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If you’ve ever driven by a lake during winter in the colder states, there’s often an angler or two out there by a hole on the ice, waiting for the catch. Ice fishing has been practiced for thousands of years, ...

A fish pond can be an attractive and rewarding addition to your land that helps to attract wildlife, stores water in times of drought, and provides a swimming hole for your kids — all while producing fish for your table. ...

A 77-year old Montana resident is facing 15 years in federal prison for building ponds on and hear his own property, charged by the federal government for discharging dredged and fill material. The man, disabled veteran Joseph Robertson, also could ...

A Wyoming farmer and his attorneys have won a significant victory against the EPA. In a settlement, the agency has backed off in its threat to fine Andy Johnson tens of millions of dollars because he built a stock pond ...

  Warm weather has arrived, and along with the sunny weather often comes a to-do list of projects. If you have been looking for a project to work on this year, why not build a pond? We will get to ...

The Environmental Protection Agency violated federal law by fining a Wyoming farmer $37,500 a day for building a stock pond on his own property, a new lawsuit alleges. Andy Johnson now faces more than $16 million in fines even though ...

There’s a variety of ways you can maximize the efficiency of your homestead, and one of them is through zoning. Zoning is a design principle you’d most often hear of in permaculture circles. Permaculture, as the name implies, is a ...

If you have considered cutting the ties that bind your homestead with the unpredictable future that correlates with grid dependence, then you’ve probably also thought about how you would sustain your family’s dietary needs. You have already stocked up on ...

A new virus found in algae in rivers, lakes and ponds could infect human beings and seriously slow brain activity, according to a group of scientists. Scientists found that people infected with the virus, called ACTV-1, were cognitively 10 to ...

If you are looking for a natural and easy way to add interest to your property and to encourage native species to take up residence, consider making a pond. I am not referring to a pool with koi and other ...