Opinion

I got a call this morning from a dairy farmer who says there is a bear hanging around his barn that sends his dairy cows into a panic, and they won’t even go into the barn to be milked. He says he believes it is a female with a cub because he has seen the cub in past years.

I hired Nancy Smith Lynn a year or so ago to work with advertisers for my magazines. She owns a farm near Mt.

I learned something about skunks recently. I drove from my home to Bull Shoals Lake in North Arkansas last week, then up to Texas County and eventually back home to Lightnin’ Ridge here about 40 miles to the north of Springfield.

This week’s memory actually starts slightly before the 1960s and in Springfield, Missouri rather than Flippin. As I’ve mentioned previously, I was born during the years my family lived in Springfield and we moved back to Flippin when I was five years old.

The relationship between public notices and newspapers goes hand-in hand to protect and inform citizens about changes in their communities and inform them of government actions. Publishing legals in newspapers that are delivered to subscribers and available around cities in news racks makes important information readily available. There are some who would like to end that practice and lessen the likelihood that the public will be notified of important information.

A real-life naturalist is a man who has lived his life in the woods knows and sees and feels things that he knows the modern world will not understand Men who call themselves ‘Master Naturalists’ in this day and time are to be laughed at. There are lots of those. But real naturalists from an early time, like Muir and Miner and Burroughs, seem to be those who will never be again. They were taken seriously once, but not now. The ones I knew are either very old or dead. Henry David Thoreau once wrote “In wildness was the saving of mankind.” He was right!