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F E AT U R E S . . .
Mixed Bag – Eastern Mole, Travel to Landmark
Country, Pershing for President, Upcoming Events
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Wilderness Workshop –
Photo Tip ................... 60
Page 49 –
Roger Welsch's "A Perfect Place" .............. 61
Outdoor Business
– Lynn Berggren ........................ 62
Nature Notes –
Prairie Crabapple ............................. 65
Portraits from the Past .................................. 68
In the Kitchen
– Three Goose Recipes ................. 72
The Last Stop
– A Fishing Photographer .................. 74
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E . . .
Volume 94
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April 2016
Watch Your Step
PHOTOS AND STORY BY ALEX WILES
The Crappies of Spring
BY JUSTIN HAAG
Sandhills Speedsters – The Quarter Horse
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MARK HARRIS
Phlox – A Nebraska Sampler
BY JAMES H. LOCKLEAR
A Place of Bounty – Wood Duck WMA
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JENNY NGUYEN
The Nation's Best – Turkey Hunting in Nebraska
BY NEBRASKALAND MAGAZINE STAFF
Time Well Spent – Unusual Places to Stay Overnight
BY RENAE BLUM
An Expo for the Outdoors
BY JULIA PLUGGE
Cover: Catching crappie, like this one from a Sarpy County farm pond,
is a spring tradition statewide. To read more, see page 32. Photo by Jeff
Kurrus.
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Cover: Catching crappie like this one from a Sarpy County farm pond
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