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On the Outdoors

In middle of I-95: great outdoors

May 11, 2008

No one would ever mistake the median strip of Interstate 95 for the Grand Canyon's breathtaking Indian Springs campground.

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  • A fish story from hatch to catch

    May 4, 2008

    Albert Powell raised a big, fat rainbow trout.

  • O'Malley not out of element

    April 27, 2008

    With cameras rolling and reporters scribbling, Gov. Martin O'Malley got down and dirty with a bunch of his constituents Friday morning. He turned over rocks to see what slithered from the gooey underside and cast a wide net to help them find spineless creatures that hid in the shadows.

  • Striped bass season opens slowly

    April 20, 2008

    At 6:08 yesterday morning as he powered up the twin diesels and nosed his 46-foot charter boat toward the Chesapeake Bay, Capt. George Bentz declared the striped bass season open for business.

  • Take the bait on these spots

    April 13, 2008

    Fact: All of Maryland's lakes are manmade.

  • Tide washes in more fisheries charges

    April 6, 2008

    Let's go to the mailbox, shall we, folks?

  • 'Country lifestyle' site not unseen

    March 30, 2008

    Social networking in the outdoors usually starts with borrowing bug spray or scrounging coffee from someone with a thermos or getting a jump-start for a dead-as-a-doornail battery.

  • Turkey decoys not for the birds

    March 23, 2008

    That's a crazy dateline for a Maryland outdoors column, but what the heck, that's where we are.

  • Old ship could bring life to coast

    March 16, 2008

    There are people in Maryland who could write a $200,000 check for a boat without batting an eye.

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