Here is a marvelous idea!;http://www.katu.com/news/14813816.html
Save the Trees!
Doug
hmmmm Duggie/Dougie, I don’t think that the good folks of Alabama really WANT all of those plantation pines to be “saved”. After a quarter of a century of too-low prices, I think that they would much rather see MORE paper being made. BTW, 53,000,000 trees for pulping could probably be covered by 100 square miles of some counties in Alabama. Oh, and lets not forget Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisianna…etc…
There are even quite a few pulping pines in Michigan. Many of them help to protect the Au Sable River watershed.
Now as far as filling up the landfills, that is another issue.
Ed, who recieves FAR too many catalogs every year.
Ed,
Somewhere, around here, I have an 880 page “catalog”, that lists EVERY CATALOG that’s available, from every manufacturer, store, shop, you name it, that puts one out!
it sounds like the EXACT type of “catalog” you’d enjoy! Yours for the asking! (IF, I can find it, in this mess!?)
Quite to the contrary, Flybinder. I find that between Cabela’s, Bass Pro, Orvis, and LL Bean that I have MORE than enough catalogs. I just dropped off a stack at the recycling center on Saturday.
Ed
Yo! Duggie!
Really want to re-cycle all that junk mail? RAISE WORMS! They work for free and will turn all that paper into worm casings ( worm poo ) which are super for building up the soil in your garden or orchard. Thus you will have better crops that don’t need chemical fertilizers.
The numerous Benefits are:
Less waste in the landfill
Less chemicals produced for fertilizer
Educated Worms will learn to read from newspapers becoming productive citizens.
Less chemicals returned to the soil to leach into the water table.
The Orchard trees will help replace the Oxygen we all need to breath.
The trees will also help filter impurity’s out of the air.
Worms that would otherwise be homeless looking for handouts hanging around street corners causing no end of trouble.
Better tasting fruits and vegetables.
Less trips to the store in your gas guzzling automobile to get groceries.
Less emissions from your car cause you got your veggies from the back yard.
Worms with credit cards and worms that may already be a millionair.
and finally …BAIT! for dunking worms. :mrgreen:
Oh sure there will be a few of those snobby fly fishers that may pelt your house with eggs during the Halloween season. Its a small price to pay for all those juicy rich, employed, and self educated fish catching worms in your bait box.
Gnu Bee Flyer,
My favorite benefits!
- Educated Worms will learn to read from newspapers becoming productive citizens.
2.Worms that would otherwise be homeless looking for handouts hanging around street corners causing no end of trouble.
- and finally …BAIT! for dunking worms.
I still have nightmares of the worms I broke trying to pull them out of their holes in the dark wet grass! Thanks a lot DAD! 
The secret to pulling worms out of the ground is to snatch them out quickly as possible like a bird would. If you hesitate they have time to sink their bristles into the soil and will break apart. ( Yes worms have bristles )
I have only heard of this as Of course I would not dream of using worms for bait.
Doug, PLEASE, since this IS a “fly fishing forum”. refer to your “worms”, using proper terminology…i.e. “Garden Hackle”, “Lawn Nymphs” , “Turf Emergers”, and/or, just simply…“Original Tube Flies”.
It just “sounds” better!?!