I Love Paddling

That a river in Ohio, the Cuyahoga, caught fire in the 1960s is commonly known. That an acid spill ten years ago on the Alafia River in Florida killed everything in its 42-mile path was news to us at Canoeing.com. The Ledger, a Lakeland, Florida newspaper brought the disaster to our attention recently after it sent reporter Tom Palmer back to the Alafia […]

Unless you’re planning to drag your fishing tackle into Western Ontario’s premier wilderness park by sled, you might want to file this item away until springtime. In any case, starting on January 1, 2008, anglers in Quetico Provincial Park will no longer be allowed to use organic baits or barbed hooks in the park. Organic baits […]

The American Canoe Association recently named former America Online executive Martin Bartles its new executive director.  Bartles, according to THIS story, recently served as the the head of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.  The ACA, founded in 1880, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of canoe and kayak education, recreation, and stewardship.  The organization is in the […]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently ran THIS interesting story about a late season goose hunt, on an icy river, using a canoe and a sled. It’s a canoe-hunt for the hardy, as this quote from Dennis Anderson’s story attests: “The river ice was precarious, not quite solid, not quite weak, and en route back from […]

We’ve been heartened by the recent use of canoes in artistic, historical, and cultural displays.  Our favorite variety of watercraft has been inspiring and transporting people for a long, long time, after all. We recently noticed THIS story and photo about a canoe built in the aboriginal Tasmanian style now on display at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart, […]

We’ve had a cold and snowy start to the winter in and around the Canoeing.com offices here in Minnesota. We’re not complaining; we like all the seasons. Still, it was a welcome surprise when the book Canoeing & Kayaking Florida (Menasha Ridge Press, $17.95) arrived in our mail. The cover shots of liquid water and […]

Continuing our run of “police blotter” items … We noticed THIS story about the owner of a canoe rental business in Illinois who faces felony obstruction of justice charges surrounding the accidental drowning of one of his customers.  After one of five underage customers, alleged to have been drinking, drowned near his business last July, canoe […]

Four paddlers in Maryland were officially warned by the state’s natural resources police over illegally cutting fallen trees along the Gunpowder Falls River. The four, some of them members of the Greater Baltimore Canoe Club, used chainsaws to clear the waterway in an apparent effort to make the river safer and more run-able for paddlers. […]