FRUITPORT, Mich — A man who lost his ability walk after a hunting accident has not let his injury stop him — now regularly hunting and advocating for safe practices during the season.

Geoff Newmyer, 36, broke his back and severely damaged his spinal cord when he fell out of a tree stand 12 years ago in Free Soil.

The family always went hunting in the first full weekend of October for the opening weekend of bow season, Newmyer said.

“We were just going back out to take our stands down, and I was coming back down out of a tree,” he said. “A branch broke, and I fell from there about 12 to 15 feet.”

Newmyer went through therapy at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation…