COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Every summer thousands of Americans go to Canada to fish. From our region, family fishing vacations to Ontario are common. Take the kids for swimming, boating, and fishing: it’s relatively inexpensive and a great annual destination for ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL We hear all the time that hunter numbers are declining. And I think they are, but evaluating that isn’t as simple as it sounds. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service canvases the country every five years to get the number of hunters over 16 years of ...
Three friends and/or neighbors told me they’ve seen foxes in our area in the past month. Two were positive they were red foxes and their description convinced me they saw red foxes. The third thought that she saw a den of gray foxes, based on the color of the kits (young foxes are called ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Is there anything cuter than a newborn fawn? Seems sad that roughly half of all fawns die before they are 6 months old. No question that during those first six months there is a lot going on in a fawns life. The latest issue of Quality Whitetails ...
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was first found in West Virginia in 2005. For those hunters who thought that it would be possible to isolate the problem and things would go back to normal, you were mistaken. CWD is not going away, and slowly but surely it is spreading ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we hear about viruses all the time. We wash our hands more, we clean things more, and we’ve learned that viruses are deadly and present everywhere. The same is true for birds. The pandemic has kept us in our ...