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I really don’t care if it’s mowing the lawn, going for a hike or just pulling over along side the road to check out a turtle or odd looking bird, time is better when we can appreciate the other species sharing our outdoors. It doesn’t have to be hunting, fishing or trapping--active or consumptive outdoor recreation. Sometimes I get a thrill ‘shooting’ with a camera.

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As the latest ban takes effect in California count me a skeptic as to the across the board benefit provided the target species of California condors. Am I a condor hater? Not one bit, I’m more frustrated with the seeming attribution to hunters as the source for the condor struggles. As has been duly noted for centuries lead has been used in an array of commercial practices and is found naturally occurring. I don’t doubt other means of preventing mortality in condors is part of the plan, don’t doubt it one bit, but lead has been used in paint, batteries, in plumbing, insecticides and more.

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hen under control, working its way slowly through crackling logs surrounded by melon-sized rocks in a fire ring, it is pleasing and beneficial. When out of control, pushed by winds through dry prairie grasses, it is both dangerous and devastating.For people who spend time outdoors, campfire is good and wildfire is bad. So for much of the last century, forest and prairie land managers went to great lengths to prevent or suppress fires that had the potential to burn large areas.

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That’s not the case in our home as even with a/c we spend all our down time outdoors. But here it is July 1 and we’ve not turned on the central air yet. Why have it? I figure we’re down to 2 months to even have a use for it. but we’re spoiled...and need to have the security of a/c if we want to use it.

A lost big game hunter of the Yukon or a broke down sea angler adrift at sea will do anything in the name of self preservation. I learned that as a teenager reading the book ALIVE, the story of the South American Rugby team’s who’s plane crashed in the mountains and the struggle to survive including the desperation of cannibalism. Pushed to the edge and limit humans take whatever necessary steps to survive, so really the issue of illegal wildlife trade in poverty and war stricken countries, while mostly untold, is less surprising than the recoil on my shot-gun. It’s inevitable.

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Creating better access, flooded vegetation for fish habitat. Not to mention giving communities a sigh of relief which depend upon the big lake for drinking water. Get this: we are inching closer to an elevation of 1820 (around 1818 last I checked) it has been 5 years since we could say that. wow....even that surprises me.

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Without a doubt the Supreme Court ruling yesterday 5-4 in support of individual rights to keep and bear arms is a huge sigh of relief across the nation. Or at least it should be and it also should be short lived. Inhale and get back to work as my dad would say.

Personally I was confident the ruling would come down in favor of gun owners, but counting many of my friends and colleagues in the same group the discussion leading upto this ruling, the razor thin 5-4 margin will hopefully serve notice to gun owners and hunters across the United States not to take anything for granted. Am I telling every individual in the nation they must buy an NRA membership? No. That’s an individual decision to make, I am alerting citizens to keep their eye on gun and conservation issues among their elected officials at all levels at all times.

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