Hunting Headlines
| August 10, 2008 |
| The Falls Of The Brazos |
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During the mid 1950?s, July and August found me in Falls County, Texas working for my Uncle, Shelton Gafford. There he owned and leased thousands of acres of farm and ranch land, a dairy and some grain storage sheds that he leased from Billy Sol Estes, who was a famous crook/politician of the 40?s and 50s? in Texas. Each day, part of my job, if the Brazos River wasn?t ?up?, was to cross it on a low water crossing at The Falls and take the short drive, 5 miles, to his Perry Creek place, check his cattle for screw worms, a terrible pestilence that hounded our State?s cattle industry until millions of sterile, male screw worm Flies were released in the 1960?s. This procedure, developed by ...
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Read the full story at Outdoor Odyssey
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| August 10, 2008 |
| PETITION: No Mines in Waterton-Glacier |
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The following link is a petition targeted to the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., asking to stop any plans for mountain top coal removal and methane extraction from the pristine park region. (Of note to fly fishermen should be the threat to bull trout and westslope cutthroats.) Here’s some of the backstory. Here’s an Associated Press story. [...]
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Read the full story at Fishing Jones
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| August 10, 2008 |
| Outdoor notebook - Topeka Capital Journal |
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Outdoor notebook Topeka Capital Journal, KS - 7 hours ago By KDWP Reports The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks reports there were 19 hunting accidents in 2007, with one fatality. Lexie Salmon, 10, shot her ...
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| August 10, 2008 |
| Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly |
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Males start as this vibrant green, but as they age they turn a powder blue. You can see a photo I took of a blue Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly here: Arkansas River Dragonfly
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Read the full story at The Shed Antler
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| August 10, 2008 |
| Outdoors Calendar - Denver Post |
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Outdoors Calendar Denver Post, CO - 8 hours ago Big-game hunting . Bass Pro Shops Fall Hunting Classic: 11 am-4 pm Seminars on deer, elk and African game with Beverly Wunderlich, Lance Schul, Stan Grebe, ...
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