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Treasure Coast Outdoors

Waterfowl Hunters Have An conservation work was one of the more rewarding things that phone and social media, UW-F is very active in helping them
I’ve done in life.
experience real life. Education of the next generation of duck
Advocate In Florida Florida has a similar organization. It is called United hunters is of utmost importance to the United Waterfowlers – FL.
Waterfowlers – Florida (UW-F). It was created in 2000 and UW-F members can be found teaching waterfowl education in
By Jim Weix has been steadily growing. Like the Wisconsin Waterfowl all parts of the state of Florida. Whether it is a summer camp at
Back in the early 1980s, a Association, the United Waterfowlers – Florida has developed the Beau Turner Youth Conservation Center (BTYCC), Youth
group of Wisconsin waterfowl relationships with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Trailblazer at Broward County Park, or a Youth Hunt at a storm
hunters decided that more Commission, Water Management Districts, U.S. Fish and treatment area (STA), you are bound to find a UW-F member
must be done with regards to Wildlife Service, and Ducks Unlimited. Locally they are involved sharing his/her passion with the young hunters.
wetland restoration. We also with many of the wetland projects to help restore the Everglades You might want to check them out at https://
needed a voice in such things and prevent discharges into the St. Lucie River. unitedwaterfowlersfl.org/.
as waterfowl regulations. UW-F also acts as an informal political action committee, Editor’s note: Jim Weix is an avid hunter, angler,
The result was the creation participating in political matters that the charters of DU conservationist, as well as an outdoor writer. Jim is included
of the Wisconsin Waterfowl may not allow. UW-F gives Florida duck hunters a voice in in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s Hall of Fame, for his
Association. I’m proud to say numerous meetings and hearings across Florida. They take a work in helping restore thousands of acres of wetlands. Jim is a
that I was a founding member three-tiered approach to improving duck hunting by focusing broker associate with The Keyes Company. He can be reached
of that organization. Watching it grow, restoring thousands on conservation, access, and legacy. at (772) 341-2941 or by email: jimweix@jimweix.com.
of acres of wetlands, and winning national awards for our With more and more of our youth becoming glued to a cell

Book Review from page 12 simply ignore this addendum, I found it fascinating. It scarcely expect that her child would.”
includes an explanation of Lepore’s methods and sources So I turned to the notes section at the back of the book,
and died while he was still in England); Jane wrote that used to gather so many of the previously lost details of to number 8 under Chapter 4, and this is what I found:
letter when she was 45 years old! (All the letters she had Jane Franklin’s life; a genealogy of the Franklin family “On average, an eighteenth-century white woman could
written before that time have been lost to history because dating back to 1665 (which is very helpful, since many of expect to become pregnant between five and ten times, to
they were not considered important!) the children were named for parents, grandparents, etc.); give birth to between five and seven live children. Mary
This fact alone makes clear how incredibly diligent a detailed calendar of all the letters written by Jane and Beth Norton, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary
and thorough was the research for this book on the part Benjamin, and others, from January 1727 to July 1793; a Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (Boston:
of its author, Jill Lepore, who is Professor of American chapter about all of the books that Jane had in her home Little, Brown, 1980), 72.” I found that extra fact quite
History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The library, and how she obtained them; and, best of all, a interesting.
New Yorker magazine. She has been a finalist for the remarkably comprehensive and helpful 90-page section With unanimous praise from reviewers who described
Pulitzer Prize, and a winner of the Bancroft Prize. Lepore of notes tied to footnotes from each chapter in the book this book as “luminous,” “marvelous,” “fantastic,” and
studied Benjamin Franklin’s letters, many of which refer (see an example in the next paragraph), and an index. “eloquent,” perhaps The Washington Post said it best:
to the content of his sister’s letters in his responses to Here is an example of the kind of information you will “We may know about Jane Franklin only because of her
them, which enabled the author to determine much of find by turning to the notes section from time to time. famous brother, but he is not why she matters.”
what Jane wrote. In Chapter 4, after the following sentences, there is a And Time Magazine said, “Jane Franklin’s indomitable
Adding enormously both to the pleasure and the footnote marked 8: “Men waged wars, but for women voice and hungry, searching intellect shine through these
information in Book of Ages is the unusually extensive each birth was another battle. No woman dared imagine pages; she will not be forgotten, and the world is richer
162-page reference section that follows the almost 300- herself spared, not by grace, not by wealth: pain was for it.”
page history that is the heart of the book. While some will her portion. Even if she survived childbirth, she could Read this book. You will be richer for it.

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