tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89762402011-12-29T02:23:49.878-05:00ofieldstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492255909774146702noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976240.post-78667800232935170472011-12-29T02:23:00.000-05:002011-12-29T02:23:49.891-05:00

My good friend and fellow aquatic hauntee, George Jacox, posted earlier today about books, specifically fly-fishing books he liked.  He elaborated a bit on his main thesis.  George's post drew a rather agreeable comment from our common friend, William (Bill) Schudlich.  Bill's comments got me to thinking.  First off I just had to make this comment: ---- Shoot, y'all just named half my '

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How important - TO YOU - is your ability to enjoy Outdoor Activities? A LOT you say?  Then you have the opportunity to PROVE IT. Read this report as of August 23, 2011 - Fly-fishing industry threatened by Congress . Now... you MUST DECIDE: What are YOU going to DO about it?  No, this is not a matter of letting 'others' ... bear-the-burden, carry-the-load, fight-the-fight or

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Tomorrow will dawn the 27th of June, 2011.  Once again we have entered summer in the northern hemisphere. It's getting hot and in many places remains unseasonably wet; while others are equally dry. In the southern hemisphere, the seasons are plowing into the winter months. The exact opposite of us in the northern version. But for me, it's not of season that my mind wanders.  No, it's to an

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WORDS ... it is said, have launched ships, made and brought down nations and have inspired all, from kings to the common man.  They are the currency of communication.  As the old saw says, "Clothes make the man.", similarly words make the character of any person.  For how we speak is more important that what we speak. Because what we speak is constructed of the How.In my life words are a most

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OK.. time for some feathers to fly. I just saw a post by one of my Facebook Friends (FBF), pointing to the now-running, National Geographic Photo contest. As usual the thumbnail image, in the post's LINK, was too small for me to see clearly at first. But, I read my FBF's commentary.  I couldn't agree more.  A National Geographic photo contest should be pretty darned good and worthy of strolling

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Wolverine.What comes to mind when you hear or see this word, name, description? I'd dare say it is not what truly exists.Michigan's state nickname? Evil-spirit? Legend? Phantom? Teeth? Danger? Hell-on-paw-w/-claws? How about the most successfully adapted creature to extreme cold climates imaginable? How about one of the most understudied and/or appreciated animals on the planet? How about

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It is amazing just how comfortable we, in the fortunate minority of earth's population, can become with a way of taking for granted the most basic of life essentials. We quibble about not having the right shirt, skirt, pants, shoes or whatever to wear.  We chafe over the least little infraction of our personally imprinted mandate on time.  Our fellow travelers on this road of impoverished

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TEXTSTRUCTIONby Les Booth The water flowed over my rod, now half in and half out of the stream. A gentle gurgle that normally awakens my spirit, now only lulled me deeper into the state of numbness I was entering. All about me the water was covered with the casts of dozens of mayflies. Mayflies which only ten minutes earlier were like manna from heaven. Now only flotsam in my dimming periphery. I

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Russ Blessing, Inventor of Woolly Bugger, Dies By Marshall Cutchin on November 2, 2009 8:58 AM | MidCurrent eNewsletter Combining the constant-motion softness of marabou feathers with a woolly worm fly, Russell C. Blessing's Woolly Bugger did what most great flies do: it improved on an already workable idea, and it helped those of us less apt to make a perfect presentation catch more fish.

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Cause Announcement from Protect Lake Superior GRAND MARAIS - From an enticing turquoise to a sublime dark blue, Lake Superior has many faces that influence the land it borders and the people settled on its shores. But as the lake affects us, we're affecting the lake. That's the topic of the Lake Superior Binational Forum held in Grand Marais Sept. 11. The forum will host speakers discussing

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Today is the 70th birthday of my good friend and esteemed colleague Dave Richey, of Traverse City, MI. Dave has more awards - on the wall, table and in the outdoor writer awards books - than just about anyone else who has ever tackled the business as a full time - Outdoor Writer. His efforts have garnered him accolades and admiration from around the world of Outdoor Communications.

ofieldstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492255909774146702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976240.post-38324519531276598042007-09-20T14:20:00.000-04:002007-10-12T12:14:44.342-04:00

