something right. Our numbers of visitors climb monthly and we had a record month in August with 10,000 page views. We had more than 90,000 page views the first year and 57,000 unique visits, which is quite exceptional for a first year and a local format.

We’re attracting quality advertisers, too, which is critical for us to continue to bring you better information. We’ve been blessed with support from Shimano, G. Loomis, PowerPro, D&R Sports Center, Lake Drive Marine, and Moore’s Boats. Take time to click on the advertisers, and when you visit their businesses, let them know you saw them on our site.

Our goal with Michiana Outdoors News remains to provide more timely and regional-specific outdoors news and how-to material than what you’ll find in magazines and newspapers.

But we need your help to get better. Tell us what you like about this site, what you don’t like, and what else you’d like to see us include that would make it even better. Contact us through this site or post a note on our facebook page.

We will be running surveys on the home page periodically and hope you will participate. Help us give you more of what you want.