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There is a remote little gravel bar along the river where I love to camp, quite a walk from the road. I parked my pickup and headed down there, determined to see it as a new year comes, in a bleak, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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1/7/26
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I haven’t seen many ducks but it is duck season and I can’t wait to go out with my Lab to try to find some. If you have never owned a Labrador, you have missed out on one of the greatest things …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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1/6/26
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Right now in the Ozarks, there are eagles everywhere, and each spring more and more of them nest here. If you spend a lot of time outdoors, you know where eagles nest, and it is very easy to see …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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12/23/25
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Right now in the Ozarks, there are eagles everywhere, and each spring more and more of them nest here. If you spend a lot of time outdoors, you know where eagles nest, and it is very easy to see …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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12/17/25
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The opening of the doe season was only a few hours away and the wind was blowing through the oaks up here on Lightnin’ Ridge. “Shucks” I thought to myself, “There won’t …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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12/10/25
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The fire had burned down in the fireplace, and it was a trifle warm, so I stepped out on the back porch to feel the coolness of the oncoming winter, looking down on the dark river valley. The moon …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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12/10/25
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Deer hunters need to know that some conservation agents come to the homes of those who telecheck large antlered deer and ask to see the place where their deer was killed. If a hunter complies they …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/26/25
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I have a friend who grew up in Wisconsin who was a very good deer hunter. He liked to bow hunt in early October where large unharvested cornfields stood...his name was Al Narveson. Al …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/19/25
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What an adventure I had recently in Canada! I took my daughter Christy Lynn to Tinker Helseth’s place for a week of fishing in Lake of the Woods in mid-October. We drove all day, pulling …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/12/25
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We decided to take a short float trip one November afternoon several years ago, down the river bordering some public hunting land. We have killed several deer in such a manner; just drifting …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/5/25
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What a different creature Canada geese have become, with so many of them becoming non-migrators and just staying where they are, raising goslings on every little farm pond where cattle graze on …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/29/25
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Dennis Whiteside is a float-fishing guide who travels down a dozen or more streams across the Ozarks of Missouri each year, through all seasons. He also is someone very knowledgeable about wild …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/22/25
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This is a dangerous time for copperheads. Many move onto pavement or concrete at night seeking the warmth it has absorbed. Some lady wrote me a letter about the little hog-nose snake I found a week …
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10/21/25
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What a banner year it is for walnuts and acorns and hickories. There are nuts everywhere! If I can just get my daughters and grandsons out here on Lightnin’ Ridge picking up walnuts …
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10/16/25
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