A Hike in the Much Cooler Than it is in Mississippi North Woods

American Grouch has some beautiful photos of his gear, hike, wildlife, and even a crappy old book or two. Tag along here.

P.S. Lunch looks delicious!

Run-on

via PJMedia:

We must collectively and immediately dedicate ourselves to finding a way to effectively support both essential emergency wildfire preparedness and response AND the proactive fuels reduction and forest restoration that are needed to reduce the demand for emergency expenditures in the future,

said Christopher Topik, director of the Resorting America’s Forests initiative at The Nature Conservancy.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good old fashioned run-on sentence as much as the next guy. But man! That's out of control.

This caught my attention because the #1 agricultural product in my little county is not cotton but timber. The graph at the link is scary.

An oak seedling

in the North Pasture