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Outdoor Notes: Opener for turkey Thursday
Nebraska’s spring turkey archery season opens Thursday. New features this year include $5 youth permits for residents and nonresidents; hunters may hunt in the archery and shotgun seasons under the authority of a spring permit;…

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Landmark health care victory for Democrats
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed President Barack Obama’s historic health-care bill, in a landmark vote to extend health insurance to millions of Americans.

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Outdoors calendar: Events in the great outdoors
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America’s Epic Pass offers a jam-packed ski holiday of a lifetime
It was hard not to feel a little disoriented. Powdery sheets of pure, light snow were falling from the sky, dusting both Vail’s vast expanse of skiable terrain and the three-inch thick juicy steaks that sizzled on the outdoor hot plates at Belle’s Camp Warming Hut. The Hut offers basic food, free barbeques and – at 11,480ft above sea level – views of the vistas of Vail’s Blue Sky Basin ski area.

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Heard around the trail
TURKEY BANQUET – The annual banquet of the Honey Hole Longbeards Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation features fun, food and fundraising for programs that preserve habitat for wildlife and encourage young people to join outdoor activities. The

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A brief virtual tour of a masterpiece of ornithological illustration. Plate 131 from Birds of America by John James Audubon. A supreme illustration in the finest detail but, surprisingly, not much known outside the world of dedicated students of Audubon’s work. The more well-known examples, such as Wild Turkey and Blue Jay, are nowhere near as fine as this amazing piece of early 19th Century draughtsmanship and printing. Now restored to its full original glory but free of the early engraving, printing and colouring errors that were inevitable 180 years ago. Video from restoredprints.com with permission.

Easter morning ‘07 surprise at the birdfeeder. This is a BIG bird!