COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL If you’ve been a regular reader of my column over the years, then you know I’m not a fan of house cats that run around […]
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SAMUEL: Do deer and turkey eat morels?
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL I ran into some friends as I walked at the Morgantown Botanic Garden and they asked me whether deer and turkey eat morel mushrooms. I […]
SAMUEL: Some external signs of deer problems
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Periodically I get emails from readers who have seen a deer that just doesn’t look normal. They write because they want to know the cause. […]
SAMUEL: A bird’s-eye view
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL What land vertebrate has the largest eye? The obvious answer would be the elephant, but that isn’t correct. The answer is the ostrich. Ostriches are […]
SAMUEL: Hunting shed antlers is a passion for some
I know people who literally enjoy hunting shed antlers as much as they do hunting deer. A married couple who are bowhunting friends of mine live near Rochester, Minn., and […]
SAMUEL: One positive resulting from the pandemic
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL This stinking pandemic has caused numerous negatives for the world, the most obvious being 2.5 million deaths. We’ve lost 506,000 citizens in the United States […]
SAMUEL: Wolves are now killing mountain lions
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL If someone made a list of things that can happen in nature, I’d have rated this one dead last (no pun intended). I’d have never […]
SAMUEL: Why eat wild game?
West Virginia hunters have not had to worry about Covid while making extra trips to the store because many have deer meat in their freezer. Me too. I’ve been eating […]
SAMUEL: How winter impacts our wildlife
A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me he’d seen bluebirds by his bird feeder and wondered how unusual that was for this time of year. I told […]
SAMUEL: How New York City handles deer problems
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL In October 2019, I wrote about the deer problem on Staten Island. Actually, I wrote about the huge money that Mayor Bill de Blasio has […]
