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2,500 Pigs Join Debate Over Farms vs. Scenery

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Some observations from a creek sacrifice zone (you know, where your fast food, Easter hams, and corn ethanol grow): Phosphorus is one of the leading contributors to stream degradation. Interesting considering the world has, according to some resource experts, about 50 years of phosphorus remaining f...

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Al, Thanks for the trip log and the Google Earth file of access sites. I have been curious about the upper stretches on some of the creeks, including the Big Piney, Bryant, and North Fork. I may be bending your ear about those. My hat is off to you guys and gals! You pulled off a ton of paddling oft...

Wally, I have a BG Bell Flashfire. I have paddled it on Jack's Fork and Big Creek in MO. Handled both fine. Took a pretty big hit on a boulder in one of the shut in, rock gardens on Big Creek. No visible damage. The clear gel coat will scratch easily on rocks. Most BG boats are really beautiful craf...

"We are sure that when retirement begins, childhood restarts" Good thing my shoulders have hit the skid cause I might just be tempted to resurrect that atavistic childhood sport of making a tomato meet car traveling 60mph. God, if one life itself ain't a couple million years of human evolu...

Dave and Cowper,

Thanks for the response to my inquiry.

I have to admit that I have considered the hand cannon option. My arm gun just ain't the rock thrower that it used to be ("Mr. Umpire, Mr. Umpire! That kid gonna knock all our kids' teeth out!". I was fast, but a bit wild.)

Curious: Can anyone relate at least one documented incident of a hostile encounter between maleantes and innocents in natural settings in Arkansas or Missouri? Robbery, theft, beatings, killings, etc.? I don't doubt such events, but just wonder about the risk and whether it is high enough to worry a...