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Yeah, and the ink doesn't flow as well as it used to either.

A good dog, a wood lot and a lateral ditch, a good SxS and dinner is delivered.

Hi all, here's some recent pics from this past week. We got a new computer so I had to figure out how to work the damn thing.

Myself and Will, I was using my 16ga Uggie 1030 and Will his Sauer 16ga Royal:



Wade, Will, Lakota and Duchess:



Wade and me:



Been cold here, but only a couple weeks left!!

Best!

Greg

Nicely done, Greg. I couldn't help but chuckle though looking at you and the boys and your bag of birds.

Once again, this time down at the coffee shop yesterday, I heard how late season birds flush so far out and so wild that you better be able to shoot fifty yard birds or you go birdless.

All of us know the crier and I dang near peed my pants when one of the old farmers told him that with the mutt he hunts, he never sees a pheasant any closer than the far end of the field.

RCC,

What on earth kinda trees can stay green in that kind of cold? They don't look like conifers.

SRH

Stan, those trees are probably Russian Olive. The ones in my yard take forever to drop their leaves.

They are Russian Olives. For more than a century they have held back the wind and provide winter shelter for all kinds of prairie game, everything from cottontails to deer, including pheasants, sharpies and on occasion Huns.

Now because some grant subsidised college kid with the State Conservation Dept thinks they are toxic, the G&F is bulldozing miles upon miles of them down.

Sadder still is the know-it-alls are not replacing that habitat with something else.

I don't think our soil conservation program even sells Russian Olive anymore. I bought mine years ago from their surplus stock every spring. I do see new seedlings popping up once in a while though. Toxic? What's next? Do they actually think some kid is going to chew up a Russian Olive tree and croak? Sad because they make a fine wind break, natural snow fence, and good cover. Bulldoze mine? Not on your life.

JRB,

I misstated. They claim Noxious, not toxic. Regardless, this ripping them out of the flats and plateaus because some moron in Helena thinks that they are destroying the river bottom cottonwoods is just plain stupid and another example of the blinders our government agencies wear when pushing their agendas.

I offered to take as many of their numbers who cared to see, out in the river boat at June Rise so they could see how many of their precious cottonwoods were being torn out by the roots, as the river continually changes it's course.

Does it surprise you that there were no takers?

Hi all,sad thing is they do provide some nice cover. Very hardy tree, we have quite a few here used for windbreaks also.

So what Bob says is the dying truth. Over here no one seems to care if they are around or not. The folks who didn't like them took them out, but the state as far as I know, could give a hoot less.

BTW, nice pics Bob, you do post some great ones!

Best!

Greg