Archive for the ‘Outdoors/Recreation’ Category

$300,000 Gold Nugget Found by Amateur Prospector and Metal Detector

By • Jan 30th, 2013

TweetAn amateur prospector in Australia came into a bit of a windfall yesterday while searching for hidden gold. The man found a giant gold nugget weighing 177 ounces – worth approximately $295,000 at today’s market prices.



Jim Beers Interview: Wolves, Politics, Changing Society, Endangered Species Act

By • Oct 16th, 2012

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Free-Market Think-Tank Announces Expansion

By • Oct 12th, 2012

TweetFree-Market Think-Tank Announces Expansion: Okay, Mr. President, You Built That Teresa Platt Named Director of National Center for Public Policy Research’s Environment and Enterprise Institute Washington, DC – Teresa Platt, a 26-year veteran of the environmental policy debate, has been named director of The National Center for Public Policy Research’s Environment and Enterprise Institute, the [...]



Costa Rica Bans Hunting

By • Oct 5th, 2012

Tweet*Editor’s Note* – Most of the links provided for information into the background of Costa Rica’s president, Laura Chinchilla, comes from Wikipedia. Please consider this source while reading and researching the information provided. Costa Rica, located in Central America, has become the first country in the Americas to ban hunting. According to one news report, [...]



Dave Miller on Predator Workshop: “First Real Positive Efforts”

By • Oct 1st, 2012

TweetThe Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine and Gerry LaVigne, sponsor and put on Maine’s first Predator Control Workshop. Below is a summation of that workshop by David Miller, who attended the workshop and was a presenter for the function. PREDATOR CONTROL WORKSHOP On Saturday, September 29th, The Sportsman Alliance of Maine sponsored the first workshop addressing [...]



Frank Losey Exposes HSUS For Deceitful Marketing, Illegal Lobbying and More

By • Sep 27th, 2012

Tweet*Editor’s Note* – Below are copies of letters written by Frank Losey, an associate of the Missouri Federation of Animal Owners (MoFed), regarding Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The letters are republished with permission from the author. Mr. Losey has tirelessly waged a campaign to expose [...]



You Can Grow 6,000 Pounds of Food on 1/10th of an Acre

By • Sep 10th, 2012

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Will Roxanne Quimby Ask Obama For Executive Order to Create Maine National Park?

By • Jun 20th, 2012

TweetBurt’s Bees cofounder Roxanne Quimby wants to hand the government a new national park in northern Maine—election-year politics and residents’ NIMBYism be damned. Brian Kevin investigates the boldest conservation plan in decades. DEPENDING ON which direction you look, the taxiing strip at northern Maine’s tiny Millinocket Municipal Airport is either New England’s most blighted runway [...]



Ted Nugent Talks With Glenn Beck, Explains Targeting by Feds

By • Apr 26th, 2012

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