The past week I ventured north of my normal parallel, to the lands of the tip of the mitten in lower Michigan; not to be confused with the UP - that would be the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I stopped just south of that fair land to venture near the near southern shores of Gichigoomi ... near the beautiful little town on north shores of Lake Michigan, called Traverse City.My mission was to meet

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I read this morning, on the FlyFish@ (FF@) newsgroup list, a comment about, Women and their safety in the out of doors.The author of the comments, Kim McDonald, an FF@ list member, pointed to the murders of a friend and her daughter in the area of Pinnacle Lake Trail near Mount Pilchuck in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, about 20 miles east of Granite Falls, Washington.This senseless

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Indiana Rivers and Water Quality , Jane FrankenburgerComments on Water Quality: (get date)Water Quality: 1) not good enough 2) not well enough understood 3) conference should bring people together to work on answers.Fish and Mussels in Indiana Rivers, Brant Fisher, IDNR211 species of fishes in IN rivers; many are invasive species compared to those located in the native rivers and streams

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Opening remarks by: Brent Ladd The Indiana Rivers Rally is for the people in this room. Indiana has the longest unimpeded waterway east of the Mississippi... the mighty Wabash River. Indiana has more miles of waterways than INDOT has in roadways. This should tell us something.At the IRR there are between 180 and 200 people in attendance. This is a unique event in the history of Indiana

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West Lafayette, IN 7 June 2007Today is the first day of the 3 day conference which many in the water and resource community has been awaiting for years. The Indiana Rivers Rally conference being held at Purdue University today - 7 June - through Saturday 9 June, is a gathering of the most interested and motivated of people working for the conservation, preservation, restoration and facilitation

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----- UPDATE -----Well, I had to come back to this post and make the corrections that I made on the original photographs. I had erroneously identified this little critter last year when I first posted it - as the rare and endangered Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber).However, I recently received an email from Dean Alessandrini, VP of The Greater Cincinnati Herpetological Society, correcting me

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Muskoka Outdoors Photo Gallery - Your Catch/Big LakerBill Anderson, over at Muskoka Outdoors has a new web site you out to take a look at. While there also, take a look at his new Photo Gallery. It's a free gallery - only costs you your email and he will NOT give it out. I was rumaging through it see what was there yet, and found photo at the link above. Whoopee! I want to know the details

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TODAY IS THE DAY.Today a total solar eclipse may be observed from 08:36 GMT (09:36 BST) to 11:48 GMT (12:48 BST) in Eastern Brazil, West and North Africa, Turkey, Central Asia and Mongolia. The Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 is underway. The area with the best view will be across Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia. North, Central and South America will miss out this year; as will Austrailia and

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Saturday 04 March 2006 was a boiling mass of fans, dogs, mushers and supplies lining the streets of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. All in anticipation of the 34th Running of the Last Great Race .. the Iditarod Dogsled Race. 1,112 miles from Anchorage to Nome. A grueling, tough, dangerous and unpredictable run for the finish line. This year the snow conditions in Alaska have been so abysmal that

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The high-volume rush of water, tumbling over rocks at steep incline, in a constrained space, builds the playground for one of the most exhilerating, fastest growing and dangerous sports in the world This outdoor activity is known as white-water (W-W) kayaking. Thousands of people have rushed to enjoy the sport of W-W and each year there are deaths. Most of these deaths are attributed to drowning,

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Dave .. If you're reading this email ... PLEASE READ THIS!We thought 9/11 was an event where blogging and podcasting could and did serve a great need, well, Katrina is the REAL PROVING GROUND. There are needs .. HUGE needs .. and they are NOT ALL centered in New Orleans !!!As you well know - the Media is a one-sided, cycloptic monster. It only sees - all at once we must admit !! - in

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Here we are - Thursday Sept 1, 2005 .. just now 4 days into the aftermath of hurricane Katrina ... and we are seeing the signs of our fragile social fabric - tearing under the stress. These were the same words used last night on the CBS Evening News - when veteran reporter, Harry Smith - stationed in Gulfport, MS - gave the wrap-up on his report for the day. FOUR DAYS!! Only 4 days. Let's

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If y'all haven't looked at the Wunder Photos Very Important Photos, then you need to. SmithFarm Photos, a Fish & Wildlife employee, has uploaded an extensive gallery of photos of the condtions - on-th-ground - in New Orleans. SFP did not label each photo extensively - the Captions are a repeat - but the photos are very descriptive. As well - I find the Caption itself very telling.Take a look ...

