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So much for our planned trip to Quetico in September. About half the area we were going to paddle is now burned over. Might be able to...

@NoelCanoeDad should be able to comment on this. I’ve seen a bunch of his young girls paddling small solo canoes. The Curtis ladybugs...

Back to canoeing... 😜 I recently had an interesting discussion with a retailer that sells and rents canoes, kayaks, and SUPs. I asked...

Halfway in to our destination in the BWCA, the plastic grip of my recreational Zav broke off in my hand. I assume it was the result of...

Once you’re comfortable with prying and on side side slips, try combining them to slip one direction and then slip the other direction...

I find it difficult to understand how these killing machines are allowed to remain. I know it will cost a fortune to retrofit (or...

I owned a Clipper Sea-1 canoe (which is much like a Kruger Sea Wind), which is designed for big, open water paddling, where the wind and...

The shallow V design does work well to keep a canoe tracking, but I like the feel of a shallow arch better. The flats on either side of...

I know they don’t mean anything, really. Dark sky reserves are way down the ladder of priority when it comes to policy making. I don’t...

We have Google Pixel 9 Pro (Android) phones with satellite texting. It's nice to have because cell tower coverage is spotty in many...

Growth dynamics also play a big role here - conifers in general grow more slowly than do deciduous trees, meaning they take far more...

I'd be hesitant to reach in there for a bait minnow.

Why are the oldest and tallest trees all conifers? I assume that you mean individual trees because some of the oldest tree organisms are...

To try to answer your question, conifers have highly evolved vascular systems. What limits tree height is the Turgor pressure required...

And then there's Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) which was originally thought to be a hemlock (Tsuga), thus, the subsequent...