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Clear skies and warmer weather mean stargazing season! Check out our roundup of telescopes and apps!

also... the hottest spot in Lake Champlain for panfishing CLEAR, GRADE, SEED: MANAGING YOUR LAND FOR BIODIVERSITY & SUSTAINABILITY The Mitten Crab Makes Landfall

The Man Behind the Masters North

This newly discovered invasive species threatens New York’s iconic Blue Crab See page 5.

The region’s biggest amatuer golf tournament enters its 34th year. See page 9.

A publication of the PRESS-REPUBLICAN • Saturday, May 6, 2017

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Special Publications Editor Michael Gallagher Contributing Writers Michael Gallagher Dan Ladd Todd Mead Ed Noonan Marc Peterson Rich Redman Toni Smith Shannon Surdyk

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On the cover

In our first-ever digitally composed cover, the telescopes featured in our stargazing roundup (ranging in cost from $49-$1,899) point to the starry skies above.

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TURKEY HUNTING’S SEASON WITHIN A SEASON

May is sononymous with spring turkey season. Dann Ladd talks about the many considerations that go into bagging a prize Tom. He talks everything from calls to foliation and decoy placement in this issue’s column.

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SHED HUNTING, SCOUTING & FISHING

Todd Mead looks back at a hunting season that spans thousands of miles, as well as a lifetime.

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GEARBOX

In a double-whammy avalanche of gear reviewing, Ed’s regular column covers the most high-tech version offering from Aqua-Vu, Henry’s beautiful new single-shots, BPS’s new Hat Trick Jig, Eskimo’s Quick Fish 3I Ice Shelter and Johnny Stewart’s ominously named Grim Speaker attractor.

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EYES TO THE SKIES

With the weather warming and the night sky getting clearer, it’s the perfect time to get into stargazing season! Contributing writer Toni Smith offers a guide to various telescopes ranging from the basic to the extravagant, for novice and pro alike

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PAN HANDLING

Some of the best fishing in the spring is sure to come out of the South Bay area of Lake Champlain near Whitehall.

Ed Noonan tells where to find and how to snag the delicious bluegill and crappie in its waters.

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WHERE THE MASTERS PLAY

We caught up with Willie King to talk about the upcoming Masters North torunament at Malone Golf Club, an event that’s raised more than $50,000 for M.S. research since its inception in 1984.

COLUMNS TRIBUTE TO A TRAILBLAZER

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TREASURE HUNT GIVES PRICELESS REWARDS

We reprint a past column by Dennis Aprill in honor of the longtime Press-Republican outdoors writer. This issue, his May 2007 column profiles the then-growing pastime of geocaching.

THE CONSERVATIONIST

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FOREST ROADS & FOOD PLOTS

Being a landowner comes with a lot of responsibilty, as well as opportunity to give something back to nature. Ric Redman offers advice on how to manage your plot in a way that benefits your and nature.

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WILD EDIBLES & ADIRONDACK ANIMALS

As Marc Peterson takes an issue off, Shannon Surdyk drops some knowledge on the Mudpuppy, a fascinating but rarely seen aquatic salamander.

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Turkey Hunting’s Season Within a Season For many hunters, turkey season is what they plan their entire year around.

Dan Ladd weighs in on the meticulous details of time, place and method.

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North Country Nets $219,950 in Grants The DEC awarded Conservation Partnership Program grants totaling $1.8 million to 58 nonprofit land trusts across the state, including 12 for the North Country region.

Here’s where the funding’s going: Adirondack Land Trust Capacity Grant: $30,000 Transaction Grant: $10,000 (518) 837-7569 • mike.carr@adirondacklandtrust.org Champlain Area Trails Capacity Grant: $15,000 Transaction Grant: $9,950 (518) 962-2287 • champlaintrails@gmail.com Indian River Lakes Conservancy Capacity Grant: $18,000 (617) 230-1222 • IndianRiverLakes@gmail.com Lake Placid Land Conservancy Capacity Grant: $20,000 (518) 837-5177 • jeff@lakeplacidlandconservancy.org

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ne of the things I always say about deer season is that there are seasons within the season. The same can be said for the spring turkey hunting season, although that’s about as far as the comparisons go between North America’s two most-sought after game species.

Wild turkeys are unpredictable critters. If you’ve hunted them long enough you know that sometimes they do just the opposite of what you think they are going to do; regardless of how much time you’ve put in to get yourself set up on them as perfectly as possible.

You’ve also likely found some trends that seem to work during certain parts of the season or some strategies that might be more favorable at one time rather than the other.

In New York, as well as Vermont for that matter, the month of May represents the turkey hunting season.

