http://kvnf.org en http://kvnf.org/post/remembering-aldo-leopold-visionary-conservationist-and-writer <em>"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:58:00 +0000 Jacki Lyden 7555 at http://kvnf.org http://kvnf.org/post/around-river-bend-flood-history The Bark River is my backyard, childhood river. And yet, in a lifetime of travel, I'd never explored it.<p>I knew it carved the land from the Ice Age to settlement times, from the Black Hawk War of 1832 (in which young Abraham Lincoln appears) to the era of grist mills. But the Bark also flows past impressive Indian mounds. Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:18:00 +0000 Jacki Lyden 2113 at http://kvnf.org Around The River Bend, A Flood Of History