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December 27, 2020

Arizona Ponders Ban on Hunters' Scout Cameras

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Two "bear boxes" partway through painting and another vintage camera wrapped in UCP camouflage tape. Earlier this month the Arizon...
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December 20, 2020

Blog Stew with Spikes

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• Colorado's Most Dangerous Trails! Yes, Death-Defying Dangerous —  and Search & Rescue Will Come *For Free* Because They Are Crazed...
December 12, 2020

Black Bears Matter

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M. and I  been watching (and hauling food for) this young black bear sow since July, when she was brought to our neighbors' rehab center...
December 01, 2020

To Light a Camp Stove

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Jørgen Brønlund was a Greenland-born Inuit and the last to die. If you read this blog, you probably have read Jack London's famous sho...
November 13, 2020

3D Adobe Printing Could Be an Option for Southwestern Builders

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  Me in my good black shirt at a job site. Back when I was a college student, I spent a couple of summers laying adobe bricks in Taos, New M...
November 09, 2020

Pouring Bureaucratic Syrup on the Wolves

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Gray wolf (Colorado Parks & Wildlife) The people have spoken: Coloradans voted by a roughly 1% margin to order Colorado Parks & Wild...
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November 01, 2020

Skinny Mom, a "Cinnamon" Bear

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Cubs playing in the little spring — Mom still wearing last year's coat. About 45 minutes' walk from the house (over a steep ridge) i...
October 31, 2020

Federal Decision Complicates Proposed Colorado Wolf Reintroduction

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Gray Wolf (Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service. Coloradans are voting right now through Tuesday on a ballot measure to reintroduce gray wolv...
October 27, 2020

The Science of Trekking Poles—But This is Science You Can Ignore, If You Like

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Photo credit: National Park Service Some people love trekking (hiking) poles. The authors of the guidebook Don't Waste Your Time in the...
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October 23, 2020

The Great Hunt Lasted Only 300 Years?

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  A human following a giant ground sloth stepped in the big beast's tracks. While someone followed the giant sloth in what is now New Me...
October 22, 2020

The Kid Was Tougher than He Looked

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Some of the same Scouts, on a five-night trip the next summer. The other kid's initials were R. A., so I will call him that, in case he ...
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September 28, 2020

A Mountain Lion in the Morning

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  I hung this scout camera on May 9th at a little seep that I call "Camera Trap Spring." (You won't find that name on Google E...
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September 22, 2020

News Report: More Colorado Women Hiking with Firearms

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Chest-carry binocular case by Further Faster Design with concealed rear pocket. (The antler is just to prop it up.)  From Denver television ...
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September 21, 2020

Ghost Birds in the Sky

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Nick Vinciguerra collecting dead Violet-green swallows in Velarde, NM. (American Birding Assn.) T he unusually strong storm that swept throu...
August 31, 2020

When 'Influencers' Go Wrong

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Remains of a social-media influencer eaten by wolves (I wish). I used to hang out a lot with hunting and fishing writers — even publishe...
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