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I apologize that the links in the previous post did not come through ... here are the URLs: CNN interview w/Dr. Ivor van Heerden http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/28/katrina.doomsday/ (posted on 29 Aug 2005)CNN video interview w/ Mr. Walter Maestri [click link after 1st paragraph in at the link above] (this is from a 2004 interview! ) -- this IS a chilling commentary. We ARE NOW seeing it - it

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I know - professionally- the director of Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center, Dr. Ivor van Heerden; he's also the director fo the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes, located in Baton Rouge. He gave .. and has been GIVING a report on the impending disaster - for the past 20 years - we're are now deep into with New Orleans.I will make a comment on his studies -

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I've been listening - like may of you - to all the news channels - CNN,FOX, MSNBC and all of them have reporters saying the same thing: We hear that help in on the way - but no one has seen it!Grains of sand can totally immobalize a 60 ton tank. And just like those grains of sand, the grains of bureacracy are immobalizing an entire country: OURS If we don't stem this flow of confidence

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I have just been listening to FEMA director Mike Brown giving a press conference on just WHAT FEMA is doing in the face of this disaster.I would NOT want his job. But I can tell you that he is the first public official I've listened to today that speaks straight forward -without policy-speak. He is doing all he can do at this time.If we want to really help .. then, regardless of your religious

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In all the chaos of Katrina I completely failed to remember that my Domain Hosting company, DirectNIC.com is located in New Orleans .. I didn't know 'where' exactly until a few minutes ago when I went to their site to check on a Domain. BOOM! Right there in front of me was the announcement of how they were dealing with Katrina's aftermath.DirectNIC is on the 11th floor of an office building right

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As I mentioned yesterday, good friend and collegue, Dan Small and his wife Shivani were in a near fatal crash of their SUV and trailer on Tuesday of this week, on I-94 in northern Ohio.They survived miraculously with no more than minor scrapes and bruises. But they have lost their 15-year old cat, Bobby. In the aftermath of first determining they were OK, then picking up the remains of their

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OK .. fellow travelers of the highway system .. how many times a week do you head out of your driveway with the safety of your seat-belt hanging from the door-jam of your vehicle? Well, for your sake and the sake of those along for the ride .. I hope NEVER!I received word late the other night - in an email - from Dan Small; TV-personality for Wisconsin Public TV's Outdoor Wisconsin, publisher of

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The O'fieldstream Blog is moving to our resident server. We will still be using Blogger as the blogging tool - and on a MONTHLY BASIS, publishing out to the our blogger account, but we are NOW PUBLISHING TO our our DOMAIN SERVER - on a DAILY BASIS.The same information that you've come to enjoy is being posted and published at the new location. This will now allow ALL elements of the

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Dan Small Outdoors: "My scream is still echoing...If you've ever hunted turkeys all day, had several opportunities to kill a bird, and then finally connected as the clock ticked down to quitting time, then you might have some idea how I felt when my young hunter, 13-year-old Mitch Heuple, lowered the boom on a 23-pound gobbler at 4:45 p.m. yesterday.When that tom went down, I barked, 'Pump it,

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Robert Winkler - Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban WildernessThere are few things that can bring you lasting joy. One of them is just spending time OUTDOORS OBSERVING.Robert Winkler has written a book that to me reflects in writing, what one of my favorite outdoor photographers - John Shaw has said for years and published in the American Photographer - where I was first

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Wisconsin Outdoor News ... Tips on a Safe Turkey Season ..by Dan SmallOh Man .. it's Gobbler Season again. My buddy, Dan Small with Dan Small Outdoors and the TV-talking-head for Outdoors Wisconsin, has written a slam-jam good article on saving your bacon when shooting turkey this Spring. Here's my personal 'hunting mantra' covering ALL hunting scenarios' Know Sex - Know Shot. No Sex - No ShotIt

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Photo from Happy Trails KennelThe road to success is paved in many ways -but teamwork is one of the most predominately important and hard to accomplish. To win takes courage, endurance, tenacity, resourcefulness, grit and a healthy dose of luck. All of these traits can play against teamwork... just as much as they are integral to it. So, when a team does succeed, it stands out. Stands tall.

