For those of us who depend upon the US Geological Survey river gages, the day has finally come when they are switching over to the new form...

 This is an old piece of writing from 2011.  That was a year of the periodic cicada emergence in Missouri, and we had a lot of them around t...

  The first time I ever heard of the John Day River in Oregon was back in 1987, when I won the first of state Nevada Trout Stamp contest.  I...