Tracking is a fun way to discover and learn a lot about animal behavior. The more you track animals the more you learn about them and the life they live. Learning how to track animals is an ancient survival skill. A skill our ancestors relied upon to hunt and forage. How to track animals learning how […]
Ticked Off
How to’s and tips on ticks, the other arachnids. Permethrin vs. Deet. Tick genus and diseases. Science’s secret weapon against the tick – the Western Fence Lizard. Lifesong Wilderness Adventures
Wilderness Trails
Below are a few quotes from “Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer,” by Andy Russell, a contemporary frontiersman, cowboy, broncobuster, trapper, guide and outfitter, rancher, and wildlife photographer. Wilderness Trails “In 1919, the provincial government of British Columbia launched a campaign against the imaginary ravages of the cougar on big game, domestic livestock, and human beings, […]
Support Intelligent Wolf Conservation!
Thank you to North American “Gray Wolf Recovery” project for the above picture. Here is the link. “Defenders of Wildlife–not always on the mark on wildlife issues–are spot on with this complaint: According to Idaho’s misleadingly named Sportsmen for Wildlife, who recently held three “predator derbies,” competitions where contestants vied to see who can kill the […]
Predators Fang
Elk in clear-cut “WHY HUNTERS ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR WILD PREDATORS” “Despite the self-serving propaganda coming from hunting groups that hunters are an adequate “tool” to control herbivore populations, research has demonstrated sufficient differences in the animals selected by predators compared to human hunters. Predators Fang In general, hunters take animals in the prime […]