From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Happy 75 Willie!

by Wayne Mumford April 30, 2008

Nope, thats not someone’s rope in the campfire! That’s just Willie celebrating #75 out on the trail in Europe. No dust is settling on this guy.

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Improving the view…

by Wayne Mumford April 29, 2008

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Joe’s Pond ice out contest

by Wayne Mumford April 28, 2008

Forget the rodent that does, or does not see his shadow as a harbinger of spring. In West Danville, Vermont they have come up with something a little more fun. The “Joe’s Pond ice out contest“. What started as a topic among locals in the 80’s has become a fast growing event, even in international [...]

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Pike, they aren’t as sexy as trout, but they sure are fun.

by Wayne Mumford April 26, 2008

Its like comparing the hot, sexy blonde with the girl in the checkered dress, high stockings and thick glasses. One’s been hit on so many times she doesn’t even know, or care, that you’re actually making a pass. The other is tearing you to shreds before shes finished her first drink.
So it goes with Pike [...]

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Miguel Lasa Photography

by Wayne Mumford April 26, 2008

Good Professional Bird Photographers amaze me. I have tried it before and its a total discipline all of its own. You marry yourself to it or move on. More so than most photography, everything happens in an instant and then it is gone. I recently received an email with a link to photographer, Miguel Lasa’s [...]

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Presidential campaign critically elevates Greenhouse Gasses

by Wayne Mumford April 24, 2008

An interesting aside to the story about Nessie and Loch Ness, scientists have noticed a dramatic rise in green house gasses during this election year.

It appears that areas that are receiving the most campaign activity are also seeing huge spikes in green house gas levels. Initially scientists thought that most of the gas emissions were [...]

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Loch Ness Monster missing, presumed dead

by Wayne Mumford April 24, 2008

After all these years of eluding cameras, contraptions and people, “Nessie” the Loch Ness monster may have fallen to the insidious evil, “global warming”. Robert Rines who has pursued the creature in the Loch for 37 years and is about to give up the hunt, fears that “Nessie” might have succumbed to the effects of [...]

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Montana weekly snow pack change

by Wayne Mumford April 23, 2008

No surprise here, its been snowing just about everywhere in the state this last week. If you have a permit for the Smith this year you are looking pretty good right now. The Bitteroots have been getting clobbered all season, good news for that river and the lower Clark Fork.
Most of the lakes here northwest [...]

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