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I’ve heard of this subspecies many years ago… in fact I am pretty sure I saw foot prints in the snow when I was 8… and I forgot about this animal for decades.

Very informative paper, thanks!

For an interesting view on the shamanic origins of flying reindeer and other aspects of Christmas check out this link.  You might not look at red mushrooms the same way.

Love this article!  Merry Christmas!

My home was built in 1908 and my staircase and downstairs trim is completely covered with burled Pine. I can only imagine how long it took to gather enough to decorate my home.  Just makes me appreciate it even more!

Very useful article, having spent the last several months on my farm rewalking the forested boundaries with my survey. I saw all of the things you wrote about. Now is my chance to do some blazing.

My Dad showed me how to split wood when in my early teens. We used an eight pound sledge hammer, we called it a “maul” and steel wedges.We had a couple of 30 foot Chinese Elm trees to work on, felled by high winds. Some of the larger pieces took three wedges.

I thought I was a latter day Abe Lincoln, or Jethro Bodine!

I looked out the window on my parents farm and saw what looked like German Shepherds crossing the field. I watched carefully because it is unusual to see neighbors’ dogs loose on other people’s property. They raise cattle in Mid-Missouri and loose dogs are not welcome. There were 2 of them, probably mates, and as they got closer, they looked more like coyotes, with a somewhat gangly gait. As they walked right across from the porch, I couldn’t tell if they were wolves or coyotes. They were clearly just passing through. My father told me that he had seen what looked like wolves there too, but in theory, they don’t exist in Mid-Missouri.

Really nice article!  Great that you gave more depth of info in the article.  Mushrooms really do seem to be a kingdom of their own. Very informative.  Nice job.

First:  great article, practical and nice tips, e.g. the fan in frig.  We have five decades and can add a tip or two.  Avoid sun, but don’t worry about daytime temps above 40.  Even 50-60, for a few hours won’t be a problem.  We hang the carcass, letting it air dry for a week or more, basically, until it is convenient for us.  Washing the gutted carcass is fine and wise.  With some moderate pressure, we wash off all blood and vestiges of entrails.  Just let it dry.  Butchers wash their USDA meat, so can you.  But be sure the ground is porous or you will be in mud. Hang from the hind quarters, and be sure the neck is fully open, to allow draining. Cut off head and hooves to reduce hair falling off an on to your meat.  If careful, remove hair with a lighter. Smell test is correct.  You will learn to trust it, more than sight.  More later, if time permits.

I have one that hangs around my yard/shop that seems to have been here this summer and last winter. Very curious as he pops in and out of my shop to say hi now and then. In the summer he/she looks out from under the deck. Good natural food here as I’m in a rural jack pine blueberry area. I think mice and chipmunks are part of its diet.

Not that pieces of lead bullets may not be contributing to lead levels in these birds but shouldn’t the study have indicated what levels of lead content those 500 pieces of lead bullet were raising the sheep carcasses to and if those levels were harmless or not?

Excellent article, thanks!
I will teach it to my kids on our next hike :-)

Fascinating! Thanks.
❤️ chickadees

Dave,

Having personal experience both as a midnight-stoker and recently a medium-rare wiener, I woke my dog up and nearly fell out of my rocking chair laughing! All great character building exercises that you represent perfectly.

All the best Sir.

Hello Mark,

1,600 Wow!
I planted 100 three year bare root from Miller Nursery 12-13 years ago. Years later I planted another 75 bare root and have taken nuts from the largest Black Walnut tree in VT and planted in pots and nursed them until ready. I have also planted nuts directly in the woods.

Some of the trees have done very well and others not so good. I have had trouble with deer and weather. My first 100 were doing really well the first few years until we had a wet summer and they bent over. Insects here early on. overall I only have one regret, not planting more 12 years ago on my forty acres. I’m a traveling salesman and I go to the Barre area here and there. I sure would love to visit your grove.

Nice general review.  Good to have someome with real time experience do a review under real use conditions.  Thank you.

Another great article from you folks.  I am glad to see you mentioned the need for wildlife corridors.  Our roadways (especially the higher speed ones) are an extreme danger and with fall being a high movement time for wildlife in search of mates and food, even more so.  Thank again.

The deer had been cleaning up apple drops in our yard for weeks, then abruptly stopped for the past month. The drops were piling up fast in their absence. Then, abruptly, the other morning every shred of apple was gone (aside for those still lingering on the tree). I assumed the deer had come back, but perhaps this time it was a bear.

I have forty acres in Hartland and wood like to get some butternut nuts from healthy trees to plant in my woods. Does anyone know where I could find 50 or so?

We have several beaver lodges in our wetlands here.  One beaver lodge seems to have disappeared.
It was there one day in the middle of the pond and a few days later, not trace of it at all.
Do they ever sink?