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SPOT Global Phone
SPOT LLC recently announced the new SPOT Global Phone, a portable, easy-to-use and data-enabled satellite phone that provides crystal-clear voice quality with no noticeable delay or echo.[…]
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Costa’s Realtree AP camo sunglasses
Costa has added Realtree AP Camo as a pattern option to a number of their frame styles, including Fisch, Double Haul, Fantail, Blackfin and Zane.[…]
Columns
The lunker parade
My introduction to Toledo Bend was almost 20 years ago this month when I drove to the reservoir for a Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association meeting. Former Louisiana Sportsman editor Todd Masson and I jumped on John Dean’s boat, and spent a broiling-hot day dropping plastics into 30 feet of water.[…]
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Clean BBQ makes public grills clean
Do you like camping or picnics, but shy away from the grills in parks and campgrounds? […]
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Vandals strike LDWF equipment on Atchafalaya Delta WMA
A Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries bulldozer and utility vehicle were vandalized recently on the Big Island portion of the Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area in St. Mary Parish.[…]
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Summer boating
While Louisiana has thousands of boats on the water on any given day of the year, recreational boating activity peaks during the summer months.[…]
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Golden Meadow man dies in boating crash
A 29-year-old Golden Meadow man died early Wednesday from injuries sustained in a boating crash in Lafourche Parish, authorities said[…]
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Ammo shortages nothing new
The head of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service declared in a news release that the “great game of hoarding” ammunition by “greedy individuals” was unsportsmanlike.[…]
Coastal Projects
Coastal Master Plan ‘worth following,’ state’s top restoration official says
According to Dr. E.L. Corthell, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the breakdown of the Mississippi River Delta’s coastal wetlands is in part a debate of commercial use and flood control versus conservation. It’s about short-term benefits versus long-term benefits and finding a way to battle a rising sea and disappearing earth.[…]
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Deville man OK after long night lost in the woods on Dewey Wills WMA
After a 15-hour search this weekend, authorities rescued a Deville man who got lost Saturday on the Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area in LaSalle Parish.[…]
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LDWF now accepting bids for houseboat mooring sites at Atchafalaya Delta WMA
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is accepting bids for 40 percent of the available houseboat mooring sites at the Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area in St. Mary Parish. […]
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Outspoken Journalist
Bob Marshall has never been professionally bashful. Some loved him for it; some, well, didn’t love him so much for it.[…]
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Bob Marshall and politics
Probably nothing that Bob Marshall did could make people pull the hair out their heads more than his coverage of political issues. I decided to take the bull by the horns and just asked him, “Bob, what about you and left wing politics?”[…]
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The new Bob Marshall
“My real goal when I left the newspaper,” Marshall said, “was to find a way to cover coastal issues better. I retired from the Picayune; I didn’t retire from journalism.[…]
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Bob Marshall’s predictions
With 41 years in outdoors writing under his belt, Bob Marshall has a wealth of experience. Here’s what he had to say about the future of what he holds dear.[…]
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Marshall’s early years
Bob Marshall grew up in what is now called “Old Metairie,” a suburb of New Orleans.[…]