I always enjoy getting news from Camp Patriot. Camp Patriot is an awesome effort from Micah and Bill Clark which provides an opportunity for disabled veterans to get back outside and partake of the great outdoors. ~DesertRat Here is part of the e-mail that I recently received from Bill: We are preparing several events; snow [...]
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January 4th, 2011
Ram Outdoorsman A Pretty Impressive Truck For Those Who Love the Outdoors
Just before Christmas I completed an extended test drive of the 2011 Ram Outdoorsman. This was not your typical test drive where you drive the vehicle around the block and kick the tires. I had this truck for two weeks and I parked my F250. I’m a Ford man all the way having driven Ford [...]
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Interesting question re: gun free zones
There was some argument regarding whether a private entity which forbade firearms in an area, or in parked cars, might assume some liability to a person who became a victim of crime because they could not defend themselves. The usual…
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Lessons In Happiness: Holiday Edition
Continuing the Lessons In Happiness series I just wanted to share a great note from the Inbox, it’s letters like these that fuel the Trek Light fire (figuratively, I promise we don’t throw them in…
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Is Holding a 100-mile Race in Glacier National Park Unwise?
A biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service near Glacier National Park called plans for a 100-mile race through the countryside idiotic, saying:
“It’s contrary to what we tell everyone,” he said. Running on trails in grizzly bear habitat is not recommended because people are more apt to run into bears.
He compared it to skateboarding [...]
January 4th, 2011
Great Elk Tour to Promote Habitat Conservation
MISSOULA, Mont. – A traveling exhibit of world-class trophy elk is designed to help the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation inform the public about America’s ongoing need for wildlife habitat stewardship and conservation. RMEF’s 2011 Great Elk Tour, themed “Great Elk Need Great Habitat,” is appearing across the U.S. at sports and outdoor shows, sporting goods [...]
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Undercover HSUS Agent Caught Abusing Animals
This has to be a bit of a bizarre story, one that actually typifies the perverted mentality of fringe groups such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). This was brought to my attention by a reader and so I got reading. If it wasn’t so revealing of the sick and twisted minds [...]
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People are Apt to Freak Out When New York City Gets Some Snow
East Coasters got a taste of the snow the West has been enjoying this winter. One New Yorker bagged a once-in-a-lifetime experience skiing down Park Ave…while being towed at 40mph.
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January 4th, 2011
On winning converts
A while back, there was a lot of blogging regarding a William Holda, president of Kilgore College, who had said, quite incorrectly, that CCW permittees shot each other at the Luby’s massacre shooting. So blogger Popgun decides to take him…
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Life Imitating Fiction or Fiction Imitating Life?
And we wonder about many things! Related ArticlesJib-Jab’s 2010 Year In Review (0)She Works Hard For Her Money (0)Sgt. Joe Friday Back On The Job. Takes On Immigration And Eric Holder (0)Jib-Jab’s 2009 Year In Review (5)Let’s Play Wolf Bingo (7)Mouse Trap Cheese Commercial – Too Good Not To Share (0)We The People (0)
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Bear Creek Mississippi Hunt
You might remember last year’s hunt that my dad and I had in west-central Mississippi’s bluff country. Dad wasn’t able to make the trip, but I made the trip 5 hours west for a couple days of hunting. Last year we were in the meat of the post-rut, but this year I was hoping to [...]
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Small Town Sheriffs Getting Sick and Tired of Rescuing Stranded Skiers
With this season’s epic snowfall come more inexperienced skiers venturing into the backcountry, and their getting lost and calling 911 from their cell phones is taxing small town police budgets.
“It’s really taken a toll on my guys, my budget and my equipment,” he said. “We ended up tearing a track on one of our ATVs.”
Not [...]
January 4th, 2011
Check OUT Saddler’s Woods Exhibit
Saddler’s Woods Conservation Association (SWCA) will exhibit artifacts found in Saddler’s Woods at the William G. Rohrer Memorial branch of the Camden County Library at 15 MacArthur Blvd. in Haddon Township. The display, which will run throughout January, includes a variety of historical and natural items that were unearthed during SWCA’s restoration activities in the [...]
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Sheep LED Art – I Ain’t Baaaaahd
Hat tip to reader “Jim” for sending the link. Related ArticlesMost Successful Method Of Destroying Coyotes And Wolves (2)The Obligatory And Annual Post On Trophy Hunting And Messing With The Gene Pool (3)Beware Identity Theft – Part VII (2)Pitch Black Survival (6)Synopsis Wolf February 7th 2010 (15)Half Man – Half Goat? Open Air W/ Tom [...]
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Quake Hits Near Utah Resorts, No Damage Reported
A 4.6 magnitude earthquake shook two Utah ski resorts that no one ever goes to: Eagle Point and Brian Head Resort. There was no damage reported, so why bother even bringing it up? Well friends, it’s easy to forget that the Wasatch is parked alongside a massive fault line and folks in Utah are all [...]
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Cold Winter Ahead – Or, Government At Work
It’s late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets of weather forecasting, etc. When he looked at the sky, [...]
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Vermont Deer Harvest Increases in 2010
WATERBURY , VT — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department has received about 95 percent of deer harvest reports from big game reporting stations. Earlier reports suggested that the 2010 deer harvest would be lower. Harvest reports received by the department now indicate the total deer harvest from youth, archery, rifle and muzzleloader seasons combined [...]
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Off to the ATA Show
Well it’s finally time for the 2011 Archery Trade show in Indianapolis and I’ll be there to cover all the action and let everyone know what new and exciting products will be coming out over the next few months from some of the top manufactures in arch…
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Thousands Of Gray Wolves Mysteriously Leap Off Cliffs?
*Update* More dead red-wing black birds and starlings in Louisiana. Maybe that is the headline we can expect to see in the future as Mother Nature “balances” itself. (Insert hysterical laughter sound track.) So, what’s up with Arkansas? Has Bill Clinton been hanging around down there and has somehow caused these mysterious deaths of red-wing [...]
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Eating Local – Invasivores?
Most of us know that there’s been a trend over the last couple of years toward eating local and sustainable food. As part of that movement, wild game meat has risen with a new popularity… evidenced in sites like Hank’s Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, Georgia Pelligrini’s eponymous site, and Jackson Landers’s The Locavore Hunter. Personally, [...]
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