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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    From this morning's hike(30Aug2024)
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    AK Sheep, Population Observations

    1-2 lambs! That is the problem in the last 4 years, extremely low lamb production and survival. Winter rains, icing and rain on snow events are the primary cause. The winters of sugar snow that blows away may be less common in the future.
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    Snacks

    Nuts. Almonds, walnuts, pecans, etc. At home I typically have oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries every morning and a quarter cup of almonds every evening. I keep a bag of almonds in my pickup glove compartment. Almonds per 100grams have 50 grams of fat, 21 grams of proteing,13 grams of...
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    A couple of hours in western Montana

    Elk are starting to bugle. Nights in the 40s in the high country. Nice time of year. Perfect hiking conditions.
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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    Thats funny. This juvenile osprey yesterday made a grebe pretty nervous, but he was looking for fish.
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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    From this morning's hike here in western Montana
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    So the person survived a Grizzly bear attack by killing the bear, but the rest of us should do it differently. Makes sense, right?

    I spent over 30 years in interior Alaska, had 5 bad bear encounters, sprayed 2 and it was effective. The problem with handguns (I own a .44 magnum redhawk) is the brain of a grizzly bear is about the size of a baseball and they can charge at a speed faster than a horse. If that first shot...
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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    Vole population is at an all time high here in western Montana. So the brood size and survival rate of hawks and owls had been high also.
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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    Some high country mulies from this week's hike.
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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    A couple of July bucks at dawn
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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    Earlier this summer, bull canvasback acting like a bull
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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    Montana trumpeter swan at sunrise yesterday morning.
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    Pics of animals you weren't hunting

    Montana gobblers in our pasture

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