With the exclusion of the youth hunting weekend, of course. May is a very progressive month meaning like October it is a one of change particularly in weather and foliation. Increasing daylight not only affects the breeding activity of wild turkeys, it obviously leads to warmer temperatures and increasing foliation.

Although, there are exceptions. So lets take a look at these seasons within the season.

THE ADVANTAGES OF EARLY MORNING Starting with the early days of May and thus the first part of the season, this to me is the most magical time to be in the turkey woods. Usually in my area the first hints of daylight are right before 5 am. Temperatures

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tend to be cooler and insect activity is minimal. The woods are more open, meaning free of vegetation and this is both a good and bad thing.

It’s good in that you can hear turkeys a lot farther off and therefore be able to move in that gobbler you hear on the next ridge over, a big advantage for those of us who hunt woodlots rather than the farm country.

The turkeys can hear your calling too and sometimes you can bring them in from great distances. I once called a tom in on the second day of the season from over a half-mile away and I have other hunters tell me they done so at further distances.

Visibility is obviously better too but in some cases the turkeys have the advantage. Remaining stone still is paramount and early season is a good time to consider a blind, including a pop-up tent blind.

Consider camouflage that has more brown in it mixed in with green. And be very careful when on the move.

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Left: Scouting and shed hunting before the leaves come on is essential.

Right: The author shows off a few shed antlers.

world around the turkey hunter is one of beautiful transition in the middle part of May. Sometimes it is just as pretty as the fall foliage. Either way, you can’t see or hear as far and need to consider that in your setups, again, especially in wooded areas. Perhaps it’s my location in the southern Adirondacks but is during this time period when I’ve had more toms get henned-up than at any other part of the season. As much as I love fly-down time I can’t tell you how many times the gobbler I’m working early on goes off with the ladies. I’ve also noticed this tends to be a time when some toms come in silent.

One thing I like to do as foliation progresses is get close to roosted birds. This comes with the risk of being busted by other birds but if they’re gobbling, I’m moving. My camo patterns change to mostly green and I sometimes change my decoy setup in open areas using a bedded hen. But I’ll be totally honest with you: decoying is something I still can’t figure out completely.

FINAL SUBHEAD Finally there is late part of the season when conditions are potentially more summer-like.

Daylight comes earlier, it’s warmer, the bugs are out and trees are often completely foliated. Still, late season turkey hunting can be extremely rewarding but it can work both ways. For sure, hens typically pay less attention to the toms so they can be easier to lure in, especially in areas that don’t have a lot of hunting pressure. If you know a tom is hanging around somewhere during the late season and he’s not heavily hunted, your odds of success are much better than in a field full of birds that have been called to, chased and even shot at. I’ve killed birds in the late season but I been frustrated my uncooperative birds just as much.

In-season scouting in the last days of May is more important to me than at any other time of the season.

There are obviously fewer birds around they can be weary from hunting pressure. I do a lot of run-andgun hunting late in the season but I will set up on birds if I can pinpoint them. As for decoys, I usually carry a single hen.

Up to this point I haven’t addressed calling. Like decoying, I don’t consider myself an expert caller.

I’m very conservative but I do have a few rules I’ve adopted mainly that I’ve learned from fellow hunters.

Early in the morning, no matter the time of the season, I want to be the first hen a tom hears. I’ll call softly (tree call) when the songbirds start chirping and may do so every so often until I get a response. I do not call loud in these early moments of daylight.

If a tom answers I’ll answer him back, but softly and then I usually clam up until I think he’s flown down.

If a hen starts to call I will try to match her note for note just to let the old boy know that the first hen he heard is still over there, waiting. At that point I just hope he flies down before the hen does. When that happens, I like my chances.

I don’t use a mouth call, just box calls and slates.

I keep my yelps simple, usually no more than threeto-five in a cadence, unless I’m battling a hen, or it’s very windy, I do not get overly aggressive. To me, the best teacher for calling is to listen to other turkeys.

When you’re around hens take notes on how they communicate and do the same with your calling. I’ll never win a turkey calling contest but I’ve punched some tags over the years just by keeping things simple.

Turkey hunting is a fun game with multiple rewards. Be safe and keep at it as long as you have a tag to fill. And when you’ve filled your tags, go help another hunter fill theirs. Good luck!

Shed Hunting, Scouting and Fishing in the Spring Take advantage of this special window of time while the kids are in school and the summer tourists haven’t arrived. By Todd Mead

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lthough there’s still some snow hanging on in the higher peaks of the Adirondacks, it’s quickly dissipating with the warmer temperatures and rain that the region has been experiencing over the last few weeks.

This means it’s time to clean out the sheds for springtime and get active in the outdoors if the winter kept you from doing so. It’s just a matter of whether you want to clean out your shed or go find a few antler sheds to decorate your walls.

