I remember putting on my rubber barn boots & grabbing a shovel, heading down by the banks of the Goose River between Mayville and Portland, right there on North Dakota Highway 200 by the park. Goose River flooding homes in Mayville, ND Several homes and businesses have taken on water in Mayville as the Goose […]
Bodies moving in water
Stream Trout general fishing season opens in Minnesota 18 April 2009. Until then, we have time to study the maps, tie our flies and dream our boyhood dreams of bodies of moving water…. San Antonio Express – Fly Fishing from Adam Richard Jones on Vimeo. http://tauntedbywaters.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-mark-of-a-true-fishing-scribe-bikini-tops/
Preparing
The National Weather Service is predicting major flooding in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota: Flood Risk High and Flooding Imminent for the Red River of the North Basin; Above Average Risk for Upper Midwest and from the lower Great Lakes to Illinois and part of New England I grew up in and around Fargo, […]
When is a Farm a Farm?
USDA ERS bulletin Exploring Alternative Farm Definitions: Implications for Agricultural Statistics and Program Eligibility
Our Irish Elders
In 1849, Thomas William Maloy married Anna Kenny, somewhere in County Roscommon, Ireland. They soon departed Eire’s green shores for a better life in America, settling on a small farm in Upstate New York. The Maloys—along with untold other Irish ancestors known and unknown—left all they knew and loved for the great unknown. Thomas & Anna were […]
In Praise of The Rocking R Bar
…the kind of Third Place that a community needs…
Census of Agriculture in Southwest Minnesota
Presentation by John C Shepard, AICP, to Southwest Regional Development Commission, March 2009
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Sorry to bother you, testing theme features.
Living too close to town
[v=_tmcUsSbmuo] Edward Abbey died 20 years ago today. The American Spectator has a nice essay that sums up my love-hate admiration for the Conservative Anarchist of the Desert Southwest: Cactus Ed was a prickly sort; a conservative anarchist, if you will, who on one hand could support eco-terrorism (a favorite motto was: “Keep America Beautiful […]
RFP Safe Routes to School Plan
Re-post from The Western Planner