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Craig Springer

Santa Fe
As seen in: Albuquerque Journal, Texas Co-op Power, Fishing Tackle Retailer, Sporting Classics Daily, Shooting Industry Magazine, Field Ethos Journal, Ohio Cooperative Living
Covers:  Outdoors, nature, conservation, fishing, hunting, history, Americana, general interests.
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March is the Cruelest Month | Field Ethos

March is the Cruelest Month | Field Ethos

Field Ethos Journal — By Craig Springer So long as I have a mind that thinks, I will remember my brother Gary...
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Accountability demanded at Estancia Valley Classical Academy

Accountability demanded at Estancia Valley Classical Academy

route66.news — Enrollment at Estancia Valley Classical Academy in Edgewood, a public charter school, has drastically declined. So has state funding. Five teachers were recently put out of a job and two went part-time. All seven volunteered for the personnel action.
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Indians, Hunting Dogs & The Rise of the NFL Halftime Show | Field Ethos

Indians, Hunting Dogs & The Rise of the NFL Halftime Show | Field Ethos

Field Ethos Journal — By Craig Springer Leather helmet football played in the driving snow on a muddy gridiron must have really...
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From winter-deep pools, Rio Grande cutthroat trout call

From winter-deep pools, Rio Grande cutthroat trout call

Albuquerque Journal — From the column: Neil Young's "Decade" album was among my first pieces of music on vinyl. Not until well into middle age did I come to understand the song "Helpless." Neil Young is his own genre - an acquired taste like Dylan, organ meat or Pabst Blue Ribbon.
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Celebrating 75 Years of Anglers' Contributions to Conservation

Celebrating 75 Years of Anglers' Contributions to Conservation

virginia.gov — Whether it's catch-and-release or hook-and-cook, fishing is conservation-and has been for 75 years-codified in federal law with a hook in Virginia history.
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Winter Spirits

Winter Spirits

Ohio Cooperative Living — The colorful northern cardinal lives over the entirety of Ohio, and that alone is reason enough for the state legislative assembly to name it the official state bird. There are other meritorious reasons that call forth warm approval and high regard.
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Boulder dash

Boulder dash

Ohio Cooperative Living — If you need a reminder that the world is held together by stone, then consider Ohio's basement. You cannot see it except in the long strands of bored-out cores that have been extracted from hundreds of feet below the earth's surface.
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Remembering Rafinesque

Remembering Rafinesque

Ohio Cooperative Living — The family moved to Italy to escape the terrors of the French Revolution. It was there that a self-educated Constantine came of age and took an ardent interest in natural history and languages, which would come to have its consequences in the names of organisms - through the eastern U.S., in Ohio, and even into the American Southwest.
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Oh no, the mistletoe!

Oh no, the mistletoe!

Ohio Cooperative Living — Like the Christmas celebration itself, hanging mistletoe in your house is rooted in ancient tradition. But before we get to that, it's worth noting that mistletoe has no real roots - it's a parasite, making its way in life by living off of rooted trees.
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Pittman-Robertson, Trapping, and Furbearer Conservation | Hunting Wire

Pittman-Robertson, Trapping, and Furbearer Conservation | Hunting Wire

Hunting Wire — Photo Credit: Craig Springer. Trapping is among our oldest skillsets-opportunities abound for newcomers You descend from a long line of trappers. Virtually all your ancestors at some point down the line have snared or trapped animals for food, for clothing, or for tools or trade.
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What is that Blue Star in the Window?

What is that Blue Star in the Window?

Ohio Cooperative Living — You might have seen a service flag: a blue star (or stars) on a field of white, surrounded by a red border - hanging in the picture window of a seemingly random home in the neighborhood or in a shop window of a downtown building.
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From A Coupon To Olympic Gold - Shooting Industry Magazine

From A Coupon To Olympic Gold - Shooting Industry Magazine

Shooting Industry Magazine — Darrell Pace, a three-time Olympian and two-time individual gold medalist, began his archery career thanks to a coupon he received to receive a discounted bow lesson.
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Good Water-Good Living - Fishing Tackle Retailer

Good Water-Good Living - Fishing Tackle Retailer

Fishing Tackle Retailer — Funding for Clean Vessel Act starts with excise taxes paid by the manufacturers of fishing tackle and on motorboat fuel via the Sportfish Restoration Act and helps improves the quality of life for all.
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The Hillsdale Interview: Craig Springer

The Hillsdale Interview: Craig Springer

transistor.fm — Craig Springer is a fish biologist and writer with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and former editor of the agency's Eddies magazine. He's the editor of America's Bountiful Waters: 150 Years of ...
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Dropping Hillsdale affiliation undermines charter school's motto

Dropping Hillsdale affiliation undermines charter school's motto

Albuquerque Journal — The Estancia Valley Classical Academy's governing council quietly abandoned the school's decade-long member affiliation with Hillsdale College, leaving its principal, faculty, students, and the council itself, bereft of resources.
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Daddy longlegs

Daddy longlegs

Ohio Cooperative Living — That's why they are also known as harvestmen - for their gregarious nature at harvest time. They live throughout Ohio, on the farm, in the forest, in the suburbs, in your gardens, and in every corner of every city. And they are good to have around.
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From a Bow Shop Coupon to Olympic Archery Gold - Twice! | Archery Business

From a Bow Shop Coupon to Olympic Archery Gold - Twice! | Archery Business

Archery Business — Team USA's Darrell Pace earned a place on four Olympic teams, four Pan-Am teams, and seven world teams; he's also the only archer to ever hold all the world records at the same time.
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Pittman-Robertson Is For Beaver, Too - Shooting Industry Magazine

Pittman-Robertson Is For Beaver, Too - Shooting Industry Magazine

Shooting Industry Magazine — If ever there's an example of successful uses of Pittman-Robertson funds and wildlife restoration, it would be the unassuming beaver.
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Stepping Into the Same Stream Twice

Stepping Into the Same Stream Twice

Texas Co-op Power — Scientists work to restore habitat along Terlingua Creek in the Big Bend
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Commentary: Creel surveys reveal loads of information for Ohio fisheries - Outdoor News

Commentary: Creel surveys reveal loads of information for Ohio fisheries - Outdoor News

Outdoor News Radio — I spent eight months on that reservoir and interviewed thousands of anglers from all walks of life over that stretch of time.
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America's Bountiful Waters: 150 Years of Fisheries Conservation and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Serv...

America's Bountiful Waters: 150 Years of Fisheries Conservation and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Serv...

amazon.com — The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is the direct descendant of the U.S. Fish Commission, founded in 1871. In 2021, its Fish and Aquatic Conservation division marked its 150th anniversary, the oldest conservation agency in history. To commemorate this milestone, the USFWS published this compelling h...
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Frecklebelly Madtom, diminutive catfish threatened

Frecklebelly Madtom, diminutive catfish threatened

WTVC-TV ABC (Chattanooga, TN) — When you hear the word “catfish” it’s a safe bet your mind goes to river fishing at night for flathead catfish on the prowl, dunking worms for channel catfish i
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Shoal Bass Habits And Habitats Revealed - The Fishing Wire

Shoal Bass Habits And Habitats Revealed - The Fishing Wire

The Fishing Wire — Sport Fish Restoration-funded research informs fishery managers.
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Frozen in time | Hatchery International

Frozen in time | Hatchery International

Hatchery International — Williams Creek National Fish Hatchery, situated amid the ponderosa pine-studded hills of the White Mountains of eastern Arizona, harbours gold: the only captive Apache trout broodstock in existence. This hatchery, one of 70 national fish hatcheries, turns 80 years old this year.
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