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 travel six hours every fall to bowhunt big Saskatchewan bucks. Of course, they didn’t get to go this past fall because ...
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 and over 2,200 West Virginians. Add to that the loss of thousands of businesses (many gone ...
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 guessed that some research would show that wolves kill mountain lions. It turns out that they can. In February 1999, five ...
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 deer meat all of my life. My dad was a public school teacher and my mom a part-time secretary. Needless to say, with four ...
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 him that it was unusual, but bluebirds can be found in our area in the winter, as long as we don’t have deep snows and extended periods of really ...
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 been spending to solve their problem. And they do have a problem with deer with car-deer collisions, Lyme disease, shrub ...