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"B ig commercial racket" - Lucy   A Charlie Brown Christmas Personally, one of my love languages is gift giving. As a child I realized how happy people where when they got gifts from others and I always wanted to make people happy. One Christmas I realized I didn’t get anyone anything so I made every one jewelry out of paper. I know it is funny but I was a young kid and wanted to give people something special. As an adult every year I have tried to make people stuff, but some

This weekend as I was riding my horse around an indoor arena, a bat started to fly around. My first though was that bat should not be awake, what if it has white-nose syndrome. I can’t tell you exactly what kind of bat it was, but my best guess would be it was an Indiana Bat. A full-grown Indiana bat is about 3 to 3.8 inches long with a 9 to 10.5-inch wingspan. The bat I saw was fairly large so that is why I believe it to be an endangered Indiana bat. I know for most people b

In a time when our public lands face unprecedented legal and political threats, this blog explores why national monuments matter more than ever—and why the recent DOJ decision to let presidents revoke them is so dangerous. Rooted in the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, who championed conservation and inspired the iconic Teddy Bear, this piece dives into what’s at stake for our ecosystems, heritage, and future. Roosevelt wouldn’t have stood for this—and neither should we.

Do you remember walking past an open green space in the springtime, and hearing geese squawking because you accidentally got to close to...

Fourteen years. That’s how long it had been since I last entered the show ring. As most of you know, I was a competitive rider, which...

“It snowed last week, so much for global warming, right?” Have you ever heard someone, or maybe found yourself, say(ing) this? Well,...

Can you imagine a world where deer, elk, and moose slowly waste away? They cannot recognize their surroundings as they stagger through...