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My dad had said that he would "Take a walk in the woods before ending up in a nursing home." Unfortunately, he developed early on-set dementia and did spend his final four years in one.

Lesson learned the hard way. I got a good warning of the old "shit happens" a few years ago when a friend fell off a roof and it took well over a year for him to recover. A neighbor fell in his garage recently and he just returned home after two months in the hospital. He may never fully...

Slugz; I have to complement you on your success, and the vibrant colors on all the photos that you post. What do you use to take the pics?

I'm just finishing up some winter shop projects, and spent the last couple days plowing out from our first signifigant snowfall. My primary exercise/property improvement program has just been approved by the County Forestry : clearing almost 8 acres of budworm killed balsam and spruce trees...

An answer to some of these type actions such as the grizzly permits is for the Fish & Wildlife dept. to issue unlimited licenses with a regional mortality cap. Wyoming does this with mountain lions. $$$ coming in, and the game management goals are generally accomplished.

My hunting partner has enough points for a NR GEN elk tag, but it is likely that we will only be applying for a couple limited (cow/calf) tags. I was fortunate to fill two tags in WY in 2023, and don't know if I will ever have enough points to draw a GEN again. I sure liked it better when we...

Those wolf encounters are much like lion encounters. Even though I live in the middle of NE Minnesota wolf habitat (2,500+++ wolves), I have only seen a handful in the woods, and no real opportunity to shoot one if it was legal and I was inclined to. Most of my sighting were when they were...

It's all good. I miss spell (is that even correct?) all the time. The loose/lose thing just comes back to me all the time because of the official government letter that I received.

Alright guys, it's time for me to be the spelling police. I was once given a 2 day suspension from a security job for "loosing" a key. It worked out for me though because they were short staffed, I was paid OT after my suspension to come in on my regular days off. You can probably guess that...

That skree/rubble is always a bitch, especially since it is usually on a steep slope. I would rather go up than down, and I've been a lot of places where if things went bad I would likely have to hit the rescue button on my InReach. It's good that you had some reliable help nearby. Have a...

Tough news. Did you have much trouble getting out from where you broke your leg/ankle/foot?

CoV: What constitutes a trophy cow? I shot an old cow last year in WY...she was the biggest cow that I have ever killed, and also the toughest. The locals tell me that I should shoot a calf, but I just can't allow myself to do that. Good Luck.

In regards to SPAM; I am often up very early, and scads of that stuff plugs up the forum when I log on. But it gets cleaned out quickly once the moderators start their day, and unless someone decides to stay up all night to smack them when they appear, I think that is the best that they can do.

So that's what they mean when they say, "Deer in the headlights look."

Both. The wolf/deer dynamic reach a balance point with a very low deer population, but a number of severe winters (even in the midst of "global warming") had decimated the herds and the 3,000 plus wolves in NE MN have limited the recovery.

Darn right....it was 19 degrees here yesterday morning, and I woke up to 7" of fresh snow. I'm so not ready for this.

I'm headed to the deer camp on Thursday, and due to the complete collapse of the NE MN deer herd over the last ten years, I do not even plan to get a deer license. On the exercise front, instead of sitting in a tree, I will do some grouse hunting. I will use the UTV on the trails that we have...

What happened to all the posts here after August 25th?

Clearly, the Angels above approved also.