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It’s a new water year
That time when rivers and streams are at their lowest, when fish- for the most part- are done spawning and growing for the year. When the leaves start falling in temperate climates, kicking off the...
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First of October.
I like when tall clouds catch light from beyond the horizon, and finding bumblebees asleep on blue spires of lobelia. It rained a bit, cooled off a bit, and the leaves are just beginning to drop- so I...
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2023 in the books.
It’s the last day of 2023, and the sun can’t decide if it’ll come out. Chores are finished, and in a bit I’ll kindle a fire and start the hoppin’ john for a low-key evening with the dog and a toast to...
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nostalgia.
A couple inches of snow on the ground and a couple prints, back from the frame shop, ready to hang in the home office. First up, a pair of orangespotted sunfish. One of my first summer jobs was...
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How the repeal of Chevron deference could hurt your favorite fishery.
The US Supreme Court issued rulings in two cases last week, drastically limiting the ability of federal agencies to rely on agency expertise when developing regulations. The Supreme Court’s decision...
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Cicadas, we hardly knew ye.
They came in fits and starts, given a cold snap and wet weather earlier this spring. Then one afternoon, while mowing the lawn, I found an empty exoskeleton clinging to the grass. Then another. Every...
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Last Best Streams- #322
I needed a social media cleanse after an online argument with a kid convinced everyone between the east coast and the Rockies resents biodiversity and wild places. It wasn’t true, I said, listing off...
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On Crayfish.
I don’t know if I’ve ever written just about crayfish- odd, given the outsize role they’ve played in my life. One of my earliest outdoor memories is standing ankle deep in a gravel bottomed Ozark...
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