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Earth Island Journal Spring 2013 Tucked in the woods near Jumbo Road outside of Melbourne, Arkansas, an ancient white oak grows straight up 10 feet before its trunk curves horizontally, forms a nub,...
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Lightning Rod Rivers: The Little Plover The Drake Summer 2013 The river suffers from lingchi, or a death by a thousand cuts, a technique invented by the Chinese used to torture and execute a victim...
View ArticleCave Collector in Minnesota Hunts for Additions to His Empire
The New York Times August 25, 2013 RACINE, Minn. — John Ackerman has been called a tree hugger and a kook by two landowners and a devil worshiper by a local town board member. He has been accused of...
View ArticleWinning On A Peel
Milwaukee Magazine July 2014 Walter G. Bohrer Jr. took on state regulators when they decreed his vending machine business an illegal gambling operation — and he triumphed. Read the rest at Milwaukee...
View ArticleCity Limits: Milwaukee
The Drake Summer 2014 Running for Home Next to a parking lot of tailgating Milwaukee Brewer fans, a river comes back to life. A haze hangs over Milwaukee, and it emanates from Miller Park. The area has...
View ArticlePaddle By Design
The Drake Fall 2014 Paddle By Design Crafting American perfection. At the end of Little Trout Valley Road in Minnesota’s Driftless Area, rain patters the rooftop of the Sanborn Canoe Company. It’s been...
View ArticleA Fishing Lure So Effective, It Catches Criticism
The New York Times December 4, 2014 The device is composed of five wires angled like spokes of an umbrella, with fishing lures attached to each end. It mimics a school of baitfish, and bass, walleye...
View ArticleRadar Love
The Drake Winter 2014 Radar Love How the Clean Water Act put massive mayfly hatches on the weather map On the evening of July 20, 2014, in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, hexagenia mayflies hatched...
View ArticleBig Hole to Big Manistee
The Drake Spring 2015 Big Hole to Big Manistee Can grayling survive in Michigan? Read the story in the Spring 2015 issue of The Drake.
View ArticleNot Your Dad’s Pinewood Derby (at Least in Theory)
The New York Times April 27, 2015 BROOKFIELD, Wis. — It starts with a block of wood, four wheels and four nails. It fills boys with hope and creativity; it fills parents with obsession or dread. On a...
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