If we don’t care for the land, if we don’t care…?
Great blue herons are such magnificent creatures.
There are three herons feeding in the shallow waters at the lakes edge while another stands elegantly on a fallen log dozing. Or perhaps it is meditating.
Whatever it is doing it stirs and lifts one wing and grooms itself [...]

When I was knee high to a short toad I was always playing with sharp and pointy sticks. mama was always saying, “And don’t you play with any sharp and pointy sticks, if you do you are going to poke out both of your eyes and you will be blind for the rest of your [...]

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By
Charles Towne
Of all government organizations the U.S. Peace Corps, by its very name denotes a benign, yes, even peaceful existence, after all it is called, “The Peace Corps.”
One can only imagine the pains the organizers have gone to in order to make the time served as safe as possible for the volunteers but then one [...]

For those of us that despise the taking of an animal’s life for whatever reason we must understand that to the Maasai his wealth and stature is contained in his herds of cattle.
When wild animals make depredations on those cattle it is well understood that the warrior will defend his property as you or I [...]

Man, from the earliest times has killed the bear, challenging not only his presence but, or so it seems, his very right to exist.
It is obvious when we consider the evidence at hand and all that is reasonable that man ate the same food that bear ate and when he sought shelter he would at [...]

As a wildlife photographer I have utilized all sorts of blinds. “Anything that works” is my motto.
In order to get the footage I want there are those times that I have set up in the middle of a stream with a few interesting results such as having a red winged black bird build its nest [...]

I was born and raised on an island located on the Fox River that flows near Oswego, Illinois.
The Fox is a most beautiful river and somewhat unpredictable, very much like a beautiful woman.
She, the river, could go for years without showing her ugly side, without overflowing her banks; but when she did, surprise! Flood was [...]

As I make my way down what I call ‘bear creek’, the thick jungle growth crowds down to the waters edge. The only solid footing is in the creek itself as its shallow waters slowly meander and twist along over the white sandy bottom.
Dense Ferns overhang and obscure the shoreline of the shallow waterway while [...]

It was a bitterly cold, overcast winter day when I set out from our cabin located below Oswego Illinois on one of the many islands on the Fox River to check my traps.
Walking cautiously on the new ice I followed my trap line chopping out and retrieving those traps that had frozen into the ice.
I [...]

I didn’t see the alligator. All of my attention was on the group of wood storks that were fishing in the canal.
I wanted to get a little closer. Moving quietly so as not to disturb the birds that I wanted to photograph, I swung my leg over the large deadfall log and promptly forgot all [...]