Articles filed under Outdoors
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Outdoors notes: Snowy owl sightingsDec 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Reports of snowy owl sightings are spreading across the nation’s northern tier this winter, with large numbers spotted around the Great Lakes as well as the East Coast a...
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Mike Jackson on the outdoors: A dog's taleDec 28, 2011 11:00 pm - I am a relentless sentimentalist. I'd like to keep everything how it was in 1951, or sometime thereabouts. I want to come home and find my mother there. I'd race to the...
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Getting a healthy start on a little holiday dreamingDec 20, 2011 11:00 pm - I stood on the front lawn decked out like a sanitation worker, garbed in tan and brown. My magic wand was my trusty 6-weight fly rod and reel. My upper chest region was ...
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Outdoors notesDec 20, 2011 11:00 pm - Those December hallucinations are still driving me nuts. With the non-typical area weather we've encountered, I keep expecting we will get dumped on to the tune of 2-3 f...
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Mike Jackson on the outdoors: Lindner's talesDec 13, 2011 11:00 pm - Right now I feel as if I'm part of a group of youngsters sitting in front of the fireplace listening to a relative read stories from the past. All of us "kids" hunger ...
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Mike Jackson book review on “Paddle North”Dec 06, 2011 11:00 pm - I grew up in a Chicago apartment that had wall-to-wall book cases. There were all sorts of books related to the sciences, philosophy, medicine and, of course, the outdoo...
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Outdoors notes: Fishing tackle controversyDec 06, 2011 11:00 pm - It’s wait-and-see time again with the Environmental Protection Agency. That federal agency was again petitioned by the Center for Biological Diversity and two other grou...
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It's time to convince you to try ice fishingNov 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Winter time does strange things to us here in the Midwest. Quite often our tendencies lead us to making excuses so as to just sit inside and complain it's too cold and t...
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Outdoors notes: fishing updateNov 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Here we are once again, between the devil and the deep blue sea, so to speak. And it all has to do with an unusual weather pattern. The goofy weather conditions has area...
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Hunters take 66,500 deer over 1st weekendNov 22, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois hunters harvested more than 66,500 deer during the state’s opening firearm season. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says the prelimina...