Blackberry Creek Dam Removal Update
Better Late than Never
To play catch up, you can read the past progress reports here. ____________ One of my goals for 2012 was to put up weekly updates on the removal of the…
Blackberry Creek Dam Removal Update
Illinois Gun Control Legislation in Progress
When I woke up this morning the last thing I really felt like thinking about was gun control. Being a gun owner, I had been dwelling on it enough ever…
My 2013 Fishing Resolution
In 2012 I got out fishing roughly 75 times. That's a very rough estimate and most likely on the low side, but for the sake of argument, I'll say 75.…
Bald Eagles in Yorkville Again
In the 1960's I had already assumed I would never see a bald eagle in the wild. I assumed that if I ever made it to my mid 50's, they…
Swimming upstream faster than the current… (part 1)
Over the last couple of days, Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Marc Miller has sent out a couple of email that reads like a State of the Union address…
Even Zombies Get the Fishing Blues
My daughter and I have a running joke about Zombies and the coming Zombie Apocalypse. So I shouldn't have been surprised when she gave me a Christmas gift. A calendar.…
North Zone Waterfowl – Ducks Done but There’s Still Geese
Wrote this on December 10th and never did anything with it… _______ Some waterfowl observations. For the first couple of weeks of the waterfowl season, it sounded like a war…
Possum, It’s What’s for Dinner
Took a drive along a little used creek road today and while rounding a bend, spotted a hawk chowing down on a possum. Even on a little used road, sitting…
I tried to avoid writing about Newtown, but failed
August 1966, when I was 10 years old, was the first time I learned that human beings were capable of going out and randomly killing those around them. Some of…