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Cabela's Iditarod - 2005 Race Coverage Scdoris, Ellering recount Iditarod trip by Jon Little NOME, 1:30 p.m., March 18, 2005 When Rachael Scdoris’ dog team finally made it to Eagle Island, the Bend, Ore., dog musher was so wrung out from muscling the sled through soft snow that she cared for her team, shuffled over to a wall tent and collapsed into her sleeping bag. She didn’t move for hours.

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Kathy Chapoton praised at White Mountain Dogs rest in White MountainPhoto by Danny Seavey Mushers arriving at White Mountain are usually puzzled enough after enduring long runs at the end of along race. They're as tired as they will get. So imagine the odd feeling they must have had upon arriving at this second-to-last checkpoint in a snowstorm only to be greeted by virtually no one. No one,

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NOME, 11 p.m., March 16, 2005 Rachael Scdoris, who followed through on a childhood dream of running the Iditarod, despite being legally blind, has ended her first attempt more than halfway into the race. Scdoris opted to scratch at Eagle Island, one of the most remote and often bleakest points in any Iditarod." Cabela's Iditarod - 2005 Race Coverage: "Scdoris scratches at Eagle Island" ...

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Cabela's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race CoverageRobert Sørlie with his two lead dogs, Sox and Blue, at the finish line. Photo by Jeff Schultz.Sørlie holds off Iten to claim 2nd Iditarodby Jon LittleNOME, 10:30 a.m., Mar. 16, 2005Robert Sørlie broke trail for more than 500 miles in what surely must have been one of the most sweltering Iditarod’s ever, barely holding off an impressive late charge

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Cabela's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Coverage: "2005 Leaderboard 1 Robert Sorlie 2 Ed Iten 3 Mitch Seavey 4 Ramy Brooks 5 Bjornar Andersen 6 John Baker 7 Paul Gebhardt 8 Lance Mackey 9 Jessie Royer 10 Jeff King 11 Martin Buser 12 DeeDee Jonrowe 13 Aliy Zirkle 14 Doug Swingley 15 Jessica Hendricks Well folks, that's the standings on the Iditarod's Top 15 positions from the

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Cabela's Iditarod - 2005 Race Coverage: AWOL dog costs Buser a couple hoursby Jon LittleEAGLE ISLAND, 7 p.m., AST, March 12, 2005Martin Buser waves his arms in a kind of hula, indicating his sense of the ridiculous. Buser actually lost a dog on the way to Eagle Island. - Cabela's Iditarod - 2005 Race Coverage story 03.13.05-----------------------Well.. as I've said anything can happen on the Race

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I just visited the Cabela's Iditarod site and found this headline report on Marty Buser ... it's quite an interesting read! Take a read and enjoy the air of this musher with a real sense of the moment ... O'fieldstream

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The Iditarod: Seriously like REAL LIFEWell... I've definitely got the Iditarod fever - so I'm posting more about it. And I'm fixated on watching the performance of 4-time Idit winner Martin Buser.I always come in on the side of an under-dog, but who would have thought Marty would ever be an under-dog? But due to his hand injury - just a few days before the start of the 2005 Iditarod race - the

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Last year my wife, Debra and I - along with our good friends, Ed and Judy Hauser, were in Anchorage, Alaska for an annual church conference meeting. When we found out that the municple of Anchorage, AK was an available choose for attendance .. we jumped at the opportunity. This was the first time in Alaska for all of us and we will all attest - Anchorage was going to be interesting - but it what

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Should Wisconsin Allow Feral Cat Season? Updated: 4:41 PM Mar 7, 2005by ... Zac SchultzDane County: What is the best way to deal with the feral cat problem in Wisconsin? That's a question being asked of animal lovers, wildlife ecologists, and now hunters.The Conservation Congress is considering a proposal to hunt wild cats.A group called Friends of Ferals is working with the Dane County Humane

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Alerts - September/October 2002 Planet Newsletter - Sierra Club: "Fire Hysteria Clouds Wild Forest Effort By Tom Valtin CedarDespite a growing chorus of editorial skepticism from newspapers across the country about the Bush administration's pro-logging 'Healthy Forests Initiative,' the president and his Senate allies have been burning up the airwaves blaming environmental protection for this

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WKOW TV: "Sugar River Contaminated Sun 02-27-2005 , 9:27 pm Dozens of fish have turned up dead over the weekend in the West Branch of the Sugar River. A Dane County River just removed from a list of polluted waterways is contaminated again."

