Archive | February, 2009

Symposium to Focus on “Affordable North”

6 Feb

The Minnesota Canoe Association’s Far North Symposium will stress budget-friendly northern paddling trips when expedition paddlers from the Upper Midwest gather on Saturday, March 28 in St. Paul. Strained pocketbooks and rising aviation prices to remote areas, organizers stress, need not keep hardy paddles home this summer. Presenters at the gathering, organized by arctic paddling […]

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Missouri Contending with Rowdy Paddlers

3 Feb

“There’s so many drunks out. People don’t think it’s safe to be on the rivers Friday, Saturday and Sunday.” So said Missouri Senate Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Chair Matt Bartle, according to THIS Springfield News-Leader story.  His committee recently heard testimony in support of a bill which would ban beer kegs, styrofoam coolers, Jell-O […]

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Michigan Mulls Canoe Registration

2 Feb

We know only a fraction of our readers reside in Michigan, but we thought Howard Meyerson’s recent column in the Grand Rapids Press had appeal beyond the boundaries of the Wolverine State. Meyerson reports, HERE, that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is looking into the idea of requiring Michigan residents to register their canoes […]

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