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We had a very exciting day in Paint Lick yesterday. Congressman Ben Chandler and Garrard County Judge-Executive John Wilson made their way through each of the businesses in downtown to see firsthand the damages caused by the May 2, 2010 flood. Following them was an entourage that included Channel 27 news, local newspapers and photographers, business owners, and local residents.

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We are slowly recovering from the great flood of Paint Lick, 2 May 2010. After receiving a phone call about our truck being underwater, Piper and I drove down to the office and remained in the building during the flood, thus we were able to save most of all our important equipment (computers, etc.) and files. The office had about 30 inches of water in the downstairs portion of our building.

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During our second year of following Indiana bats out of hibernation from northern Tennessee, we tracked one bat approx. 60 miles north into Kentucky (just south of Danville). She used a dead tree just south of Yosemite, KY on her way, but then we lost her signal due to weather.

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Day 2. This morning Steven came to me looking really weak/sick. Our trip to the divide has been altered due to his sickness. It has been decided that we are going to continue with the expedition but not to the divide. We are reworking our trip and schedule. We are heading to a place in the Blade River called Tea Kettle and Ramos.

Day 1. We spend most of the day preparing for our journey to the Maya Mountain Divide. It took use several hours to find our pack of equipment that was left here last year. For our nine day hike we have three porters to help carry our supplies like 120lb of food. Once packed, we set two trail cameras around BFREE. I hope we are ready to head out right after breakfast tomorrow.

Chris, Price and I left for Belize in the early morning 11 March 2010. The flight out of Cincinnati was with a beautiful red sun rise. We were picked up at the airport by Steven and we headed to BFREE. While driving across Belize we were welcomed by a beautiful red glow of the savanna burning.

I joined up with folks from the BGAD, KDFWR, and TNC to volunteer on a prescribed burn on a couple of their native grassland restoration sites. On site we had 4 UTVs outfitted with 100 gal water tanks, several drip torches, various hand tools, and a back up engine provided by the Depot. The weather cooperated and the burns were a success. It total, we burned about 50 - 60 acres.

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We knew it would be cold, but we were ok with that. Our long journey in the warm truck ended with a cold blast from the Tennessee winter. Although we were prepared with warm layers and water-proof gear including chest waders, it was not enough for me. After spending about an hour in and out of the water, we settled onto the seine to pick bugs.

Very comfortable, but easy to tear the soft part along the calf. I think that has happened twice so far. If you are careful (which we are not), they are very good for long term wear during the day or night.

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Review – I love it! I have had a number of headlamps in the past five years and this is by far my favorite, so much so that I bought it twice…because I lost the first one. L Now, if you are looking for a heavy duty, car headlight brightness, will last a month type of headlamp like the ones that require an external battery pack, this is probably not for you.