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    Morel Mushroom

    If you got rain and your temps haven’t been too high you can find morels. Depends on those two things and where you are located.
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    The one thing I missed in Yoby’s post is where he said his dog was the one doing the above ground damage. Yoby, are sure of that? if that is the case and all of the “tunneling” etc. was underground then it wouldn’t be a coon or skunk. Their damage looks like what you have in your picture, with...
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    Who's afraid of Alzheimer's?

    According to Wikipedia, the actual phenomenon wasn’t given a name until 2009 but has been recognized for ages. It can even happen in conditions where it is thought that the brain has sustained permanent damage and destruction. It doesn’t happen all the time but isn’t a rare occurrence by any...
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    Who's afraid of Alzheimer's?

    My grandma went through this. It was a slow decline for about ten years. The last few she was mostly bed-ridden, couldn’t communicate at all much less remember anyone or anything. The laundry list of issues and struggles is too long to list. A crazy thing then happened. One day, she “snapped...
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    Morel Mushroom

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    Morel Mushroom

    I can tell you that In my neck of the woods, if we don’t get some rain soon, the morel season will be over. Normally, with these soil and air temps, this would be prime time. What few morels popped up did so a week ago. I found about 15 on the year so far. Last year was closer to 1500 but we had...
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    69,937 deer tags in 2020

    Many state agencies and Indian reservations do it successfully. Not sure why ours doesn’t or can’t, but the reason definitely isn’t because it just can’t be done, or that it is too complicated, or that it costs too much money. We already have to apply online so the system is set up. I know you...
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    69,937 deer tags in 2020

    I am a bowhunter almost exclusively and I own enough land for a gratis tag AND I actually don’t disagree with you Davey. I’m not going to advocate for the one license system but I’m not against it and I believe it is a good system...one license...good for whatever weapon is legal at the time and...
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    69,937 deer tags in 2020

    The goal would be to get accurate data in time to make educated decisions on the following season only, not to trap people into getting in trouble. The places I’ve dealt with make the deadline for reporting about a month after the season is over but you can report it at any time up to that date...
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    69,937 deer tags in 2020

    A lot of states and reservations require mandatory reporting from everyone (rather than random sampling like ND) on your big game tag (and other tags...think HIP certification for migratory birds, turkey tags, etc. ) from last season by a certain deadline or you are ineligible to apply for or...
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    Jason Mitchell Outdoors

    Pretty damn cool. I’d rather have it on video than on the wall anyway...well maybe both but having it on video means you can look at that fish alive forever. I’d watch it every night before going to sleep and never go to bed angry again for the rest of my life!
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    holy white bass batman...

    I’d rather catch white bass, smallmouth, pike, crappie, carp, and the list goes on over walleye. I’d rather eat walleye hands down, but they are about the least fighting fish around unless they are about 7 or 8 pounds plus. Big White bass are an absolute blast!
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    Yup.
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    Junebug grubs live under the layer of grass for three years. Must be a lot of juicy ones there ready to emerge in a month or so, pulling in the critters that like to feast on them. Pretty sure that’s what you have goin on.
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    Raccoons also will do this, same as skunks. I agree that is what this looks like. If you have a lot of cutworms (Junebug larvae) it is like a buffet to coons and skunks. While they did you of the grubs they wreak havoc on your yard...as the grubs would have done. Have you in the past couple...
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    That's definitely an easy thing to do. Moles seem to be what comes to mind most of the time when a big pile of dirt without a hole shows up. They are definitely more "famous" than a pocket gopher for whatever reason. To be perfectly honest, the first time I actually trapped one of those little...
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    Tikka, you are correct about voles and striped gophers. Striped gophers (thirteen lined ground squirrels) and pocket gophers are two entirely different critters. My neighbor calls striped gophers by the name pocket gophers all the time. It may be a nick name for stripeys, but actual pocket...
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    What makes you say moles and not pocket gophers? I’ve trapped both, but only pocket gophers in ND. Mole hills are almost perfectly round. Pocket gophers have the asymmetrical, irregular shape of the mounds in his picture. Without seeing them In person I’d say pocket gopher...99% sure. Moles...
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    Do it like post #14. The only difference with how I do it is I have each Trap separately tied to about two feet of heavy string. I place each trap the opposite way from the other in the tunnel, laid nice and flat and almost ready to spring. I use a little spike or whatever to steak down each...
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    All in and around our food plots (they love weeds like clover) ...so yes, a fairly small area of a few acres. When some move in, I place the traps and in a matter of a day...maybe two, they are all dead. Mostly this is in the spring and the fall. Some years are worse than others but they are...

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