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The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is proposing 60-day duck-hunting seasons for 2013 and 2014. The recommendations were made Wednesday and are…

Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources officials are taking donated natural Christmas trees through Jan. 15 to use as fish habitat in…

All of Tennessee’s 15 state forests are now certified to comply with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s forest management standards.According to a…

Tennessee's Wildlife Resources Agency says it will be holding three online events in July to hear from anglers about fishing in the state. The agency will…

Public health officials say an invasive tick has been detected in Tennessee.According to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, multiple organizations…

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources says anglers can fish for free this weekend.The state's annual free fishing weekend is being held…

Tennessee's annual free fishing day is coming up this weekend. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will allow fishing without a license in the public…

A Trigg County man drowned over the weekend after authorities say he fell from a fishing pier on Lake Barkley.The body of 63-year-old Everett Pennington…

Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi is a host and reporter for Planet Money, telling stories that creatively explore and explain the workings of the global economy. He's a sucker for a good supply chain mystery — from toilet paper to foster puppies to specialty pastas. He's drawn to tales of unintended consequences, like the time a well-intentioned chemistry professor unwittingly helped unleash a global market for synthetic drugs, or what happened when the U.S. Patent Office started granting patents on human genes. And he's always on the lookout for economic principles at work in unexpected places, like the tactics comedians use to protect their intellectual property (a.k.a. jokes).

Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.