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QPR Institute: "For the general public,the QPR Institute and its over 1,200 certified trainers offer suicide prevention training throughout the United States. Schools, service clubs,fire departments, churches, youth groups, and hundreds of other organizations have received the QPR gatekeeper training program. In just over five years, more than 250,000 Americans in 40 states have received this

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We live in what has to be one of the most awkward times for our country - possibly ever. On one hand we are striving to rid the World of the menace of demonic terrorism. And, yet, on the other hand that same government is speeding pall mall toward the destruction of our very platform of life: our lands. our water. our air. How can this be? There is but one word that calls all of these together

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Weblog: "Four Generations Of Richeys. TRAVERSE CITY - The air was cool and the wind was up a bit but I chose to sit out this hunting day. It was a day I'll long remember because it was filled with love and promise as we greeted a new arrival in our family. There were four generations of Richeys gathered at our home today. My father, Lawrence, at 92 years old, is the patriarch of our family.

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From Blog The Road: "I wonder if anybody makes a surface bait with 3-foot wings and legs?" It's just not everyday that your read something like this. And then, it's not every day you get to read .. oh, wait just scaulded-dog minute! You do! You do get to read this .. every day - and sometimes twice a day. How? You ask ... (Ok .. .OK.. O K !! That's your cue .. !!!) How ? YOU ASK ... ???

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Another Box of Rocks ... maybe, maybe not 'Got a black magic woman Got a black magic woman I've got a black magic woman, got me so blind I can't see. That she's a black magic woman, she's trying to make a devil out of me.' -Carlos Santana I recently received a visit from a reader of the Thursday Morning Art Review who happened to be in the area on business and took the time to stop by. We'd

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One of my good friends - who also happens to be in the Outdoor Writing business - is Dan Small; noted outdoor writer, communicator and Wisconsin Public Television personality (Outdoor Wisconsin) and owner of DanSmallOutdoors.com. A few months ago, Dan began offering a platform for authors, artists and other communicators he comes across in his daily work and travels. He makes this delightful

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As the website says ..."No more little pictures. Show off your BIG ONES." I was just over on the Heartland Outdoorsman forum and came across a refereance to a site called Customfish.com and I must admit when I first saw it I thought it was another fiberglass/graphite mount maker. But no. These folks take your photos and blow them up - using the technology of digital imagery and large format

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Take note of the lineup - forming to the left - of O'fieldstream's Blogroll. Also NOTE the addition of the XML link to this blog. Click it and subscribe to O'fieldstream's Blog ... you'll be getting a lot more than you realize: NOT JUNK though! God don't make no junk - and we don't send no junk! I'll be adding more site-links each day. So return often to subscribe to the new listings. Please

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Mike Clifford (Heartland Outdoorsman) has posted an intersting treatise on the topic of water resource ownership, entitled, "Who Owns the Rivers". The information answers questions about river ownership, use and conservation. Here is the basic tenor of the piece: Following are answers to frequently-asked questions about federal law regarding public ownership, use, and conservation of rivers.

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From Mike Clifford - owner & moderator of the Hearland Outdoorsman Forum - comes and interesting twist on testing your ability to judge speed and distance .. ie, hitting an object x- distance away, with and object traveling n-speed. And Mike's spawned an interesting tweek to his challenge. Take a look and give it a try ... it grows on you. Practice your skills, or just see how long it takes you

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Well .. here we are on BLOGGER. We exist now on four (4) blogging platforms .. so we should be able to get the 'word' on OUTDOOR HERITAGE out to more people now. There is a lot more to say .. but that will wait for a while. This is the TEST PUBLISH. See y'all on the trails ... A. O'fieldstream

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