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When it comes to politics, especially in Louisiana, one really can't make some of this stuff up. Absurd political conduct has a long history in the Bayou…
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What a glorious event it was, this eclipse of 2017. With family and friends we gathered in a remote sagebrush meadow along the South Fork of the Payette…
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Every autumn a multitude of people in the northern hemisphere contributes billions of dollars to local economies in order to look at brightly colored…
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At the turn of the 20th century, the science of wildlife management was in its infancy. Reeling from the catastrophic human-induced losses of America's…
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One definition of the word 'lurk' is to lie in wait in a place of concealment. Among those birds that spend time along Louisiana bayous, one species in…
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Wild critters walk, fly and swim among us Louisiana folks. While all are interesting, a few are downright strange, or at least strange looking. The…
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In the dog days of summer after the fresh-split firewood reeking with the sweet acerbity of tannin is stacked in a neat pile close by the house, we become…
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In teaching kids how to fish, one of the first obstacles that must be overcome is what has to be an innate urge to throw rocks and sticks into the water…
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While cleaning out wood duck boxes in anticipation of the upcoming nesting season, a biologist of Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge recently found a…
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There is little doubt that most indigenous cultures perceived their connectivity to and place on the landscape very differently than modern society. The…