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Mark J. Hainds

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in Marceline, Missouri, The United States

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http://www.sweetbill.com/

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Outdoors & Nature, Nonfiction

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Mark Hainds is a leading expert on artificial regeneration of longleaf pine, having worked two decades as the Research Coordinator for The Longleaf Alliance (LLA) and as a Research Associate with Auburn University (AU). He resigned these dual positions in Nov, 2014, to walk the Texas-Mexico Border, a trek he finished seven weeks later, on December 21st, 2014. "Border Walk", his nonfiction account of the trek, was published in 2018. The walk was also featured in a full-length film on PBS titled "La Frontera." On the two year anniversary of finishing the eastern half of the US-Mexico Border, Mark returned to El Paso, Texas and walked west through New Mexico, Arizona, and California. On November 24, 2017, Mark became the first person in histor ...more

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	Year of the Pig: Hunting Feral Hogs by Mark J. Hainds (Goodreads Author), Mark Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Steven Ditchkoff (Foreword) 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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