State Ramps Up the Fight Against Exotic Plants Texas is ramping up its efforts in the Pineywoods ecoregion of East Texas to fight the invasion of aquatic species that pose significant threats to the state’s environment […]
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Santa Clouser ast Christmas, while sifting through my usual complement of soot, switches and lumps of coal, I found a small package. It was addressed from a fly fishing friend. I opened the box. Inside were five […]
Family Lore y family’s dynamics changed in late December, a day before the final page of this past year’s calendar flipped. My mother passed away then, leaving me the oldest of the Pikes. Not of all […]
May Your SpiritWild Run Strong & Free Forever re we having SpiritWild fun yet or what? I sure hope everyone is patient and understanding with the old guitar playing backstrapper, for spinning wildly as I am from the […]
Molon Labe t’s rare to run into someone one who hasn’t heard of the Battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas I, the Spartan king, stood with a small force at a mountain pass called “Hot Gates” in 480 BC […]
How El Nino May Rip Off the Flounder Run El Niño. It sounds like some sort of villain in a Godzilla movie or one of the masked Luchadors in Mexican wrestling. In Spanish, El Niño means […]
Bar Fish, a.k.a. Yellow Bass, are Like Candy to Lunker Largemouths It seems like it happens every year, usually more than once. A crappie fisherman armed with bantamweight tackle heads out to one of the major bridge crossings at […]
An Interview with The Snakemaster, Austin Stevens Rattlesnakes are real attention grabbers in the great outdoors. Serpents can be the last thing on an outdoors lover’s mind—then a rasping rattle sounds from the nearby brush, and it is all […]
Gun Control am a firm believer in reasonable gun control. Now, before you get your tonsils in an uproar, let me explain my idea of gun control. My old Border Patrol shooting instruction used to say that […]