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Honeymoon trip on the Allagash.

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New England Primitive Skills Gathering

Last weekend was the New England Primitive Skills Gathering in Woodbury CT.  Its nice and low key this year, the weather was cooler than previous years which was nice for all the people working on bows.  Met some great new people with a real passion for the woods and their craft. 
I didn’t take a single picture [...]

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Bobcat hunting lay and Coyote pack gathering.

 Bobcat trail up under the powerlines near my house.  If you look deep into the track you can see the asymmetry typical of the felines. 

 I followed him ( I think it was a hime because of the size of the tracks and stride of the trail), up the hillside and found this spot.  He entered from [...]

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Fox in Maine

Fox trail in Maine.  We saw many prints similar to this one as well as the scat below. 
 
Fox repeatedly marked small trees and things along the trails, you can just see his trail lead up to and away from the tree.  The scent marks smelled a little skunky which is consistant with a male fox [...]

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Hunting Hawk

Saw this in the field behind my house.  I think by the foot prints it is a redtail whom must have seen the little mouse or vole poking its head up and swooped down for it from the right, grabbed it, hoped to the left as it lost speed and stopped their,standing on its prey [...]

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Black Ash harvest.

My friend Ethan and I found some black ash the other day at an undisclosed location.  I have been learning ash splint basket making slowly but surely and was happy to find a local supply. 

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Lord of the Forest.

Found this in the woods yesterday with some of the other large bones.

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Tracking a bear.

While out tracking I heard a snowmobile drive up and down the park road. A short time later I came across some very fresh black bear tracks. The machine had apparently frightened the animals and got them moving even though it was midday.
Above and below are rear tracks of the bear. [...]

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Tracking at Beaver Brook Swamp.

Out on Sunday in People’s State Forest.
Some Otter slides out on the swamp. You can see his tail swish to the side as he traveled toward the background.

A bobcat hunting.
Here he stopped to sit for a while.
A coyote in a happy, dancing, sideways lope on the way [...]

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Tracking.

I have done a lot of tracking since we finally got snow here. I took so many pictures that I will put up a couple different post about it.

Here are tracks from a fisher. This top one in a 3 by 4 pattern on the frozen brook.

He [...]

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