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Unfortunately I have found fisher cats are opportunistic hunters so cats can be easy dinners,for example, I had a raccoon in a box trap, my boss saw it before I arrived. I went to receive it and found a tipped over open and empty trap, there was still snow on the ground and you could see what happened, there was a blood trail leading away and only fisher tracks.

Very informative. Thank you.

Question: I picked up a fawn to move it out of the road, where I am thinking it had been born. Anyway, I then read about how human scent would attract predators. I went back with a towel that had been rubbed in grass, to get my scent off the fawn..but it was gone. I am worried about my scent attracting predators to it, would the Mom have detected my scent and licked it off the fawn? I’ve been trying to find an answer for this…thanks!

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We live in the southeast and found a white marked tussock moth which lives in the north east.

Can anyone tell me the dimensions of the Spruce Gum boxes pictured in the article.  My son and daughter are re-enacting at a local historical park, circa 1870 and I want to try to recreate a few of the boxes for their characters.

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As someone who has tangled with a Bald Eagle, I can tell you that the useless Owls (any kind) are no match for the Bald Eagle. The Bald eagle is the perfect flying killing machine. If the Bald Eagle was to fight in a 15 round bout with a useless Owl, I would become rich as I would have placed my entire life savings on the Eagle—who of course would win.

As an ecologist and editor, I enjoyed this note and just now recommended it to a client in China.

In reply to Alan Smith- [I find] the point of Dr. Strauss is that though the wood on an acre that is thinned now holds less carbon, many other acres are not cut in that year and continue to grow. Now, if you say “but if the trees are not cut and burned, they’ll continue to hold carbon”- I say, but it’s naïve to think forests aren’t going to be cut one way or the other over time. What counts is that this work is properly done and that the total amount of wood stored in the regional forests does not decrease, but instead continues to increase. Otherwise, who wants to give up wood for construction, furniture, paper, etc.?

I wonder if similar research has been done on the Wood Thrush, and if their song evolved in the same way. Also does the Wood Thrush song vary within an individuals song and between different birds?

Bonita bonita: Did you get an answer to your question about the white circles on your tree?  I have the same thing and it is spreading and killing my trees.

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My mom and I were out beach combing on Fox Island, WA (state) and we found about 6 clay babies. They are such wondrous finds! Btw, Fox Island is in the Puget Sound.

How refreshing to hear voices of reason amidst the destructive nonsense so prevalent nowadays.  While millions busily strive to disassemble the ecosystem for fun, profit, and power while ignoring or denying what science and education try to tell them, the Seeleys patiently work to patch up the Old Globe for its grandchildren and other inhabitants.  It would be more than interesting to know the outcome of this fateful contest.

I am donating my body to anyone who can use any parts of this vessel that make it through old age. From ashes to ashes and dust to dust. It is in dying, it seems people cry for you. When you are living they barely remember you. If you can count on one hand the people who really cared, you can consider yourself lucky. Laugh for me when I am no more!!!!

Daniel- I did not keep the pace I’d envisioned. I got discouraged after yrs without a good harvest. Then when I gave up, they came like gangbusters, as if to say, don’t give up on us… so I started again with 5 lbs inoculated last Fall. I sold a few when they came so well, but it’s hard for a grower without a regular harvest to make the commitments a restaurant needs. I do it now just as a hobby and have perfected drying for preservation - great for storage over the winter and for gifts. I got my recent spawn from a new provider in the Portland, Maine area but I can’t in the moment remember their name.- Michael

Their is a Mother and 3 cubs that come through my yard. One of the cubs is so tiny. I think it probably only weighs 6 lbs. I’ve never seen such a tiny cub in my life. It’s the end of May I would have thought that cub would be a little bigger. Why is this cub so small and what are the chances of survival?

Why is a low kickback chain more difficult to sharpen? I have a Husqvarna 440 and from my research, this requires the narrow kerf chains, and I think the narrow kerf chains are all low kickback. Is there a non low kickback chain that I can use with this saw that’s a good match?

In response to the questions above, I read that some trees have developed different strategies to avoid self-pollination. In some conifers,for example, the male cones are at the base of the tree while the female cones are at the top, making it unlikely that a tree can pollinate itself by the pollen falling down into the [female] cones of the same tree.

Kerri that birdhouse with the mud and small opening is probably bees or wasps. I had one two years ago on my porch and I couldn’t paint my porch because they kept chasing me away. So be careful. They got me more than once.

I own 440 acres and many stone walls and a couple of root cellars.
This nonsense has stirred the town lawmakers into making a law that fines me $500 per day if I disturb my walls.
I am a farmer and agree that exterior walls can be protected but those within my property are mine and should not be used to give unfettered access to my property by ‘do-gooding’ busybodies or, worse still, town officials that have indicated a vehement dislike of me and my farm.