The L.A. (Logan Area) outdoor docket is looking pretty full. With cabin fever at its annual high pitch, the timing of all this stuff is oh so welcome.

Here’s a rundown of the highlights including the: DNR Sectional Meeting, the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and Ducks Unlimited (DU) Banquets and the Youth Spring Break Trout Fishing Day at Buffalo Creek.

Better hurry for the DNR annual Sectional Meeting this Tuesday evening (March 16) from 6-8 p.m. at the Chief Logan Conference Center just north of

Wal-Mart on Corridor G. This is your best chance to communicate with DNR on the seasons, bag limits or any other recommendations you may have.

If you can’t make it, have a friend pick up the paper work and send it in.

Do fill out the papers as talk is just that and won’t be officially registered.

If you want an earlier gobbler season, an elk program or whatever; you need to write that down!

Folks just can’t imagine what a tremendous opportunity this is to get a message heard.

Furthermore, if the turnout is light, Logan will be scrapped from the visited town docket!

Remember the old adage about the squeaking wheel.

Now on to the L.A. Area Chapter NWTF banquet. The 17th Annual event will also be held at the Chief Logan Conference Center with doors opening at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 20.

For tickets or other information call Chapter veterans Doyle or Linda Gore at 239-2606.

NWTF continues to put its money where its mouth is with the bulk of it coming right back home to the tune of more than a million dollars now in West Virginia alone!

Next in the sequence is the Buffalo Creek Watershed Association’s annual youth trout fishing day.

This year’s trout day is slated for Monday, April 5, 2010 commencing at 11 a.m. at the Justin McCoy Memorial Park at Latrobe. For more information, call Perry Harvey at 583-6073.

Look for a feature on this highly active Watershed group in the April issue of Wonderful West Virginia magazine.

Later in April is the Ducks Unlimited banquet which is slated for Saturday April 17.

It’s to commence at 5:30pm at the Logan Country Club on Route 10 north of Chapmanville. DU dates back to the Dust Bowl days of the Great Depression casting the mold for NWTF and other conservation groups.

For DU tickets of other info, call Josh Ervin at 688-1930.

In other news, the statewide trout stocking was running behind per the sensational snowstorms of February but is being caught up as quickly as possible. Stocking rates will thus be at higher than normal levels until caught up.

Lastly, the frosty March weather will hopefully keep the tree flowering at bay long enough to prevent the dreaded effects of late frost killing and associated fruit and nut (mast) failure. Here’s in high hopes for a bumper crop of acorns, hickory nuts and other outdoor food staffs.