I keep track of all the birds I have seen on this wilderness ridge where I live and there is a huge list after living here more than 30 years. Several are very rare. The rarest of all showed up about …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/29/23
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The other day I crossed the Roubidoux River and thought about Lane Davis. Lane was the longtime owner and editor of the Houston Herald newspaper and he hired me to paddle him down the Roubidoux, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/22/23
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There’s an old model ‘97 Winchester pump shotgun hanging on my office wall. It is old and scarred, a long-barreled relic from the good old days of my boyhood. In the fall, when the Ozarks …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/15/23
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I talk to outdoorsmen around the Ozarks it is amazing how ignorant they are about their rights as hunters and fishermen. The greater percentage of those I talk to wrongly believe that agents can come …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/8/23
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A couple of weeks ago I was talking with guide in Ontario who got a good laugh out of the bear hunting which forbids using bait. He said that without bait, few bears would ever be killed anywhere. In …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/1/23
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In mid-October, Lake of the Woods, Ontario, looked like it was mid-September; no red and yellow foliage to amount to much, just green hillsides and water warmer than I had ever seen it. The …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/25/23
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Rotten luck, that’s all you can call it! The day before my birthday, in mid-October, I was fishing in Canada, way out in the Lake of the Woods, and found a great spot for walleye in a remote …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/18/23
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There is a special place I visit to bow-hunt and get away from people and this awful world. It is on a lake and I get there by boat. I know that bass fishing is often very good on the nearby lake …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/11/23
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Fisheries biologists started creating hybrid fish years ago. It hasn’t always worked out the way they thought it would. The cross of walleyes and saugers, produce something they called a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/4/23
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I was on Lake Wappapello this past week with an old-days college roommate, Darrell Hamby, of Patterson. We were fishing for crappie and reliving old times. That lake is something and though there …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/27/23
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People need to know about new diseases that result from outdoor living. One of them is known as the ‘Alpha-gal’ syndrome, a sometimes fatal disease people get from the spotted wood tick …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/20/23
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After all those years of joking about being a grizzled old veteran hunter, I now are one and it ain’t no joking matter!
I hunted blue-winged teal during that very first special teal …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/13/23
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Dove season is upon us and there are two or three reasons to avoid it as far as I am concerned. For one thing, I don’t want to hunt in crowds, and I don’t like to get sweat on my shotgun, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/30/23
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There are some problems this time of year for an outdoorsman who takes to the woods. It is the beginning of a more aggressive situation with copperheads due to the heat and skin-shedding time. And …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/16/23
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I see lots of things outdoors that are hard to believe, but what I saw this past week is one of the weirdest things ever. It was outdoors just outside my workshop-fishing- hunting-book storage and …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/9/23
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I have been contacted by several readers about the Buffalo River float trip I am going to conduct on Saturday, Oct. 28. It is going to be an all day interpretive trip on the river celebrating the …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/2/23
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Fifty years ago this summer I was working at Buffalo River as a naturalist for the National Park Service. It was a grand time and I loved it. In October you can help me celebrate those days and my …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/26/23
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We had a good meeting at Buffalo, on Sunday to kick off our “Common Sense Conservationist” membership drive. We had representatives from Owensville, Ellington, Farmington, Conway, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/19/23
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Along the Ozark streams, a favorite place of mine nowadays, as it gets hot and muggy, there comes the cry of a strange type of crow, a kind of caw that sounds like the black rascal is choking on …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/5/23
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When I think of all the fascinating things I have seen in this natural world I have been exploring well over 40 years, one of the most fascinating is a little snake that my grandmother told me was a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/28/23
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