Outdoor recreation is on track for another record-setting year. In 2022, U.S. national parks logged more than 300 million visits – and that means a lot more people on roads and trails.
Few activities are as satisfying to me, a deer hunter, as to have driven the last nail and sawed the last plank on a deer stand I built myself. I honestly think I get as much satisfaction and enjoyment out of practicing my crude brand of carpentry on a deer stand I built myself as the hunting experience.
Sunday afternoon, Kay and I were driving home after a special Father’s Day lunch in town, and as I glanced toward the pasture across the road from our home, something caught my eye. It was a tiny fawn standing within a few yards of the pasture fence.
Having lost power for several hours last weekend due to a storm, memories emerged of a column I wrote years ago for Louisiana Conservationist magazine. With your indulgence, I’m sharing that column with you.
The orchard oriole is a bird that has always fascinated me. The black and burnt orange color combinations of the male balanced with the olive green and yellow of the female make for an extremely attractive pair.
My first glimpse of a bald eagle in Louisiana took place when I was just a kid and the one I saw was sitting on a nest made of a huge pile of sticks and branches high up in a big pine tree not far from my home in Goldonna.
The National Marine Manufacturers Association ( NMMA), the leading trade association representing North American recreational boat, marine engine and accessory manufacturers, announced this week the growing economic impact of the recreational boating industry across the United States.
I’m already looking forward to June 3 when the next full moon makes its appearance. Out where we live in the country, there is something mesmerizing to drive east down our road at dusk and see the full moon pulling itself up from the wood line. If it’s a high pressure, low humidity day, the moon is so bright its easy to see features on the moon’s surface.
She’s old, gotten fairly long in the tooth and like most of us, tends to slow down once this happens. There is hope, however, for one of this area’s favorite lakes, Lake Claiborne.