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Postcast 56 – January 29, 2021

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SAMUEL: How do black bears survive in winter?

COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL You often hear that black bears are hibernators, and although they sleep in winter, they aren’t true hibernators. Hibernators survive the winter by crawling in a hole, lowering body temperatures, not eating, and not moving until warm spring temperatures ...

SAMUEL: Did you know that?

Did you know that domestic mink farms are being hit by COVID-19? Last April, mink farms in the Netherlands were hit by COVID, shortly followed by farms in Denmark. In October two farms in Utah got the disease. Once in the mink, it apparently can spread to humans and today farms in nine ...

COLUMN: A New Year resolution

About this time last year, I wrote a column titled, “Need a resolution? Introduce someone to the outdoors” about hunter recruitment. While I still stand by making that a resolution every year – you can never recruit too many hunters – I’d like to take a look back at 2020 and think ...

OUTDOORS NOTEBOOK: Ending my first bowseason chasing sika deer

For the last two years, I’ve been hunting frequently in Maryland. A product of my situation – my girlfriend is from there and we visit often – I was shocked at how liberal the state’s deer regulations are.  They’re stricter than West Virginia with buck limits, which was ...