The Drake

Cigarette-Butt Dries

THE MINNESOTA Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff were too busy dumping two thousand young rainbows into the small stream to notice my camera clicking away beside them.

Three men wandered around the hatchery truck in long unwashed waders. Their hands grasped nets that frothed with rainbows as they walked down the bank to the water. It was a short procession that involved taking scoops of fish from the brown-stained hatchery tank and then lumbering them just a few steps away. My eyes

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