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    Weirdest Things Found

    I was in Perkins County if I recall.
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    Weirdest Things Found

    Doing stream surveys in middle of nowhere NW SD a number of years ago. My colleague and I were doing pebble counts to measure the substrate. You reach down to the substrate blindly, pick up the first piece of substrate you touch, measure it, and repeat over and over. I reached down without...
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    Bear Encounters

    I worked in SW AK for 8 years. I had a lot of brown bear encounters. I had my hands on quite a few through research projects. Closest I ever came to an unsedated bear was on a backpacking trip with two colleagues. We were going lightweight and shared a tent. Second morning as we're half asleep...
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    What are you guys paying for gas?

    I don't think it has budged from $2.99 for 86/87 in Silver City, NM in two years.
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    Rear bag for shooting rifles

    I stuffed one of those squishy travel neck pillows into a small zippered storage bag. Works great with lots of vertical range for adjustment. It's compressible enough to stuff into the side pocket of my pack.
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    Broken Fibula

    Fractured my distal fibula and tibia the Monday before Thanksgiving. Spent the first week wearing a boot, using crutches, and keeping weight off the leg. I was finally able to see an orthopedic specialist last Monday.. There wasn't much they could do. He told me to walk on it if I wanted, ditch...
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    Bitterroot Turkeys

    Sone were brazen enough to let me know when the bird feeder was empty. Your chances of being murdered by a turkey are slim but not zero.
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    Bitterroot Turkeys

    Some Bitterroot yard birds. My dog had to watch them invade his yard daily so I'd let him retrieve one or two a year for his enjoyment.
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    How to pick a spot to get dropped off for a caribou hunt?

    Your air taxi will tell you where they can land. They know their usual spots and depending on the plane and gear configuration they'll know if they can get into a spot they don't typically land in. Generally when I hunted caribou the river corridors seemed to funnel herds and had plenty of...
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    Mearns quail need management change

    SW NM was sitting at 43% of our 12-month long term average for moisture about a week ago.
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    What's on the smoker today?

    Carnitas. Perhaps not the traditional way they're cooked but the smoker is a convenient way to cook without warming the house on a hot day.
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    History Found In the Field

    Old pottery piece from the Mimbres culture.
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    How heavy are your day packs?

    I had that same pack. It held my knife, a box of Remington Corelokts, maybe a grunt tube, and a snickers bar. You could track my movements from the previous year where the line of beggarticks cropped up in a meandering fashion.
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    Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

    Cherry end grain cutting board
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    Seizures in dogs

    This is a scan of a dog's brain. Luckily, Pecos' was 'unremarkable.'
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