That’s right, it’s shed hunting season in the Adirondacks. Unlike most parts of the Midwest where serious shed hunters gather throughout the month of March, the weather and snow keep people across the Northeast from finding many of the hidden gems until this time of year. It becomes easier to navigate when the mountainous regions lose the snow on the southern slopes, which makes these places a top destination for the serious shed hunter.

Since most of the deer in the Adirondacks face grueling winters that require them to use every last bit of strength to survive, many of them will gather on south facing slopes for a variety of reasons. The snow is not as deep in these areas, making it easier for them to find any extra food, whether it’s browse or mast crops that are hidden under the white stuff in other places. The deer will expend less energy on these slopes, too, because the sun keeps them warm throughout the day. This allows them to stay in a confined area to eat and sleep.

If you’re looking for something to do in the coming weeks, it’s a prime time to search potential areas to hunt in the future. When the snow is gone, the appearance of the woods will be almost identical to the look it had in the late fall. Rubs and scrapes will be easy to find, and it becomes a lot easier to focus on finding sign when you’re not actually concentrating on hunting. You can cover more ground and not worry about being quiet and cautious when you’re walking through the woods.

If you get lucky, you might just find some new hunting ground as well as one of those coveted shed antlers that

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supposedly brings luck with it the season after you find it.

The secret to searching for sheds and new hunting places in the springtime is to use your time wisely.

The warmer days will allow the trees to sprout buds, which quickly turn into leaves. The window to navigate through the woods effortlessly becomes shorter with every passing day. When the leaves appear, the woods take on an entirely different look, a look that doesn’t remotely resemble what you will see in the fall.

When the ice begins going out of the ponds across the Adirondacks, trout fishermen from far and wide come to the region to wet their lines. Although pond fishing is popular, there are many other accessible areas to fish, including lakes, creeks and rivers.

If trudging through the woods to a remote pond isn’t your thing, you can filter through the list of stocked ponds, lakes, rivers and streams that can be found online.

Many of these places are located near roads and offer great opportunities for catching the daily limit. Taking kids to freshly stocked waterways can create memories that will last a lifetime for parents and kids alike.

Springtime has always been a time for regrowth. It’s a time for a new beginning. Whether you’re shed hunting, shed shopping or just cleaning out your shed, enjoyment can be found in the outdoors across the region. The summertime vacationers haven’t arrived yet, the casual campers aren’t ready to brave the chilly nights and kids are still in school, allowing you to enjoy the serenity of the Adirondack Park. So go search for a few antlers, cast a few lines, hike a few mountains, and enjoy everything nature has to offer during this incredibly short season that transforms the woods from brown to green in the blink of an eye.

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Going South: A view of “The Notch” from Lake Champlain’s South Bay, where there is an abundance of panfish like bluegill and crappie— if you know where to look.

Binary Name: Eriocheir sinensis Nicknames: Shanghai Hairy Crab.

Conservation Status: Invasive species Average Size: The crab’s body is the size of a human palm. The carapace is 3–10 centimetres (1.2–3.9 in) wide, and the legs are about twice as long as the carapace is wide.

If you’re looking to get the most out of fishing America’s Sixth Great Lake, a spring fishing trip in the Lake Champlain’s South Bay in Whitehall is a must for great panfishing. By Ed Noonan

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Bio: Originating in Hong Kong, migrating rapidly to Europe and North America, with the first sightings in England appearing in the United States in the San Francisco Bay. In 2007, the first Chinese Mitten Crab caught in New York State appeared in the Tappan Zee section of the Hudson River. These crabs are aggressive and may compete with the popular native blue crab in the Hudson River. Their burrowing habits may threaten stream bank and earthen dam stability and promote erosion and habitat loss.

ith the waters warming up more and more In fact, I recommend you follow all of that shore line Chinese Mitten Crabs are most easily identified each day, the fish will begin to move in around to Fort Ticonderoga. Stay in 5-6 feet of water. by the following details: towards the shallows in preparation of the Also do the same thing on the south side of the launch.

• Claws are equal size with white tips and hair spawn. Every year I spend some time in • Carapace (shell) up to 4 inches wide; light LOCATION, LOCATION, the North Country on Lake Champlain The Ticonderoga brown to olive color LOCATION that continues to produce good catches launch, especially • Eight sharp pointed walking legs; no Finding panfish during the spring every year which I am going to share around the shouth swimming legs in any lake or river is not necessarily with you, from my favorite pan fishing shoreline, is The DEC advises that if you happen to catch a difficult if you know the types of destination. These will include some of panfi sh country.

