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Ben_Moyer

You can live by a river for a lifetime; you can drive over it on bridges, hear its murmur as background noise, even draw water up from it through a network of pipes, and never give thought to where it came from or where itĢƵ headed, never ponder what that stream means to your community, to ...

Spring offers so many outdoor delights that it can be tough to choose which merits whatever free time you can devote to pleasure and relaxation. Lots of outdoor folks in our area hunt turkeys in the spring, others fish for trout. Another ardent element does their hunting with a penknife and a ...

File this under “silver lining.” While most area residents will be annoyed, disgusted, even terrified by the hordes of periodic cicadas that will soon saturate this region, one group awaits the insect legions with glee. ItĢƵ those fly fishermen again. Viewed always by the non-fishing ...

Excepting the Monday after Thanksgiving when deer season opens, yesterday marked the most anticipated day in this areaĢƵ outdoor year. Trout fishing kicked off in all streams and lakes that can support these discriminating and desirable fish.Our regionĢƵ menu of waters offers something for ...

ItĢƵ not for everyone. But the small remnant corps for whom it is are fine with that. They get the night woods to themselves.Hunting raccoons with treeing hounds, shortened to “‘coon hunting” in common parlance, is a rural American tradition with roots reaching back to colonial times. ...

Poaching an elusive term

Poaching is an elusive term, loosely defined depending on time, place and context. The word arose in Europe in the early 1600s, when it was applied to anyone who dared trespass on the royal forest to take the kingĢƵ deer, salmon or grouse.Today, the word is widely used to describe large-scale ...