On December 1, 2007, Tom Billingsley and I sat in camp and watched the geese lift off. I related this on an earlier blog. Recently I uploaded the short video I made right after the geese lifted off. Even though many, if not most, of the geese had already flown, you’ll get the idea of [...]
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The fog was thick.
How thick was it?
If you looked up into the air you might fall over from vertigo. It was the type of tule fog that would prevent us from reaching our duck club on Webb Tract before daylight, in fact we didn’t even leave the dock until nearly first light.
We’d crossed Frank’s Tract [...]
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Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Farm Management, Hunting, Hunts with a Professional Hunter or Outfitter, Land Ownership, Ranch Management, Wildlife habitat, goose, mule deer, outdoors, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
On a recent hunting trip in Alberta, I was surprised to learn that in Alberta, the government does not permit land owners to lease hunting rights to other people, in other words the hunting rights cannot be segregated from the land and sold to somebody else on a periodic basis. However, my guide could hunt [...]
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Posted in California Delta, Duck hunting, Ecology, Farm Management, Hunting, Land Ownership, Wildlife habitat, goose, outdoors, permanent marsh, pheasant, real estate, seasonal marsh, wildlife, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »
After a morning of enthusiastic and exhausting pheasant hunting, with a bird each in the bag, Rob and I trudged through a final field of marsh on our way back to camp.
I glanced over to my brother, and he pointed skyward – above our main duck hunting pond. A large flock of mallards was circling [...]
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