Oh the smell of snow is in the air. Today is hovering just above freezing with overcast skies and a good breeze. It smells like it will snow today. I remember distinctly my first sense of having the smell and feeling that it would snow. It was the fall of 1957 and my family lived in northern Maine in the town of Easton on the Canadian border. I was on my way home from second grade right in front of a cooperage. That's a place that made wooded barrels for the potato farmers. I got a sense that it would soon snow, long before watching any thing like a forecast on TV. I'm not sure we even had a TV then, nor were there any stations within reach as I recall. By the time I had walked the mile or so back to our apartment it was indeed snowing. It was September, not long after school had started. Today the sky and the wind brought me back to that moment like it was yesterday, not some 51 years ago.

NWF Action Fund is sad to share the news of the loss of our dear colleague, Tony Dean.

The sportsmen community lost a great friend and advocate with the passing of Tony.

Please help us remember and honor Tony Dean by adding your memorial to our wall.