Showing posts with label bear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bear. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Lincoln’s Poem About Working Terriers

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Abraham Lincoln had the first Presidential dog ever photographed -- a dog named "Fido" -- and he is surely the first President to...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Faulkner's Feist

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I find that some paragraphs need shattering . A case in point is this one from William Faulkner's The Bear in which he writes of th...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Beast of Exmoor and Other Nonsense

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A repost from February 2009 Stories of feral "beasts" lurking in the darkness of the English countryside have been around f...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Bear Versus Squid

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Over at Sea Monster , Emmett Duffy has this awesome pictue of a black bear with a Humboldt Squid -- no doubt a beach scavage. Source .
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Bear Meets Deer

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This Whitetail buck was struck by a car just as young and hungry black bear happened by. Mother Nature takes care of the rest. No, wildlif...
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Monday, December 14, 2009

Hook and Bullet Conservation Results in More Game

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The picture at right is an American bobcat taken in Michigan. We have bobcats all over the U.S., and in surprisingly large numbers -- over ...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Cull of the Wild

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This book set out the tenets of wildlife management still in use today. This post is reprinted from this blog circa June, 2005 D...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

A Recidivist with a Tattoo, And This Is News?

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Talk about your bad news bears! The state of Maryland has caught a recidivist , whom they have identified from his tattoos. The perpetrator...
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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Hunting and Fishing Like Adults

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This is a recycled post from August 18, 2006 prompted by a recent discussion, in the comments section to a post about mounted Maryland fox h...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Grizzlies Are Coming Back!

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Forbes Magazine lets us know that Grizzlies are coming back , even as they remind us (however gently) that John McCain is an idiot: WASHIN...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Otter Ironies

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One of the ironies of wildlife management is that the very devices that pushed so much wildlife to the edge of extinction -- guns and traps...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Dangerous? Compared to What?

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According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics , for every person killed by a black bear in North America, 60 are killed b...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Coffee and Provocation

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Disrespecting Tintin: Snowy (Milou), Tintin's dog, did not make the first list of inductees into the "Dog Walk of Fame ." Dogs...
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Thanks for the Fear J.R.

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J.R.' Absher's blog got my attention this morning with his post that an aggressive rabid bear had been shot in Maryland. It was at...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Great Headlines in America, and a Great Blog Too

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I love it when I find a new site that is simple and well done. That's certainly the case for " The Outdoor Pressroom " which ...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

Zumbo was (Mostly) Right

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Sharp-shooting prairie dogs in South Dakota with a truck-mounted professional-grade shooting stand . Some years back, I was lurking on...
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