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Good to know, thanks jack

contact these people, they may know of someone http://www.badbeekeeping.com/beeclub.htm

Sally Hansens sells a nail polish thinner but I just use the Bitter Half's nail polish remover (acetone), go slow

I would think the people who are shocked at vegetable matter in the firepits carry their own turds out for disposal when they go trekking in the back country.

Yeah, the Alberta Way, run over the signs. Funny how over in Saskabush the trails stop @ the signs and here the excuse is "I never seen no effin' sign" Also damn funny is the assumption around here is that it's the local redneck hillbillies doin' the damage. Since I am or was a local redneck hillbilly long term random camper I have a news flash for y'all, the vast vast majority of us local rednecks quit our rippin and tearin' 5-10 yrs ago when the new crop of strangers showed up, the ones with absolutely no respect for campsites, signs, trails or waterways. I've often wondered how long term of residents some of these fuzzy balled idiots are.

Good read Rick Thanks

A chicken and an egg are layin' in bed. The chicken leans over, lights a cigarette and lays back blowin' smoke towards the ceilin'. The egg says "Well I guess that answers the age old question"

Piss poor PR for 2009, but relocation is not a very good option, I know what happens to ear tagged bears when they turn to camp raiding. Hundreds of habituated bears ended up shot when they started close or fence the dumps yrs ago but there's virtually no excuse nowadays. I hope someone's testicles or facsimile thereof are held extremely close to fire for lettin' it slide this long.

Na, better idear, build a fence 3 k on either side of # 3, across the valley @ Lundbreck and again across @ the summit. Keep all them born again Crowsnesters under control, oncet ya step inside the zone ya can't come out.

Thought I found a good down sleeping bag on a big flat rock in the middle of the Spray river one time but when I got closer I realized there was something stacked 2 deep in the bag and doin' an enthusiastic impersonation of an inch worm.... caught 3 nice brookies off the lee side of that rock

because I have zero imagination

Yeah I need a place to sleep once silly season over and I get to go fishin'

Oh like the last four posts were dead on topic. Shrunk it, it was rather overwhelming, didn't wanna piss off the bamboo guys too much

That's what I are, the old fart edition Mike Rowe of the rural Albertans undereducated set

not all line bred CSers just moved out from Ontario

nah we save that for friday nights down to the local 'tonk

I suppose for retaliation for all the alberta redneck cracks around this place but then again my Raph Kleinish attitude may have something to do with the fact I had 4 Calgary Housing Authority administered subsidized housing units across the street from me, partying, workin the system, dealin a little wacky and all the vehicles have or had Ontario plates

The stock for Ram fish came outta the Elk system I heard from a very reliable source, make you wonder how pure the Elk fish are. National Parks experimented quite a bit with Yellowstones @ one time. Yellowstone genetics in the Castle wouldn't surprise me but they have been testing pure higher up the system. I know of one little ck in the Porkies that look part Yellowstone to me because of spotting pattern. I directed a testing crew that way but haven't heard how they tested.

Why natives over introduced? Like Keith said, they evolved here under local conditions of sudden flood, extended drought and long brutal winters. They're tough bastards if they ain't being out competed. From rainbow competition it looks like the cutts can hide behind a temperature barrier, cutts typically like colder water than the rainbows but with brookies no such barrier exists and they aggressively breed with virtually no competition until the entire ecological niche is filled with stunted brook trout. Much the same as yellow perch when they have a decent feed source and no competition. You mentioned whitetailed deer, whitetails followed agriculture west and pretty much thrived but they still use eastern winter survival tactics. The winter of 2002-3 (I believe??) was a bad one in Southern Saskatchewan , long and cold. The area around Val Marie had a large population of deer, about 70/30% whitetail to mule deer. When it got bad the deer did what deer evolved to do to survive. The whitetails yarded up in sheltered area like they do in the east and the native muleys disappeared into the windswept areas. It was ugly, starving dying deer everywhere there was shelter, 3-400 hd dead right in the village of Val Marie itself. When it finally breaks in the spring SERM (Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management) does an assessment and they estimate that 96% of the whitetails and 60% of the mule deer died that brutal winter. Sorry guy but as much as I liked huntin' wiley whitey or fishin' for bows with their aerial displays I'll take native over introduced, they have evolved the tactics to survive out west

Spray it on with pump type spray bottle

I'll say this for them, they manned up.