OUTDOOR STORIES - CARL FOWLER: A man who's life came 
full circle in a canyon ... details ahead on Passport to 
Texas Outdoor Stories.
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Carl Fowler has had a lifelong love affair with Palo Duro 
Canyon State Park that started in 1936 with his first visit.

And my mother taught in a small school in New Mexico, and we 
took an end of the year trip to the canyon. Keeping in mind the 
road was built into the canyon by the CCC in 1934, so it was a 
dirt road, and I remember as a small child going down there. I 
don't remember much, except, one of the high school boys had 
fallen and rolled to the edge of a cliff - so the story went. And 
when we road back to the school - the community which was 
about a hundred miles from the canyon. He had blood all over 
his face. He didn't go to the trouble of washing it off. And later, 
as I got older, and went to college and all of that, I realized that 
was his red badge of courage - that he had survived a fall and 
gone home to talk about it. :47

But that's not where Carl's Story ends. Today, he's 
president of Partners of Palo Duro Canyon Foundation. 

So I think that's a kind of interesting development. From the 
time that I was 5 years old to my present age of 74. Huh. A kind 
of full circle thing. :11

Thanks, Carl. Now it's your turn. Tell us your favorite 
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