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Artificial Intelligence
A decade from now, when coastal anglers are fishing over artificial reefs loaded with speckled trout and redfish, they may have Mike Voisin to thank.[…]
Opinions & Responses
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Coastal restoration
Coastal restoration sucks.
It really does.[…]
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State set to waste chunk of BP money
In 1997, Billie Bob Harrell Jr. figured he was set for life after winning $31 million in the Texas lottery. It was more money, surely, than he could spend in the rest of his living years.[…]
Opinions & Responses
Ground zero flood of 2011
When you see Morgan City as the first subject on all of the national news channels, you know another disaster is about to begin.[…]
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Were closures a boon to fisheries?
Conservation of renewable natural resources is a tricky thing.
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Random thoughts on BP’s oil spill
I wouldn’t think twice about eating a fish, crab, oyster or shrimp harvested from anywhere along Louisiana’s coast right now. The harmful elements of crude oil evaporate quickly.[…]
Opinions & Responses
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For me, election hinges on two issues
When I’m looking at candidates, trying to decide who should get my vote in any election, there are two things I examine that are more important to me than any others.[…]
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Days are numbered for gun ownership
While most Second Amendment supporters threw parties and danced in the streets after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Washington D.C. v. Heller case, I was overcome by a very different emotion.[…]
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Duck opener is like Christmas morning
The scene was nearly too much to take in.
A flock of seven gray ducks rode a 15-m.p.h. tailwind from east to west about a hundred yards to the south of our blind. Their flapping silhouettes were the perfect accent to the rich-blue sky that served as a canvas far more beautiful than anything ever painted by man.[…]
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Levee blockade a mixed bag for coast
There was some good news and some bad news coming out of Washington last month regarding the Bayou State’s coast and the future viability of life in South Louisiana.[…]
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Has it been a quarter century already?
The fleur de lis, French for the “flower of life,” has been a symbol that represents the rich French culture of Louisiana ever since La Salle claimed a large part of the central continent for King Louis XIV in 1682.[…]
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Ridiculous river ruling awakens giant
Jefferson was just one of several founding fathers who argued in the Federalist Papers and elsewhere that the Judiciary Branch should be, by design, the weakest element of our three-pronged system of government.[…]
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Are conditions good? Then just go fishing
There’s universal agreement among coastal anglers from the Pearl River to the Sabine that speckled trout fishing is just about as good now as it’s ever been.[…]
Columns
Two shooting stars for sporting clays
The massive 6×6 bull elk strolled regally from the oak grove, walked down the bank and plunged into the water, laying down and caking itself in the cooling mud.
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Marine Electronics
Maps getting incredibly sophisticated
Computer power and memory storage are gaining speed and capacity while losing bulk, and I’m happy to report that these evolutionary steps are impacting the world of marine electronics.[…]