Dr Hypercube has three great links from English Russia which you should also visit, on reindeer races, Ukrainian Amazons, and wildly implausible airplanes, some of which actually existed (see here.) The charm of the first is partially linguistic: “People bring their best deers and race, race, race. The looser deers are being eaten then, like, …
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Serious Links
Frequent commentor Matt Miller is blogging for The Nature Conservancy. Here he is on falconry. And here are his other posts to date. Holly at NorCal Cazadora has the first original essay on why we love to hunt that I have seen in a long time. A hint, from a quote from Temple Grandin: “Wild …
New Pups!
I have hinted here and there but today our new pups arrived and are looking good.(At about 4 AM– we had to carry the doghouse inside and move the first pup to the whelping box, with all the other dogs leaping up to get a look and Lashyn growling through the door, because she wanted …
What the definition of “Species” is…
Therese, who knows about and studies such things, left a long comment on the last post that I think deserves to be up front. “I’ve got some insight into these questions. I apologize in advance for both these long rants, I’m currently working on some species redescriptions and its not progressing as fast as it …
Help for Dutch Salmon
Many readers of this blog know Dutch Salmon– longdog man, writer, publisher, and a needed voice on the New Mexico Game commission. He was the man we came to New Mexico to visit thirty years ago, and the man who gave us our first saluki. I owe him more than I can ever repay. Last …
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In the seventies a wild bunch of young writers and other artists went to Key West in search of bonefish, permit, and above all tarpon. Word was that a film was made of their quest but it never surfaced. Now it has. I can’t wait to see it. Not only for the leaping tarpon (I …
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A few “serious” ones first, and then some funny and/or insane… I really like this recycled column from Terrierman Patrick Burns, which I missed the first time around. It is called “Hunting and Fishing Like Adults” and was prompted by a note from regular reader Matt Miller about “canned hunts”. It is a long and …
Be Very Afraid
Obama’s new “regulatory czar”, Harvard law prof Cass Sunstein, is getting praise from both liberals and conservatives. Maybe he shouldn’t. “In a 2007 speech at Harvard University, Sunstein argued in favor of entirely “eliminating current practices such as … meat eating.” He also proposed: “We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn’t a …
Local Meet
We went out Saturday to a local falconers’ meet. Early morning was devoted to falcons over ducks in the valley, and late afternoon to Harris hawks and rabbits. But in the late morning it was time for the real fanatics– we who run longdogs with falcons on hares. The coursing ground was a huge block …
Survival of the Scrawny?
Annie H sent this Newsweek item about how hunters are trashing the evolution of prey species. I call agenda- driven cherry- picking bullshit. The thesis seems to be that trophy hunting removes all good males and big individuals from the gene pool. This might well be possible in some individual populations especially if it were …