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SETXsports.com 06-07 Outdoors Photo Contest Rules and Guidelines 1. Contestants may submit entries starting May 7, 2007. Deadline for entries will be June 8, 2007. Winners posted June 22, 2007 here on the Southeast Texas Outdoors forum. 2. There will be 4 Categories: 1 entry per person, per category. -Best Fishing Photo – pictures taken while fishing, or of your catch over the last year. Fishing photos taken after the deadline of this contest should be entered next year. -Best Hunting Photo – pictures taken while hunting, or of you and your harvested animal. Photos from last dove season through turkey season this year. -Family Outdoors Photo – pictures of families, children, and/or pets enjoying the outdoors. -Nature Photo- pictures of nature taken while hunting, fishing, camping, etc. 3. Winners will be chosen by a panel of setxsports.com staff and moderators. 4. Enter photos by email. Please send your name, category you wish to enter and any comments about your photo along with photos. If you wish to remain anonymous just send your setxsports.com screen name. - Email photos to: [email protected]

Reminds me of what it looks like when I walk in from work everyday. It is amazing what a 16 year old, a 10 year old and a 4 year old can eat in a day. ???

Dayton High Schools Athlete of the Year award went to sophmore Cody Green. Cody was the starting QB for the Dayton varsity football team that won the undefeated 22-4A District Title and Bi-District Title this past season. He played on the varsity basketball team, ran varsity track, and varsity baseball. He also won District Offensive Newcomer of the year. I am sure there some things I left out. Congratulations to Cody, he is an excellent athlete and person. We expect great things in Cody's future.

Excellent!!

Dido

UIL rules govern public school extracirricular activities, it just seems fishy that they would allow schools that don't have to meet the same academic, attendance and district standards as the schools they would be competeing against. Would no pass no play still be in effect for private schools? What about students with discipline problems who left public school to go to private schools? Seems like a big headache, so that means the UIL will love it.

Thanks, I hope we do well. Go Broncos!!!

One word "CLASS". Good post sportsmom.

Have been in the past, but I haven't paid up yet this year.

My son found these baby Mockingbird's in our hedges yesterday Friday 4/27/07. Pretty cool! 8)

The dude holding the Hammerhead, is a hammerhead.

;D Funny how that works ???

And we thought me we had the market cornered on rednecks. ;D

[Hidden Content],1,4076377.story?ctrack=2&cset=true 2 sentenced for killing wolves in Upper Peninsula Associated Press April 24, 2007, 5:34 PM CDT IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. -- Two men have been fined and temporarily denied hunting privileges for killing wolves in the Upper Peninsula. William Jason Morgan, 28, of Iron Mountain, pleaded guilty this month to shooting a wolf during firearms deer hunting season last fall near Felch in Dickinson County, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said. District Judge Michael Kusz ordered Morgan to pay $2,385 in fines, costs and restitution. Morgan lost his hunting privileges through 2010, was placed on six months probation and ordered to participate in the county's tether program for 30 days. Robert Wudzinski, 70, of Richmond, pleaded guilty in March to shooting a wolf wearing a radio collar last November. A DNR wildlife biologist was tracking the collar's signals by air when it signaled the wolf had died. Conservation officers located the carcass and investigated the shooting. Wudzinski pleaded guilty to taking a protected animal. Judge Anders Tingstad ordered him to pay $2,150 in fines, costs and restitution. He was placed on probation for nine months and lost his hunting privileges for the rest of this year. Although taken off the federal endangered list for the Great Lakes region this year, gray wolves remain on Michigan's endangered list. Killing them is illegal unless they are threatening human life. The DNR estimates 434 live in the Upper Peninsula.

You will not find thread with topics like this for the most part because they are usually created by someone who wants to talk about their on kid, grandson, nephew, etc... They usaully die out pretty quick because no one is interested. A better place to post this would be Youth/Little League/Jr. High Sports forum.

Excellent, both young men are class acts! Congratulations!

I agree with formerpirate, Biggio first ballot. Bagwell did some good things but I think his career was tainted his last few years. He seemed real whiney and grouchy but mostly non-productive. Biggio was and is a class act.

PN-G should win but, I say Dayton wins to finish the season on a positive note. Dayton 6 PN-G 3

These aren't the latest but, some good ones off the school website.

No mercy

They have been thinkin it for years up North.

Potential World Record Turkey Taken in Texas The pictures where copyrighted so I am just posting the link. [Hidden Content]

