Word: izaak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet long, fashioned with snow fences. In it waits a squad of small boys cradling large fish nets. As each chicken takes flight squawking in protest and spraying feathers, a boy dashes along its trajectory to net the flyer at its point of touchdown with the skill of an Izaak Walton landing a plump trout...
Sturgill had plenty of allies. A grassroots movement by the farmers, shopkeepers and craftsmen of the two counties enlisted the support of the influential Izaak Walton League of America and won the backing of North Carolina officials right up to the state house. The general assembly voted unanimously to incorporate the 26-mile stretch of the New River in Ashe and Alleghany counties into the state's scenic river system and turn it into a park. Secretary of the Interior Thomas Kleppe agreed to take the same section into the eight-year-old National Wild and Scenic Rivers System...
...much logging in the national forests. Their suits therefore seek strict enforcement of the service's original charter. The Organic Act of 1897 specifically permits logging in national forests-but only of "dead, matured or large growth" trees that have been individually marked for cutting. In 1973 the Izaak Walton League sued to halt clear-cutting in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest. Since clear-cutting means the chopping down of every single tree in a given area, including young ones, the court decided against the Forest Service...
With such distinguished observers and enthusiasts, it was only a question of time before the sport acquired its own philosopher. Izaak Walton, a draper by trade, was a biographer by avocation, but his chronicles have been forgotten. Only the discursive jottings on his favorite hobby have endured...
Once it was solely an occupation to for Eskimos and masochists. Hunkering down beside holes in icebound rivers and lakes, in temperatures that would give a seal the sniffles, the Izaak Waltons of midwinter would spend hours shivering and waiting for the tug on a line that told them a pike or a perch had been hooked...