Chinese Mitten Crab, Do not release it back to structure that the fish will relate to. my “spots,” techniques, equipment and Crappie prefer slow moving water in the water: lures and tactics that result in some very Stay in 5-6 feet of rivers and therefore they will move tasty pan fish fillets.

• Keep it and freeze it (preserve in alcohol if water and follow to fi nd it.

Some of the best crappie you can’t freeze it) the shore line STARTING OUT AT SOUTH BAY fishing can be found in sunken trees, around to Fort Ti. around deep water boat docks and • Note date and location caught (GPS Let’s begin at the launch at South Bay coordinates preferred but pinpointed on a on Champlain. Launch your boat and bridge abutments. Last year I found map is acceptable) and how you caught it begin fishing under the Route 22 bridge a bonanza of big spring crappie in abutments and work your way around Lake Champlain and the Lake George • If possible, take a close-up photo. You may that back bay. Then work your way along Southern Basin bays around boat e-mail photo to SERCMittenCrab@si.edu the weed edges all south shore out to the docks and in front of creek mouths for identification. railroad bridge. Also, as the day warms and emptying into a lake. source: NYS DEC, wikipedia.com especially if it is sunny, fish the rocky shoreline on both Bluegills will congregate the north and south sides of the railroad bridge before in weed covered lake heading out into the channel. I have taken some very big bottoms usually in clear crappie under that bridge. It is not uncommon for me to water. Right now they are spend the entire day in South Bay. usually in no more than 6 On my next trip, which is usually the next day, I head feet of water and they, like TERRITORIAL BINGO to the Ticonderoga launch which is about 22 miles north the other panfish, are easily of South Bay on Route 22. Here around the launch, spooked; which is why boat especially around the south shoreline, is panfish country.

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Outdoors North rounds out our picks for skywatchers novice and experienced alike. Here are five great models for every experience level and price range .

Compiled and Written by Toni Smith

Best Introductory Telescope Celestron Power Seeker 50AZ Refractor A good introductory telescope is the Celestron Power Seeker 50AZ Refractor. It boasts an easy to use finder with excellent magnification. The 3x Barlow lens triples the magnifying power of each eyepiece. It is lightweight and portable, meaning it can be brought almost anywhere. The Power Seeker is perfect for beginner astronomers for a number of reasons. This unit has slow motion controls, which mean smooth tracking. Fully coated glass optical components allow for enhanced image clarity and brightness. This scope will offer good views of the moon and its geography and the planets. Bonus downloadable astronomy software provides printable sky maps and a 10,000 object database. With a $50 price, this scope provides great value. It can also be upgraded as the scope has many extra accessories that can be added on later, for an additional cost, for those looking to add a solid, portable piece to their collection. MSRP $49.95

Best Tabletop Telescope Meade Lightbridge Mini 130 The Meade Lightbridge Mini 130 has over 130mm of light gathering ability and will give you a picture of a good variety of deep-space objects, like star clusters, galaxies and nebulae as well as the range of visible planets and the Moon. The parabolic mirror creates bright and sharp images. Learning to use this telescope is a breeze, and set up is easy too. Point and look design with a 360 degree swivel mount makes navigating the skies easy for any level of stargazer. There are no motors or electronics, so the telescope operates quietly. The telescope is sleek and compact, and features a removable optical tube that maximizes portability. This “grab-and go” tool is perfect for the on the go astronomer, and can be used anywhere from camping in the woods to star gazing in your backyard. At just under $200, there is real value in this piece. MSRP $199.99

Best Reflector T Orion 09007 Spa 130ST

This Equatorial Reflector Telesc of the clear and precise guidance is known for. This particular sco with a wider field of view, due to The sky opens up with this foc locating celestial objects easy fo these features with a compact d a 24 inch optical tube, and you easy to transport and store, witho optics. There may not be a lot of this scope, but what does come the included accessories - is enou view of the planets, the moon and $300, it is on the higher end price good value for a more seasoned st MSRP $279.99

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A Telescope with a Good Cause Astrologers Without Borders 130 OneSky Astronomers Without Borders offers this fantastic tabletop telescope at a very accessible price. For Space.com’s 2017 list of Best Inexpensive Telescopes, it made Editor’s Choice and was called “Without a doubt the best telescope value we have seen at any price”, making this one of the best gifts for a budding young astronomer. As if that weren’t enough, more than half of the purchase price goes towards funding science programs in developing nations.

The telescope packs down incredibly small, making it easy to ‘grab and go’, at a relatively light 14lbs. It comes with two eyepieces. The widerfield 25mm piece gives you 26X magnification, while the higher-power 10mm eyepiece gives 66X magnification, enough to see the landscapes on the mood and the subtle coloring of the cloud bands of jupiter.

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There are tons of stargazing apps available in your virtual store; here are a few that rise to the top of a crowded field, fot both iPhone and Android.

