Bass, crappie, walleye and white bass have spawned and are putting on the 'feed bag', trying to recover from the rigors of spawning. Campbell prefers casting parallel to the shoreline where possible because bass have three trap zones for forage - the surface, shoreline and alongside docks. Black bass in shallow water are more vulnerable to topwater lures during the low light periods of morning and evening and on cloudy days. When Van Dam is fishing medium to clear water or when he has to...

Wildlife experts are predicting a bumper crop of the striped undesirables over the next few months following the mild winter and warm, early spring. Wildlife experts are warning of an invasion of wasps and hornets at summer garden parties and barbecues after the mild winter and warm, early spring. The museum was swamped with calls after reports that a new invasive species, the Oriental hornet, or Asian "killer" hornet, could be arriving from southern France. They emerge in the spring to...

The tourists pet the burros, have their pictures taken with them, chat with them, and feed them carrots, available for $1 a bag from the Oatman General Store or any of a dozen other stores. But, ranchers, who had already seized land from the Indians and were deep into a land war with farmers, saw horses as competition for unfenced grazing land. No one remembers when the burros first came into the mountain town that is bisected by the hairpin curves and switchbacks of Old Route 66, but they...

If an ultrasound is performed the woman will have the right to view the active ultrasound, and hear the heartbeat of the unborn child, if audible; the quality of the ultrasound shall be consistent with standard medical practice and show the dimensions, presence of external members and internal organs of the child. If an ultrasound is performed the woman will have the right to view the active ultrasound, and hear the heartbeat of the unborn child, if audible; the quality of the ultrasound...

He was a member of the blue-ribbon scientific panel that assessed the Klamath Basin situation in 2001, after federal agencies cut off irrigation water to farmers, and is a co-author on the 2007 UC Davis-Public Policy Institute of California report, "Envisioning Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. He was a member of the blue-ribbon scientific panel that assessed the Klamath Basin situation in 2001, after federal agencies cut off irrigation water to farmers, and is a co-author on...