Who We Are

Ann Jandernoa/owner – graduate forester, autho/designer of all our Habitat Maps, professional guide, and competition musher	Skip Souther/part time associate – former Pulp & Paper executive, professional dog trainer, licensed guide, and gps specialist

 

Since the summer of 2002 we have been successfully growing Northwind Enterprises, LLC, located in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.  From mapping grouse habitat, to conducting outdoor grouse & woodcock clinics and gps clinics, to breeding Elhew bred English Pointers and training all breeds of bird dogs, to guiding hunters on grouse & woodcock hunts in northern Wisconsin, to conducting workshops/seminars on the off season “on the road” on how to locate and strategically hunt grouse & woodcock and producing a DVD package of the same title, our business is all about grouse and woodcock hunting.

We are the people who, in the fall of 2002, first designed, produced, and introduced to grouse hunters throughout North American the grouse habitat maps that were written up in the 2005 March/April edition of the Shooting Sportsman magazine.  By the end of 2007 we had available to grouse hunters 102 books of maps that collectively identify over 4250 clear cuts within  Wisconsin, Minnesota, Lower and Upper Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Vermont that total over 208,000 acres of habitat.

In 2003, at the request of many of our customers, Ann developed a 3 1/2 hour, hands-on “Grouse Clinic”, conducted in the woods, for hunters who want to learn more about the Ruffed Grouse, its habitat, food sources, etc.  In the fall of 2005, Tom Mohrhauser, contributing editor for the Upland Almanac magazine, participated in one of Ann’s Northwind Grouse & Woodcock Clinics and wrote an article that ran in the 2006 spring edition.  In the article Mr. Mohrhauser writes: “Ann Jandernoa and Skip Souther, via their company Northwind Enterprises, LLC. are offering hunters a veritable smorgasbord of information and tools that will dramatically increase anyone’s chances for success and more importantly, your enjoyment.  With a product line of maps detailing clear cuts in prime grouse states across the upper Midwest and New England, habitat and grouse behavior seminars, guiding and well-bred and trained grouse dogs they have come up with the right products and services for the times.”  Further on in the article Mr. Mohrhauserwrites ”Jandernoa is a highly trained forester that is well respected by loggers for her knowledge of the woodland’s subtle differences in habitat and has guided many a logging crew to harvesting techniques that minimize many of the negative effects of logging.  Her knowledge became quite evident the moment the classroom moved to the first clear cut we studied.”

With proven success at helping others better enjoy their grouse and woodcock hunting experiences by using our maps and/or participating in one of our grouse clinics, it was inevitable that we would be asked to conduct guided hunts. To that end, we have been guiding novices as well as seasoned grouse hunters in the Northwoods for several seasons. 

As an integral part of our guide business we came to the conclusion that we should breed and train our own grouse dogs.  Based on our personal experiences and recommendations from numerous grouse hunters and breeders, we decided to develop the core of our grouse dogs from the Elhew line of English Pointers.  In addition, building on over fourteen years of Ann’s experience with Northwind Kennels (breeding, training, racing, and selling Alaskan Husky sled dogs) we concluded that we should have at least one litter on the ground every 12-18 months to not only keep our own guide dogs viable, but to provide to our grouse hunting customers the opportunity to own their own Elhew bred pup or started grouse dog. 

In 2006 Northwind Enterprises, LLC acquired a parcel of undeveloped forest lands nestled in the heart of the Northwoods, just north of Park Falls WI, Ruffed Grouse Capital of the World.  Our property is surrounded by thousands of acres of public lands, prime grouse and woodcock habitat.  From late spring, through summer, and into the early fall, we spend most every day training our own guide dog pups and started dogs, along with a number of our customer’s pups and dogs, in the same environment in which they will hunt for our clients and/or their owners.

As we have said from the beginning, Northwind Enterprises, LLC has been all about grouse and woodcock.  Our mission was to use our collective experiences to provide the grouse and woodcock enthusiast with the information, education, and services that will make his/her hunting experiences as enjoyable and productive as possible.  Beginning this year, however, we are expanding our expertise into providing deer hunters with deer habitat maps and to providing all hunters with hunting maps that show lands, both public and private, open to hunting.  We are excited about or new line of In The Field Habitat Maps, pre-loaded microSD cards, and our new line of Northwind Public Hunting Lands Maps.  For that opportunity we thank you and thanks for visiting our website.