Sky Safari Pro This app can display a map of the sky from any location and shows how positions of celestial bodies can change up to one million years into the past or future. It uses images collected from NASA spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope to show you the major planets and moons in the solar system. The app also gets you a subscription to SkyWeek magazine. $4.99 available for iPhone and Google Play

Pocket Universe Pocket Universe gives you observation tips and quizzes to test your knowledge about what you’ve seen, making it a great app for beginners and science-minded kids.

It also has a nifty feature that allows you to point your phone at the sky to read back what constellations, stars and planets near you.

Unfortunately, the app is only available for iPhone.

(For Android users, check out Sky Map for a good alternative). $2.99 available for iPhone and Google Play

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“The Cadillac” Celestron CPC 800 XLT GoTo

The deeper-pocketed stargazer should check out the Celestron CPC 800 XLT GoTo, what could be considered the “Cadillac” of the Celestron family. The heavy duty stainless steel tripod legs provide stability and rigidity for the scope, which means one less thing to worry about during set up. This type telescope, a Smith-Cassegrain, is well suited for astrophotography.

It also offers computerized pointing of over 40,000 astronomical objects using the NexStar. The satellite based GPS technology on this piece take the guesswork and effort out of aligning the scope for viewing.

Even if you have never used a telescope before, the computer will guide you. The price tag on this scope is a tad hefty, coming in at $1,999, but it also comes with some fancy bells and whistles. Some of those include, internal focusing, a 300x magnification, an f/10.0 focal ratio and a 2 year warranty, which is actually double the warranty of competitive scopes on the market today. It is not recommended for children younger than 12 years of age. MSRP $1,999.99

This app is a free alternative for the the excellent paid app Star Walk.

Definitely the bestlooking app on this list, It cleverly uses your phone’s compass app to guide you to the stars near you.

The Shift feature allows you to view what the sky will look like up to 10,000 years into the future.

FREE available for iPhone and Google Play

Star Chart maps the flow of the clouds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, approximately the same diameter as Earth.

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positioning and casting is very important. When fishing these shallow clear water fish do not row/motor in too close, and this goes for you shore anglers. Use the long cast technique with a small slip bobber and you will catch more fish.

And speaking of spooking fish those high overhand casts usually result in quite a disturbance when they hit the water surface. Practice pitching or underhand cast which will make a much quieter water entry. The best way to do this is to use a longer rod; the longer the better. My preference for this, and all types of pan fishing, is the Wally Marshall Signature Series combo.

It includes a two piece 8 foot IM-6 graphite light action rod with 12 guides, a closed Ripple Effect: face 4.1:1 underspin reel filled with 85 yards of 4 a high overhand pound test monofilament. case will usually The avid angler knows that result in quite the right rod and reel for a specific type of fish/fishing a disturbance one of the most important when they hit the isfactors in not only their water surface. fishing success, but also practice pitching their fishing enjoyment. you make your underhand, which castWhen let the lure/bait sit there will make a much for 10 to 15 seconds and if quieter entry. there is no action use your rod tip only and slowly pull the bobber towards you 6-12 inches and stop. Wait another 10 seconds with it sitting motionless and then if nothing happens reel it in. If you fish live minnows than the bait’s movement will provide its own action. And “yes” garden worms (I prefer pieces) will, and do work also.

WHAT WOULD WALLY DO? This is a very controversial subject among anglers no matter what the species. My thoughts on it are the best color at any given time and condition is the one that catches fish. Wally Marshall, a 45-year member of the Bass Pro Shops fishing staff and a highly successful professional crappie fisherman, believes that the crappie can detect shades of red, pink and orange. When fishing on cloudy overcast days or in heavily stained waters he will use darker colors like black, red, blue and all with a chartreuse tail. In muddy water the darker colors are more visible to the fish. These colors are also better at dusk and at dawn.

On bright sunny days or clear water blue and white or chartreuse are very good crappie colors; and Marshall also will try pearl white and even those with sparkles.

But his all-time favorite is a chartreuse head, blue body and pearl tail. These are the reaction bite which is what you are looking for in the spring time.

What about jig head colors? According to the pros brightly colored jig heads improve your chances for a bite; but what about the eyes? Both Marshall and Lonnie Stanley, founder of Stanley Jigs agree that they can and do make a difference; especially on the bigger (heavier) jig heads. And they definitely do increase color contrast which makes them more attractive.

Of course, don’t forget the most important thing I believe that you should take on a fishing trip – the kids!

