This is the turkey my nephew Drew shot during the Youth Hunt. Under the tail fan he hung the beard into the fired shell, the wingbone call customized by Ed Miller, and the jar of pebbles he found in the gizzard. I am as proud of his craftsmanship as much as his hunting skills.
There are better ways to rebuild Louisiana's wetlands. It's not too late to stop a long-imagined but misguided $2 billion project to divert up to 75,000 cubic feet per second of the Mississippi River into the Barataria Basin to replenish disappearing marsh.
Pogie Boats near Whiskey Island on the Louisiana Coast. Chris Macaluso, Director of the Center for Marine Fisheries at Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, discusses the issue these boats are causing.
