Category: Inspirational

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A Hunting Heritage Story ********** September 27, 2026 Opening morning of New York State’s northern zone bow hunting season. It all began with a father/son email: “Hey, Opening morning of bow season here. This guy showed up for the 1st time on lower main field at 3:30 am. I think he’s...

A Throwback Tour Through A Magical Forest Where Time Stands Still And the Fun Never Stops ********** This is on multiple levels a survivorship story. One of those stories being my own. ********** Seventeen Years. It seems like a lifetime ago, yet at one & the same time, just...

Windblown trees, ducklings, bear dances & a local author fireside book review. A quiet week of reflection in camp on a remote mountain lake. Just sitting. Doing nothing. It’s not something I’m particularly good at. As anyone who knows me will attest, I’m a busy guy, always on the...

I knew what it was the moment I saw it. Sitting there, unassumingly, in one corner of the vendor’s table, surrounded by other cards. To the untrained eye it might not have looked like much. Somewhat soiled with age, corners rounded, several slight creases, a little paper loss at...

Exploring the uncharted high peaks wilderness terrain of AI. Yes, I know. A crusty old Adirondack Outlaw hack of a writer is the last person that anyone, myself included, would ever in a million millenniums expect to find penning a piece about artificial intelligence. And yet here I am....

It all began with a question from my daughter Abby last summer shortly after she purchased her new home. “Dad, do you think at some point you might be able to dig me a pond?” She’d finally closed on her new home and begun the moving in process by...

A Trail Camera Chronology Maybe it’s their rugged beauty. It might be their elusive mystique. Perhaps it’s that distinctively short bobbed cat tail. It could simply be their spots. Whatever the case, whenever a new image graces our Monroe Wildlife Area’s trail camera array, we feel blessed. There’s just...

My 2026 Arbor Day Story It’s become a Monroe Wildlife Area tradition. Each spring the month of April is tree planting season. 2026, however, I vowed would in one key way be different. With three decades of past years’ plantings established in ground, I was going to significantly cut...

Well, that’s it. Seven cedar post mounted signs installed in seven days. Now the Monroe Wildlife Area’s National Wildlife Federation “Certified Wildlife Habitat” status is official. It only took 35 years! Thirty five years spent clearing miles of tangled barbed wire and long since abandoned rusted farm debris remnants....