THE CONSERVATIONIST

Forest Roads and Food Plots Being a landowner means a lot of responsibility, as well as an opportunity to give something back to nature. By Rich Redman

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rivate woodland ownership allows us to manage not only for timber and firewood, but also for wildlife. Cutting trees is good; very good, but we can do better. As small woodlot owners, we aren’t dictated by timber production and poor markets, like commercial loggers. We harvest what and when we want. Poor market species like hemlock, small pines and old aspens can be burned in our garage or outdoor wood stoves. We try to utilize as much as possible. Minimal waste!

This winter has been exceptional for working in the woods, and you took advantage of it. You’ve have been outside most of the winter. You’ve cut firewood, hauled out some logs to get milled into boards for your next building project. You burned a few brush/slash piles, but also left some for amphibians, reptiles and birds. Wildlife management is not just about whitetails.

Woodcock, grouse and many songbirds are losing critical habitat due to over mature woods and the lack of forest management. Harvesting trees diversifies habitat and species. You know that, so part of your forest work included cutting openings or mini clear cuts to allow sunlight to stimulate new growth and allow pioneer species to grow. A high stand density of aspens is prime grouse habitat.

With the up and down temps, the lack of snow and now spring coming, your wood roads got a little chewed up. Soft ground and machinery don’t mix at times. You have some muddy areas, maybe some ruts, and those burn areas have exposed bare ground. A conscientious woodsman doesn’t leave it that way. Sound forest management calls for fixing the problem.

Using small equipment like we do means we don’t have the deep ruts and erosion problems a skidder could cause. Small tractors and winches do little harm if the operator is using his head. But roads and headers can get minor ruts and muddy.

As Forest Gump stated, “IT HAPPENS”.

BENEFITING YOU AND WILDLIFE Erosion and sediment cause water quality problems.

So let’s fix the problem, or should I say let’s make things better. Grade out those disturbed areas and plant a species that will benefit you and wildlife. Planting species of grasses, forbs, shrubs or trees for wildlife along with forest management is a science and an art.

Using your tractor with a bucket and three point hitch style rake will smooth things out, or even just hand raking out small areas will provide a good seed bed and make things easier to maintain. Sloping roads may need some water bars to conduct runoff away from the road and off to the sides. Make sure you put them in areas where the water will run into the woods and not back into the road a ways down the slope. Do your water bars first and then seed down the roadways.

Roads, burned off areas, and landings can be seeded down to a variety of grasses, forbs and legumes. Clovers, chicory, brassicas, radishes and wildflowers, work great.

Get the seed from a company that specializes in wildlife mixes for food plot areas, not cow chow. A 10 foot x 1000 foot section of road is just under a quarter of an acre. That’s a lot of food.

GO FORTH AND PAINT! I occasionally drive on some of the roads, so the tractor tires flatten out the stand but it grows back. I use cow chow (red clovers, bluegrass and orchard grass) for primary roads that I will be driving on a lot. Secondary roads that won’t be driven on, such as logged off areas you don’t intend to go back into for a while can get the mix that is designed for wildlife; the less stemy good stuff. Small grains can also be planted separately, such as wheat, oats, and rye. They provide energy later in the summer for turkeys and other seed eating birds.

Those burn pile areas can be smoothed out and planted with radishes or brassicas, if they will receive enough sunlight. Along with plenty of sun, make sure you soil test first. Nutrients and lime are critical to getting a strong stand. Your clear cut areas will shoot up any number of pioneer species, but planting some wild apple and oak trees into the mix adds some future candy for

Before grading and seeding

After grading and seeding

critters. Harvesting some old trees along streams is good management in my opinion. Try to do this over a period of time so there is a mix of old and young vegetation along the stream. Black willows, red maple and alders provide energy to streams. They are GOOD for fish.

If you cut along wetland edges, plant red clovers and alders which supply nitrogen to the rich organic soil, encouraging earthworms, which in turn feed woodcock.

Just like grouse, woodcock like a thick stand of vegetation.

Wildflowers will provide pollinators addition plants for pollen and add some color to headers and landings.

Along the header edges, locust, basswood and cherry flowers make bees happy. Plant a few apple trees in with this mix to provide future energy to wildlife. Shrubs such as blueberries, blackberries and wild raisin provide additional grub to keep wildlife healthy. Having a 365 day food supply is critical to keeping wildlife around.

Maintenance is crucial to keeping what you want.

Mow your stand of grass and clovers a few times a year to control weeds and to keep the clovers growing, they don’t like shade. Fertility is important. My preference is good old barn manure with bedding. Lots of nutrients and organic matter for bugs! Cutting out competing trees is vital if you want an apple or oak to branch out and grow big. Long term vegetation management is the key.

As a woodsman or woman, you are the painter of your woodlot. You can be a one color barn painter or kick it up to a Rembrandt that mixes the paint and adds color and life to the forest with a few brush strokes. Go forth and paint!

