Studying the clouds in my coffee this morning, it occurred to me that time is a funny thing.

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Alabama has a new map that gives hunters a better chance at bagging a buck.

Life is hard sometimes, and nowhere near fair.

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Golden eagles are back from Canada, spending the winter in the eastern U.S.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas as I write this, and it also looks like I will not be able to not stop by and have eggnog, cookies or anything else with all of you this year.

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Freshwater mussels range from about the size of a large button to the size of a billfold, but the work they do for ecosystems is enormous.

Many of you have seen the famous "Join or Die" political cartoon that predates the Revolutionary War — historians think it was done by Benjamin Franklin — and it seems to me that drawing of a segmented snake has a message for us as modern-day hunters.

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Deer season is in full swing, and it occurred to me that many of you hunters within the sound of my pen (or computer keyboard) don't have enough to argue about while you are at deer camp.

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Sunday's death of a paddler in Rhea County has been a stark reminder to those in the outdoors community of the perils faced in outdoor recreation, even for the most seasoned adventurers.

A development plan that resulted in a lawsuit against the city of Chattanooga, state Senate and House involvement, and an upstart community organization that quickly grew to 2,800 members has been amended to address concerns, according to a conservation group.

One of the last wild populations of Barrens topminnow survives, with help, in a small pond on private property just feet from a Summitville, Tennessee, highway.

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On Tuesday, a Senate committee passed the Restore Our Parks Act that would address the $12 billion in deferred maintenance at national parks, sending the bill to a full Senate vote.

It's time. Deer season comes only once a year, and for those who are deer hunters it's Christmas, the Fourth of July, your birthday and the last day of school all put together. Bow season has been in for some time, I know, but this is the Big Show: rifle buck season, which is what deer hunters have waited for all year long.

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The Cherokee National Forest is expanding by 1,500 acres near the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga thanks to a partnership between the German automaker and The Conservation Fund, the groups announced Thursday afternoon.