Wild boar hunt funds Outback road crew in Winton
Five road workers in orange shirts near Winton Queensland chase and butcher wild boars after shifts. They export meat mainly to Germany France and Italy. Each week they typically net about 400 dollars from the hunts, pooling proceeds to cover camp food and family needs.
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Winton
Australia
Ernie Ellis
Frank Mutton
Darkie” Parlett
Tucker” Laffin
Germany
France
Italy
Ernie
Cliff Dee
Wild Game Resources
Brisbane
Michael Mulligan
Australian Game Meat Producers Association
Chick
Rnie
Walk to Yellowstone Environmental Education Project
A South Carolina school program begins a 2500 mile walking journey with 650 students and teachers. The aim is cross curricular learning across science math art and history while adopting wolves in Yellowstone. The map based weekly route links walking progress to regional environments.
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South Carolina
Yellowstone National Ark
Veryone
Kathy Linton
East Aiken
Blue Ridge Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
Yellowstone
Winter visitor sapsucker builds sap drink economy on elm
A vivid portrait of the yellow-bellied sapsucker visiting a neighbor's elm this winter. It sets up sap cups on trees, drilling holes and daily tending its liquid stock, then migrates south as winter tightens. The bird, a vegetarian of the woodpecker family, also eats fruits and seeds including magnolia seeds.
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Coastal Plain
Birds Things By Lee Gibbs Across the North and Canada
Lee Gibbs describes the northern woodpeckers migrating into Canada with wintering in the southern states. The sapsucker nests in northern forests, holes a foot deep in dead trees, lays five to seven white eggs, and hatches in about two weeks. The sapsucker’s nectar cups draw many birds and insects, whom he occasionally preys upon.
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Canada
West Indies
Panama
Husband not villain in Abby column about stepkids visit
A furious wife asks how to handle her husband siding with his four visiting children who trashed the home after a vacation she planned and paid for. Abby urges forgiveness, noting the kids lied to protect their mother and that the husband is not the villain. In a second letter a widow seeks advice on pursuing a man in town who has not contacted her. Abby advises waiting for him to call and keep looking if he does not respond.
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Abby
Nusband
Tom
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Irkers
Outback
By Hobyn Holland
Mestvnates Press
Ellis
Ecoview
By Whit Gibbons
Birds Things
Lee Gibbs
Dear Abby
Abigail van Bure
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