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Mark Walters For Agri-View
Jan 7, 2023
Jan 7, 2023

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Michelle Chiaro poses with Mark Walters in happier times. She was an incredible mother, nurse and soulmate, Walters says.

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Good friends greet each other after a great day of fishing this past summer on an annual fly-in fishing trip to Shultz Lake in Ontario, Canada.

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Selina Walters harvests her ninth turkey this past spring.

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Mark Walters mug for Agri-View 2022 — Mark Walters

Mark Walters lives near Necedah, Wisconsin. An outdoor-adventures writer since 1989, he enjoys hobby farming, adventure and anything outdoors. "If I wasn't earning a living as a writer I would want to be a beef farmer," he says. Email sunsetoutdoors@tds.net to reach him.