How-To
Avoiding Car-Deer Collisions
Defensive driving, seasonal awareness and liberal deer harvest reduce wrecks.
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A Sandhills Branding
Unless you live on a ranch, there’s a good chance you’ve never seen
a cattle branding. Until a few years ago, such was the case with me, with my
only reference to the tradition coming from watching cowboy westerns as a kid.
Then I was actually invited to a couple.
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From Blossoms
to Jelly Jar
Wild plums can be enjoyed in the dead of winter with a little
late-summer work.
How
to Find Birds
While luck always plays a role in finding birds, it is experience
and technique that guides expert birders to their quarry. Equally
important is the amount of time spent searching. Birds are
not found by sitting on a sofa reading the Sunday newspaper.
Making
a Bucket Warmer
Instructions for making a cheap, reliable, candle-powered hot
seat that will double as a gear carrier for hunting from a
ground blind for ice fishing.
Nestbox
Plans
Watching a family of birds grow to maturity is a backyard pleasure
sometimes overlooked. These "one-board" and "two-board" birdhouse
plans can help you become the landlord for a variety of feathered
tenants.
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