I’m off gathering for a spell. While I’m gone, here’s an image from the McNary National Wildlife Preserve (in the U.S. land claim), taken at a distance so the shotgun shell casings […]
The Crooked Path to the Water
What Deer Think of Fences
Not much. However, it’s a handy way to make a trail that a coyote doesn’t follow. They follow all the rest. We could really play chess with coyotes by putting up random […]
Quail with Snow Shoes
The little stick feet might sink into the snow, but that’s not the end of the story. You use the wings. It does the trick. Basically, the way to pull it off […]
Gravity and Water and Deer Make Trails Together
I asked the question months back, what will the deer do to even out this hump in their trail, seeing as the lower part slumped on them. We have our answer! They’re […]
Deer Trail Engineering Question
So here’s a trail the mule deer have cut up a slope above a pumping station in Vernon. They chose an angle of around 20 degrees, except for that steeper bit in […]
Big Game Tracking in the Intermontane Grasslands
Suppose you’re hunting voles. I know, it’s not on any list of grocery items, but just suppose. It’s winter. It’s 20 Below. And you’re hungry. There are a lot of holes. Which […]
Bobcat Breaks Trail
Went up to the snowshoe trail up Aberdeen Lake way on Friday. Lots of snowshoe hare tracks this year. It’s good to see, too, that Bobcat is around, breaking trail. Thanks, Bud.
Coyote All Made Up for a Night on the Town
I guess good looks are important whatever the fashion. I was following the coyote trail yesterday… … and what did I see? I guess they thought it said Kitty Kat Matte. I […]
Mule Deer Landscape Architecture and the Architecture of the Human Eye
Note the mule deer trail in the left of this image, at an angle up this gravel pit. That’s a pretty normal angle for a mule deer to go up a slope. […]
The Dance of the Deer and the Pines
Oyama Not only is every ponderosa pine here a vertical column, rather than a star of branches as it appears to human eyes, and not only does it create a zone under […]
Okanagan Okanogan 