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Get lost with Jim Schutze while canoeing the Neches River and find the wildlife refuge Dallas wants to dam to secure its water supply

By Jim Schutze April 23, 2009

Can't budge. My 22-year-old son, Will, is standing in the bow of the canoe breaking branches to allow us to go forward. I'm trying to paddle backward so we can turn, but the stern of the canoe is locked in a fist of vines and trunks, meaning we have managed to lodge both ends of the boat at the same... More >>>

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My son, Will, loaded the canoe at U.S. Highway 79 between Palestine and Jacksonville. On our trip down the Neches River, we paddled through
idyllic scenes of nature,
but we also saw signs of the undesirable social elements we had been warned to avoid.

When we reached the lake of dead trees, the handheld GPS device told us we were lost. Will climbed trees to scout for the main channel, but all he saw was a vast canopy of treetops stretching to the horizon.

Will said we should follow the water. I decided we had to obey the GPS. Not my best decision.

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