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    Where the Road Ends

    Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. -Blackfoot proverb Yesterday, I took my new West Greenland skin-on-frame kayak to the flooded Hawkeye Wildlife Management Area in the middle of Iowa – little did the Inuit know that their type of watercraft would be used so far from Artic waters. This WMA is made up of pools and wetland created by the back up of water behind the Coralville Reservoir and usually is only a couple of feet deep, but with the flood water the WMA had gained six to ten feet of water. It has become a real sized lake with real sized water. Just the…

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