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Montana mountain lion caught trout fishing

By Jo Schaper
It’s a different sort of cat video.

You gotta love infrared and low light game cameras with attached motion detectors. They show outdoors people what happens out there while most of us are snoring.
Two short videos taken by private landowners and distributed by the Montana Wildlife and Parks agency, show a mountain [...]

Unicycle caving –coming to the underground near you?

I though I’d seen it all, but no…
1) How do you even think to do this?
2) How do you get someone to film this?
3) Why do you think you have to watch this, even though it’s something you very very likely will never do?
I’ve seen people [...]

A handful of yummy morel recipes

Someone is going to have to take pity on the Traveler staff.
by Jo Schaper
It’s a horrible admission to make, but I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a morel mushroom.
Anybody want to share one or two? I’ll volunteer. I’ll even find something of value to exchange.
This just occurred as I am sitting here with [...]

John Holod’s Rt. 66 video kicks people off to a good start

Route 66: “Exploring the Mother Road”
John Holod Productions – 90 minutes
RV Adventures Videos $21.78 includes tax. Add $2.50 for shipping
By Jo Schaper
When you know a road, or a route, as the only way to grandma’s house, or a really nifty ice cream stand, or even now, [...]

Look out for white deer at Lake of the Ozarks

Posted by Bill Graham
Kansas City, Mo. – Seeing a white color phase of a white-tail deer is rare. But Michael Utt of Sugar Creek now has photographs of two different white deer. Utt is watching them along with other deer in a small herd on private land near Lake of the Ozarks.
“They’re neat. You can [...]

Urban Canadian raccoon masters the skywire

And I bet you thought *you* were clever. He didn’t even need a beer to say, “Watch this.”
Video from www.metro.ca/news Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Kayaking a live lava flow? Oh my!

By Jo Schaper
I saw this the other day on the net, via the St. Louis Canoe and Kayak listserv and I’ve been trying to forget about it ever since.
When people in the U.S. think of whitewater kayaking, it’s usually cold water. Very cold.
Not in this case. Daredevil kayakers just off the coast of [...]

Deer hunting is his passion

And, this just in, a followup from a friend of mine in Pennsylvania:
“An Indiana County man is facing several charges, after wildlife officials say he went deer hunting in a Walmart parking lo
The Pennsylvania Game Commission says 40-year-old Arcangelo Bianco, Jr., fired several rounds from a handgun at a 10-point white-tailed deer from within [...]

Asian carp dying on Osage River

According to a January report from Patricia Herman, in the January 24 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Field notes, several species of Asian, silver and bighead carp are dying on the Osage River. Fish and Wildlife officials are not sure why:
The report is filed at http://www.fws.gov/fieldnotes/regmap.cfm?arskey=33499. The text follows:
Missouri residents utilize their water [...]

One of the tallest horses in America…

It’s a big horse. Big Ben is a black Percheron, 19.2 hands high at the shoulder (78 inches or 6.5 feet). This photo was taken by Eugene, Jo’s husband, who climbed a fence to be able to see the horse eye to eye. The horse weights about 2500 pounds.(Percherons are generally smaller than other draft [...]