You can have that blind over there, by the alfalfa, I was told, feeling a little guilty over missing out on the set-up chores that had begun at 5 a. Joined minutes later by Dustin Swenson, another former college buddy who drove down from Belle Plaine, the trio put the finishing touches on the ground blinds set up in the corn field that days earlier had been cut for silage. As grazing birds, Canada geese find golf courses the perfect sanctuaries to eat and subsequently defile golf greens...

She plans a career as a motivational speaker or a secondary education teacher, where she can combine her interest in secondary education with her passion for the environment. The area was full of sound with one or another of the sheep baa-ing loudly and the pigs snorting and snuffling as they pushed their way to their feed dishes. As such, she is expected to represent the fair with pride and dignity, and to exhibit the highest of principles at all times. Francois County Fair Queen never...

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...

The other is that, if Bush vetoes the final bill (as he is nearly certain to do), the warand all other military activitieswould grind to a halt, leaving the troops in the lurch, bereft of basic ammo and supplies. The congressional demands for a troop withdrawal are merely sections of the much larger bill to provide $96 billion in emergency spending for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon has several ways to reroute money if a veto locks the emergency-spending bill in...

In the late 1980s, the state planted mysis shrimp in a few northwest Montana lakes in an effort to provide forage for the kokanee. Standing in the bow of his boat, Jim Vashro's rod suddenly bends over double and the line sings as it rips off the reel. That's a fact that has been attracting a growing number of anglers every summer to Flathead where people are allowed to keep 100 whitefish a day. In Flathead, the shrimp competed with the salmon and trout for food and eventually wiped out the...