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Ice fishing: The shortest season ever

<strong>S</strong>eason is a word thatĢƵ used in all kinds of ways. We just endured the merciful end of a disappointing football season. Deer season always feels too short. The construction season is generally considered as all but the winter months, and the ...

Readers who feed birds know how the antics of small but energetic creatures can cheer a winter day. The comings and goings of chickadees, titmice, blue jays, nuthatches and woodpeckers offer welcome diversion. Male cardinals are especially striking. Their vivid red, posed against the winter ...

ThereĢƵ no photo of a downed ruffed grouse to make this column complete. ThatĢƵ fine. I didn’t kill one the lone day I hunted grouse this year. It wasn’t for lack of trying that I did not down a grouse that day. I came home with two empty shell casings to show for three windy, snowy ...

This past deer season offered the rare pleasure of hunting on persistent snow. Except for the wind-blown rain torrents of opening day and the first Saturday—which, ironically, are the two days of greatest hunter participation—snow covered the ground for the rest of the season. Even in the ...

Deer statistics hinge on hunter cooperation

Most people consider statistics to be tedious and boring. Include me in that company except when it comes to statistical data that biologists use to manage wildlife. ThatĢƵ an application in which statistics come alive, because the subjects of research, like deer, bears, wild turkeys and ...