Author Sue Berg talks about three books in her Driftless Mystery series, featuring fictional La Crosse law officer Jim Higgins. (facebook.com) Mark Boardman, a member of the Vortex Optics marketing team, offers several holiday gift ideas for outdoors enthusiasts. (vortexoptics.com) Water resources activist and author Ted Rulseh talks about his new book, Ripple Effects, which discusses how lake residents and recreationists are loving our lakes to death. (uwpress.wisc.edu) In the Madison Outdoors Report, Pat Hasburgh, proprietor of D and S Bait, Tackle and Fly Shop, says there is open water action but no safe ice yet on the Madison chain. (facebook.com/dsbaitandtackle/)