Syracuse.com - Figura writing about Tunison Lab of Aquatic Science and a guy who collects antique boat motors (Jan. 13, 15)

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Here's what's on tap for this week:

FRIDAY: Interview with Jim Johnson, director at the Tunison Laboratory of Aquatic Science in Cortland. We talk about recent additions to their facility and a project that involves rearing and stocking a once-native bait fish in Lake Ontario.

Column: I talk about a hike last weekend with my daughter to Chimney Bluffs State Park and tale from a duck hunter who captured a painted turtle last week while out of Onondaga Lake.

SUNDAY: Interview with Stephen Shehadi, about his eye-opening motorboat engine collection that spans back to the mid-1920s.

Column: I talk to Moravia taxidermist about how one of his customers trapped a huge beaver this fall weighing 79 pounds, among other things.

Other stories I'm looking to do in Jan./February:

- I may be nuts, but I've like to try camping out with Boy Scouts in an igloo

- Ice fishing stories.. unique shanties, the use of plastics, etc..

- Trying my hand at a biathlon.

- Downhill skiing, cross country skiing.

- Wintertime orienteering.

-Snowshoe racing

- Indoor archery leagues

- predator hunting

- snow goose hunting

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