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  Mark Taylor

• Slipstream cycling team pushing clean riding -

  The New York Times ran a really interesting article today about a cycling team that's going above and beyond in order to prove its riders are not using performance-enhancing drugs.

  
  

• Another use for GPS -

  Here's one for Jay Leno's Stupid Criminal file.

• Cochran on Sunday Hunting -

  For another objective look at the Sunday hunting survey, check out the great column by my good friend Bill Cochran.

• Killing rock snot -

  Scientists in New Zealand have found a way to kill didymo, an invasive algae sometimes called rock snot. Didymo has appeared recently in a couple of Virginia trout streams, including the Smith and Jackson river tailwaters.

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While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.

Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.

After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.

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