About the author

Rich Redman is the present owner of Forest Field Stream Habitat Restoration and a columnist for Outdoors North.

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MASTERS: Willie King built the biggest amateur tournament in the region—and fought for a good cause along the way.

By Michael Gallagher

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illie King loves golf. And he wants others to love it, too. If the North Country has anything akin to an ambassador to the royal game of golf, he’s it. The professional golfer and owner of Plattsburgh Golf has been presented with the PGA’s President’s Council National Award on Growing the Game four times. His tenure as a professional and instructor has seen him serve not just in private golf courses but high schools and even a stint as the Athletic Director at Clinton Correctional Facility. He still plays, and coaches, and minds the shop on Smithfield boulevard in the Lake City, where he and his small staff of similarly encyclopedic golf nuts maintain a laidback atmosphere.

When I go to see him, he’s busy seeing to customers and the phone is ringing off the hook. It’s the tail end of the registration period for The Masters North, a tournament that has been King’s prized project for the past 34 years.

After a brief but jovial conversation with the person on the other end, he calls out to the other guys in the shop; “Devin’s in!” He’s referring to Devin Delisle, one of the best amatuer golfers in the northeast, who has just called to let Willie know that he’ll be competing this year. Delisle, a sophmore playing with the Iona College Gaels, is already getting stories attached to him that are the stuff of pro shop legend. “He has put numbers up at Malone that are unbelievable” he says.

“I heard last year he shot 65. The lowest anyone’s ever shot at the Masters North is 68.”

Players of Delisle’s caliber are a great example of how the event has grown in noteriety over the years, but he’ll have to outshoot another young phenom in Art Griffin of Southern Charleston University. He’s looking to win his third straight Masters North. The map of where players come from to play is expanding every year: three- On the heels of time tournament champion Bob Huhes is from recently raising Watertown, others hail from across the lake in over $18,000 Vermont and Royal Canadian Golf Association for the Folds of Hall of Famer and nine-time tournament Honor charity, the champion Graham Cooke hails from Montreal.

The tournament has come a long way since a field tournament passed of eleven threesomes first teed up in 1984 at the a major milestone last year, raising course at Saranac Inn. As the roster grew year by year, it eventually more than $50,000 moved and has called Malone Golf Club’s east to date for course home since 1990. The course was under the multiple sclerosis management of a young Derek Sprague before he research. went on to become President of the PGA in 2015, and he and King have remained fast friends.

The Masters North, as its name implies, is an homage to the PGA’s most prestigious event. King makes sure that his version is as authentic to its namesake as it can be. “I had a love affair with the Masters, I do everything they do, right down to the green jacket” he says, then adds jokingly— “We just don’t get CBS there, and we don’t have Jack or Arnie hit off the first tee.”

Since 2000, King implemented the Legends division, a compliment the PGA’s class of senior players, who play a shorter course.

Like the benefit tournament he hosts each year for Folds of Honor, a charity organization that provides scholarships to the children of fallen veterans, there’s a good cause behind The Masters North. Each year, it raises money for multiple sclerosis research.

“When I first started the tournament, my younger brother Steve had M.S., and it was really bad.” says King. “He died in 1996. I do it because I want to honor him.” Last year, the tournament passed a major milestone, raising $50,500 to date for multiple sclerosis research, on the heels of raising over $18,000 in his last tournament for Folds of Honor.

As for the field, King things Delisle will put in a strong showing, but it’s his son, Matt, who he’s most excited to see play. Matt King, who went on to play golf

at Boston College, been runner-up in the tournament four times. Every year, he never lets a little thing like a few hundred miles stand between seeing his family and getting a chance to play.

“When he got good enough to play in it, that was a really good feeling” King says. “Every year, he comes back to play. Whether he’s lived in Boston, Chicago, now he lives in Atlanta, he tries to make it back and see Dad and Mom.” If watching the action at Augusta this year didn’t scratch the itch, it would be well worth saving a couple of sick days for the 18th and19th of May. The Masters North is sure to provide a lot of entertaining action, and nothing beats being there.

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For more than 20 years, Dennis Aprill’s columns were a weekly staple in the Press-Republican. An avid hiker and writer, he delighted readers with his insights and musings on the beauty and wonders of the Adirondacks.

Outdoors North remembers Dennis Aprill each issue with a reprint of a past column.

Treasure Hunt Gives Priceless Reward

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e are at 44 degrees 19.863’ north, 073 degrees 53.857’ west — in other words, we are near the shore of Copperas Pond in Wilmington Notch, looking for an army ammo can filled with low-cost trinkets.

