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Carving a paddle and "signing it" is a practice encouraged by the park to reduce carving up the shelters with names and dates of...

Likely it just bumps into shore and sticks for a while, looking like any other innocuous peninsula until it breaks free and starts...

And whenever you're near water taking said equipment with you every time you step out of the vehicle. When seconds count it doesn't do...

Sort of makes a paddler want to carry a throw bag of rope with them whenever they're near water, whether they have a boat along or not.

Some of the dams (many of?) were put in just as economic stimulus for the area (sort of like the CCC kept some people employed during...

Working at the Chicagoland Canoe Base in Chicago back in the day (early '70s for me), sitka spruce was used for the birch bark replica...

Haven't heard. We don't know the guy. My wife works at the local food bank and heard the story there. The standing joke at the time was...

A farmer near us had a cow killed by lightning in an evening thunderstorm (mostly dry) a couple nights ago. I haven't heard that there...

Glenn, feel free to move to jokes thread if you prefer it there, or if potential copyright bothers you (from a 1965 collection in a book...

Or an American Pronghorn an "antelope". Antelope are native to only the "old" world -- which happens to be the same age as the "new"...

Sigh. Lawyers these days! No true cedars are native to North America, but I happen to have several planted on my own property, so to...