Mark and his favvorite Belize guide, Captain John Morgan, with a Belize River snook. The Mangrove Marshes There’s something ancient about the boundary where open water meets wet ground. Mangrove marshes—those dense, tangled edges of the tropics—are built for ambush predators. Tarpon and snook hold themselves still until prey makes a mistake. Spend time in these places and you learn quickly why life gathers at the margins. Mangroves grow in protected tidal zones, standing abov

Working Title: Angling Adventures, Due: 2027 Back Eddies = Easy Living for Trout Back Eddies are places in a river where the current reverses direction and flows upstream. In these pockets, the water slows, curls, and revolves in gentle circles or tight spirals. Some eddies are rough and churning; others are soft and slow. The ones that matter most to us are large enough to hold multiple trout. They can be as small as a washtub or broad enough to span nearly the entire width

Working title: Adventure of a Redneck Hippy Due: 2027 Billy Goat Bob and the Fury The Northern Idaho Panhandle of my childhood was a raw, stubborn place—low rolling hills and ancient lakebeds tucked between the Selkirk and Cabinet ranges, still clinging to the past while the rest of America sprinted toward the space age. By the late 1950s the country had been logged out, burned over, and patched together again with small sawmills and stump ranches. My father logged and farme

Due: December 2026 Long before the Ice‑Free Corridor opened, long before Clovis, long before the tidy textbook story allowed, people were already here. Rimrock Draw Rockshelter — a quiet basin‑edge site in Oregon — holds evidence that pushes human presence in the American West deeper into the late Pleistocene. Beneath volcanic ash and wind‑blown loess lie enamel fragments, obsidian flakes, and a protein‑bearing scraper that challenge the old migration timeline and illuminate