Quick Sips: Eagles & Adopting Land

• Go back and check out the Eagle Cam. Those eggs are now little eagles. You can see replays of the hatching over on YouTube.

• I've had a love/hate relationship with the Nature Conservancy. I love what they do, but they did tick me off a couple of years ago when it was discovered that they were selling less desirable land to fund purchases of more desirable land. Logically that sounds like the right thing to do, it just doesn't feel right
  
  Anyhow, they have this Adopt an acre  program going on to help preserve the Northern Rockies. Sounds like a great way to protect land that contains some great fisheries. If only they were buying up the minteral rights to prevent it from being mined and otherwise abused. Do you suppose they could buy Huey Lewis' ranch?

• I hate poetry. Okay, not true. I find it a bit tedious. Mostly. Soul of Streams wrote a nice one called Codgers For anyone who's every walked into a fly shop, especially one like Fran Betters', this one should speak to you.