Study: Shotguns not safer for deer hunting Written by Administrator Wednesday, 18 April 2007 Ballistics tests give surprise results A Pennsylvania state-sponsored study concluded that shotgun slugs are much more prone to ricochets than rifle bullets. And in some cases, the study says, slugs can travel farther than a bullet. The assumption shotguns are safer than rifles because of their shorter maximum range has been used as the basis for shotgun-only hunting regulations in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Some states prohibit all rifle use by deer hunters. The study was authorized in 2005, and states it may be the first comprehensive look at the rifle versus shotgun debate. The study's conclusions are based on ballistics analysis of shots fired by deer rifles, shotguns and muzzleloaders. The 67-page study examined ballistics data on three popular deer-hunting guns: a .30-06 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a .50-caliber muzzleloader. The rifle had the greatest maximum range at 2.64 miles, followed by the shotgun at 1.97 miles and the muzzleloader, which generally uses heavier and slower bullets, at 1.74 miles. But most shots by hunters don’t approach the gun’s maximum range. When shots were fired at an elevation of 5 degrees, the total distances traveled, including ricochets, were 1.66 miles for a rifle bullet and 1.3 miles for a shotgun slug. When shots were fired holding the guns level three feet off the ground, the shotgun slug traveled 0.99 of a mile, 16 percent farther than the rifle bullet. According to the study, slugs hold together better and lose less energy during ricochets than rifle bullets. Therefore, slugs often can travel farther than rifle bullets in common hunting scenarios. Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 April 2007 ) [Hidden Content]

Check this picture out, click link: [Hidden Content] Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal fly in the trough of four foot waves in the surf near Port Aransas Sunday. The ducks used the waves as wind breaks as they maintained their northward migration. The arctic blast that blew through Texas over the weekend did not stop a major movement of waterfowl. Teal, northern shovelers and cormorants were observed flying in the 30+ mph winds. Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 April 2007 )

Media Contact: Steve Lightfoot, (512) 389-4701, [email protected] April 23, 2007 [Hidden Content] Partnership Ensures Future of East Texas Wetland AUSTIN, Texas — As demands for water these days severely taxes supplies in many cases, it is good news for conservation when long-term provisions are made for wildlife which has to depend on people for much of its allotment. Thanks to a cooperative arrangement between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Lower Neches Valley Authority, with infrastructure support from Ducks Unlimited, a critical wetland site on the Alazan Bayou Wildlife Management Area in East Texas could remain viable for over a quarter of a century. The agreement provides up to 10,000-acre-feet of water annually for moist soil management use on the WMA. “It’s a pretty bold move for LNVA to authorize Parks and Wildlife to use that water to help manage habitat,†said Mike Berger, TPWD wildlife division director. “It sends a strong message about water for wildlife and we applaud the efforts of our partners at LNVA for stepping up to help us support the critical needs of critters.†Acquired by TPWD in 1991 with help from DU, Alazan Bayou WMA covers 1,973 acres and is one of the largest remaining tracts of bottomland forests along the Angelina River floodplain. And, while much of the area is inundated during the winter, some of the bottomlands on the site that had previously been converted to agriculture remain high and dry. Through the construction of water control structures and a water distribution system, wildlife managers set the foundation to recreate a moist soil environment that waterfowl, wading birds and other species need. Unfortunately, the natural flow of water runoff that biologists were relying upon to fill the wetland cells was eliminated a few years ago with improvements to the county road adjacent to the area. No water, no wetland. “We went to TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) and asked for water rights on Alazan and all of the senior water rights were tied up in the Neches River Basin,†explains Gary Calkins, TPWD district wildlife biologist in Jasper. “We couldn’t get any water for the management area, so we couldn’t operate those wetland cells.†Following TCEQ’s advice to approach the local river authority, the most senior water right holder in the basin, Calkins presented the opportunity to the LNVA. In September 2004, the LNVA Board voted unanimously to support this worthwhile project for the upper reach of the Neches Basin by offering to provide, at no cost, up to 10,000 acre-feet a year to nourish the Alazan wetlands for the next 20 years. “LNVA is pleased to be a partner with TPWD and Ducks Unlimited in promoting important projects, such as Alazan Bayou, by providing environmental flows to sustain our Texas wetlands,†said Cheryl Olesen, President of the Board of Directors for LNVA. The Alazan Bayou WMA has been identified by the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture as a critical wetland complex consisting of riverine habitats, oxbow lakes, and several other bottomland community types that provide suitable waterfowl habitat. Much of the area floods annually during winter and traditionally attracts large numbers of wintering mallards and wood ducks, as well as numerous shorebirds and migrating neotropicals. In addition to being a popular waterfowl hunting area within the TPWD public hunting lands system, Alazan Bayou WMA is gaining a reputation among birdwatchers. “These wetland cells will be open to public hunting starting this fall,†said Bill Adams, a wildlife biologist with TPWD who oversees management of several WMAs in the Pineywoods region, including Alazan Bayou. “But, they also provide habitat for shorebirds that are already using the area. Our goal this summer if we have the opportunity is to conduct some prescribed burns to remove unwanted woody vegetation, which would allow us to maintain the quality of these wetlands.†TPWD will use a portable pump to draw water from nearby Moral Creek on the Angelina River for use in the wetland cells. The pump was purchased and donated by Ducks Unlimited. “Ducks Unlimited cannot accomplish its mission of waterfowl habitat conservation without partnerships,†said Keith McKnight, DU regional biologist in Tyler. “In the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department we have an old and trusted partner that shares our vision of quality wetland habitat, and has the staff and land base to accomplish great things on the ground. We continue to work with and depend upon TPWD and our other agency and private partners to make a real difference for ducks and geese across the continent and right here in Texas.†SL 2007-04-23