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  1. Ray

    Black Bears in the News

    Herrero has published a book on bear attacks, and is a professor in Calgary. He might have retired by now. He has co-authored many other bear/human studies for various agencies and the media seek out his opinion every time these event occur. He and Tom Smith in UT both publish misleading data...
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    Black Bears in the News

    Another write up on the attack on the field workers. Link
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    Black Bears in the News

    This link states that they have a well developed nictitating membrane. It is citing the book The Carnivores, by RF Ewer. This is a link to a page on Google Books from Contributions to the comparative anatomy of the mammalian eye. If I read that page correctly many bears have nictitating membranes.
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    Black Bears in the News

    It will have an effect on the nose, mouth and lungs if inhaled or ingested. The few cops that I know who have been exposed in training say its the eyes that react the worse to it. If you can you stop breathing and move out of the mist zone, you recover quickly. If you inhale it you will have to...
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    Black Bears in the News

    By now, most folks should be aware that last weekend there were two fatalities due to black bears here in AK. First was a teenage boy running in a mountain race. He appeared to be chased down and killed. The bear was still on the body when responders made it up the mountain and using Find My...
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    Ketogenic meal plans - What do you do in the backcountry?

    Everything I have read over the last five years about high fat-low carb eating is that it takes several months to force your mitochondria to make the change to fat metabolizing. Paleo eating for fat loss with 50 grams of carbs a day helps ween the body slowly into fat metabolizing. This can take...
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    Moose Calls: "Here Moose, Come Here."

    When there are no moose in your area there will be no response to your calling. On a more serious note, your brush raking needs to be as violent and random as possible. Even though bulls have responded to ax thunks chopping up fire wood, they are more likely to respond to breaking branches and...
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    The worst game or fish you've eaten

    Late winter ptarmigan are another type of flying liver. Sometimes spruce hens in mid winter are pretty hard to eat. Both will cook up with some strong sauces to reduce the flavor, but its still a pot of willow bud flavored meat. Rutting caribou from late September to late October is harsh. Its...
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    Is adding nitrates mandatory when making jerky?

    Safe for bears.... Seriously though, who the hell would make jerky from bear meat?
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    leaving Rib meat on the bones in Alaska Unit 18

    Page 22 of the regulations spell it out clear unit by unit. In 18 front quarters and rear quarters stay on the bone and you can bone out the rest. Keep in mind that this states "quarters" an not "legs". Based on the wording on the left side of page 22 someone may not have understood that when...
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    Baked breakfast cookie

    Pumpkin Breakfast Cookies (gluten free, clean eating) - Leelalicious Someone saw this and thought it was too similar to my sweat potato bark. It's not. I have made pumpkin bark before, which was ok, but not as fulfilling as the sweat potato bark. If you want to make your own cliff bars, this...
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    The Smokehouse

    now I am hungry....another three hours till lunch
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    Kachemak Bay advice

    What glacier? The Grewink? There is a state park trail system over there to get from Halibut Cove over the ridge to the glacier valley for a view. Also a well established trail from the beach right up the valley to the glacier lake. Hiring a water taxi from Homer might be a better option for...
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    Kachemak Bay advice

    I recently learned about VRBO, which is a slightly different version of AirBNB. VRBO will allow rental outside the platform if the home owner is up for that. VRBO shows a few homes on Halibut Cove that are up for rent. There are lodges further west in Seldovia that offer fishing.
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    I'm booking a DIY Alaskan Moose Hunt

    That bowsite post is from KevinD on this forum. He has shared some of his gear info on here, but not a thread specific to the hunt.
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    Close Look at my '17 Caribou Fly-In Gear List/Meal Plan

    It is the terrain in the unit he drew a permit in. It is the foothills and mountains of the Talkeetnas. Just to the east of that unit is the lower rolling hills and flats of the Nelchina basin, which contains a large herd of caribou. Not much of unit 13 is as flat as the north slope, more like...
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    Considering becoming a home appraiser

    Too soon, but damn that's funny
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    Leukotape vs Kinesio tape

    Kinesio tape...I see people use it in long strips down their back or legs. Its very flexible. The human skin is not connected to muscle in any meaningful, structural way, and it stretches well. So what do they think the tape is going to do? Something flexible, stuck to something that is also...
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    Close Look at my '17 Caribou Fly-In Gear List/Meal Plan

    In the freezer bag sticky thread in the Cooking section I posted my basic sweet potato bark recipe - page 3. I use this for breakfast now that I have moved away from eating grains. The bark replaces Cliff bars, Power Bars, etc. and adds in vegetation which I found to be missing from many...
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    Close Look at my '17 Caribou Fly-In Gear List/Meal Plan

    no need for the hatchet if you are bringing a saw. Not much to chop or split unless you are camping down in a river valley. Even then you can stick to smaller pieces that break by hand or snap off after a little saw work. Depending on the critters Mike may drop you in the Talkeetna valley or on...

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