It’s called geocaching and we are in search of the Copperas Cache, an elusive conLife tainer I tried to find three years ago while I was on assignment for magazine. Exact coordinates are essential to geocaching, but they didn’t help me back then. This time there are nine of us, seven Plattsburgh State Expeditionary Studies students, me and Alex Jess from Plattsburgh, our leader.

Alex, a car salesman with Bill McBride Subaru, is into geocaching big-time. We fan out, guided by the clue on the Copperas website entry that we deciphered. It said the cache could be found 100 feet from where the trail met the pond and behind a big boulder covered with ferns. The problem is there are a lot of big boulders with ferns.

Alex checks his GPS, a Magellan Explorist 500, and, although the tree canopy is a bit thick and sometimes interrupts the signals, he thinks he has a fix on the cache. All of a sudden from 60 feet ahead of him, Seth, one of the students, yells, “I found it!” We all rush to the discovery.

There we find a typical cache, Alex tells us, a waterproof “I often stop at army ammo can with trinkets inside — a small stuffed rest areas near animal, other inexpensive paraphernalia shoved in, plus where there are a notepad for us to sign in to show we found the cache.

Like all geocachers, we use fake names to sign in; mine is caches. it breaks Orion. We discover the cache was created in 2002, and that up the long drive. time span is reflective of geocaching worldwide.

I found one for that Adirondack Life article near Middle Saranac Lake. All you need to do is go to the website www.geocaching.com, punch in the zip code of the area you want to search, and hit enter. “It makes for a nice diversion on a long car trip,” Alex says.

“When I drive from Washington, D.C. to Plattsburgh, I often stop at rest areas near where there are caches. It breaks up the long drive.”

Even with 10 satellites hovering over the Adirondacks, there is no guarantee of a clear signal due to tree cover or atmospheric conditions; most of the time there are enough satellites to get a read, but taking along a map and compass is a good idea just in case one of these battery-dependent GPS units goes dead.

Now that we’ve found the Copperas Cache, I ask Alex Jess the inevitable question: How many caches do we have to find to get a patch, medal, certificate or award, just like those people who go up the 46 highest peaks.

“Unfortunately, there are no trophies,” Alex says, “but there is one big reward.” “What’s that?” I ask. “I’ve lost Breakfast, EveryThursday 15 pounds since I started geocaching.”

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The Flip can withstand serious abuse in the field, even with everyday use. Its wide-mouth opening and tough HydroLok™ Zipper make for easy loading and access to your food and drinks without sacrificing on durability or Yeti’s legendary coldholding power. ColdCell™ Insulation 1” thick on the sides and 1.5” on the bottom brings incredible ice-preserving power and far outperforms ordinary soft coolers. It has a compact, cubed body which I prefer and it is complete with the punctureresistant DryHide™ Shell, that allows for ultimate portability. It will never slow you down—you can just throw this cooler over your shoulder and head out for the next outing. It’s the only personal cooler that’s game for full days in the tree stand, early mornings in the duck boat, or afternoons on the water.

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As a fisherman, I found Lehr’s outboard motor very interesting. It is the world’s first propane powered outboard engine. These outboards are easy starting with no choke and no priming, reliable with no carburetor gum-up or winterizing, economical because propane costs roughly half as much as gas.

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Mudpuppy Mix-Up Spring’s an active season for this rarely seen aquatic salamander.

By Shannon Surdyk Spring is a time when everything gills. They can be found in freshwater comes back to life. Frogs echo their streams, ponds, and lakes, but prefer chorus and salamanders migrate from clear water with high oxygen content. their cozy winter shelters to fresh Mudpuppies are mainly nocturnal, vernal pools. Not all salamanders are emerging from their hiding places, in visible in the springtime, crossing the vegetation and under rocks and logs, roads to lay their eggs. Some species at night to hunt. They are carnivorous of salamanders never step foot on and will feed on anything they catch, land. These aquatic salamanders spend including fish, amphibians, and aquatic their entire lives submerged in water. invertebrates like insects, worms, and The Mudpuppy, Necturus maculosus, snails. Mudpuppies are adapted to life in is one example. Necturus is the genus the water. Their vertically flattened tails of aquatic salamanders endemic to the help them swim and they have sensory US and Canada. Maculosus describes organs in their skin that can detect their physical appearance and can be water movement and pressure changes translated to mean blemished, speckled, to help avoid predation. Their color patterns also allow them to camouflage or mottled.

The mudpuppy, also known as the with the bottom of stream beds and waterdog, is a relatively large salamander lakes. Eggs and young mudpuppies are that can measure 8 to 13 inches in length. most commonly preyed upon. Predators They are one of the few salamanders that include fish, other salamanders, and can make a sound, a squeaking sound larger predators such as turtles and reminiscent of a dog’s bark. Mudpuppies snakes.

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