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Lyman County Farm • 314.42 +/- Deeded Acres of Presho, SD • A great farming and hunting property

Hughes County Irrigated Cropland

Haakon County Ranch • 1320 Acre, Council Bear Draw Ranch • West of Pierre- Ft. Pierre, SD

McPherson County Hayland • 68 Acres of Hayland , west of Long Lake

• 349.37 Acres South East of Pierre, SD on the Missouri River

Horse Country Estates • 10 Acres 11 miles South of Ft. Pierre • Prime Horse Property, Riding Area • Overlooking Lake Sharpe

Haakon County Cropland • 400 Acres North of Midland, SD • Includes 130 acres winter wheat

Todd Schuetzle

605-280-3115

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Jones County Cropland • 480 Acres Cropland & Grassland • South of Ft. Pierre, SD

Peoria Flats Outlook • 2.5 acre lot overlooking Lake Oahe north of Pierre

Spring Creek Recreational Lots • North of Pierre, SD

Graham Schuetzle

605-220-4014

dakotalandco@gmail.com

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Fresh Water Ranch

Aladdin, WY

Newcastle, WY

Wild and scenic Black Hills ranch. 3,669 acres with live water, highway access, excellent wildlife habitat, and incredible mountain scenery. New water projects, new fences, and new ranch roads. This is one of the top quality recreational holdings and one of the largest blocks of deeded land available in the Black Hills. An exceptional offering. $8,500,000.

Impressive 186 acres with a one of a kind home that combines maximum efficiency with detailed elegance. Many custom features including a deluxe kitchen, custom cabinetry, formal dining room, private den, spacious master suite, spa tub, gas fireplace, hard-wood floors, French doors. Guest house, barn & shop. A handsome country estate. $1,387,000.

Tower View Ranch

Eagle Ridge Ranch

Devils Tower, WY

Sundance, WY

Amazing Black Hills setting between Sundance and Beulah with 442 deeded acres and a 320 acre adjoining State lease. Scenic landscape with wooded canyons, hidden valleys, hay meadows, interesting rimrocks and panoramic views. Custom log home situated to capture the views. Also 2 hunting cabins, shop and barns. An extraordinary offering. $1,500,000.

Premier Black Hills setting with an unobstructed view of Devils Tower. This 1,008 acre ranch is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Remarkable scenery with wide plateaus, incredible vistas, rolling fields, rugged canyons, and wooded hills. Frontage on Hwy 24 for over two miles. One of the most unique land holdings available. $4,679,000.

Parcels offered.

ElBarBee Ranch

Bear Lodge Ranch

Newcastle, WY

Sundance, WY

An iconic Black Hills ranch with 880 acres in a scenic and remote setting on the west side of the Bear Lodge Mountains. A high country ranch with landowner elk tags and an incredible mountain landscape including excellent wildlife habitat and panoramic views. The ranch is a well-known landmark which has been in the same family for many years. $2,464,000.

Distinctive Wyoming ranch with 1,074 acres in a picturesque Black Hills setting with extensive improvements. The beautiful custom crafted log home has end of the road privacy. Well-kept set of support buildings including a guest apartment with horse barn, shop, equipment shed and machine shed.

An exceptional property on Stockade Beaver Creek. $3,800,000.

Reverse CX Ranch Newcastle, WY

Hard-grass ranch with live water. 15,226± acres, including 8,781± deeded acres, 5,325± acre Grasslands permit and 1,120± acre State Lease. The ranch has been managed to promote good grasses and has numerous water sources throughout the ranch. A low-overhead operation in productive cattle country with abundant water resources. $4,500,000.

Kara Creek Divide Ranch Sundance, WY

Picturesque Black Hills ranch along Inyan Kara Creek. 2,019 deeded acres and 80 acres BLM lease. The striking combination of topographical features provide spectacular scenery and an excellent environment for wildlife. Creek bottoms, hidden meadows, rugged wooded hills and high plateaus with wide ranging views. Premier setting with live water. $3,750,000

Lytle Creek Ranch Hulett, WY

Black Hills ranch with 1,160 acres in one of the most picturesque and private settings available in the Bear Lodge Mountains. It’s a hidden gem with nearly two miles of live water and adjacent to Nat’l Forest. A striking mixture of pine covered hills, steep canyons, aspen groves, high plateaus, creek bottoms and bur oak draws provide an exquisite landscape. $3,480,000.

Box 98, Newcastle, WY 82701 | Phone: 307-746-2083 Print brochures at www.eRanches.com | Licensed in WY, SD & MT

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Cover Artist Cheyenne Glade Wilson, an enrolled Oglala Sioux tribal member, is a cowgirl/rancher, wife, mom, writer/blogger, Thriver, and believer in all things positive. As a 5th generation rancher, Cheyenne was born and raised on her family’s ranch in southeastern Montana and spent much of her young life in the rodeo arena. School and other interests took her to various cities throughout the country where she furthered her knowledge of retail business and management.

After climbing the corporate ladder for several years, Cheyenne realized her heart remained rooted in her ranching background, and returned to carry on the family tradition. Cheyenne and her husband, Shane, run their cow/calf operation on the Pine Ridge Reservation near Oglala, SD. They are thrilled to be raising their son, Stone, in the same lifestyle that they were blessed to grow up in.

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TRAVIS RUNIA | SD Game Fish & Parks, senior upland game biologist

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n the rolling hills of the South Dakota prairie, adventure awaits. With a solid pointing dog and comfortable hunting boots, hunters can find a unique hunting experience. The targets? Sharp-tailed grouse and the greater prairie chicken.

While the state has become world-famous for its pheasant hunting, these native upland birds are scattered throughout the state’s prairie grasslands. The season runs mid-September until the first week in January, and South Dakota has one of the highest grouse and prairie chicken populations in the nation. The Fort Pierre area has the largest density of birds with hunters

flocking each year to central South Dakota to take advantage of a oneof-a-kind hunt.

“South Dakota is one of the few states for hunters to experience a mixed bag hunt where they can shoot grouse, prairie chickens and pheasants in one trip,” said Travis Runia, South Dakota Game Fish & Parks (GFP) senior upland game biologist. “The state offers a

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tremendous opportunity for folks to enjoy the natural landscape of these expansive grasslands while hunting a native bird that can sometimes be very difficult to track.”

Dale Gates, GFP regional conservation officer supervisor, grew up hunting grouse and prairie chickens and enjoys the challenge of finding the birds nestled within the slopes and hills of the wide-open prairie.

“I started hunting these birds when I was a kid. It became a family tradition over the years,” said Gates.

“We would travel to the Pierre area on the weekends, and I just got hooked. Now that I live here, I can hunt them on a daily basis. This is the only place in the nation that has the mixture of pheasant and

grouse for people to hunt. Hunters can expect to put in a lot of miles as they walk through large expanses of grasslands.”

According to a survey conducted by GFP, there were 89,361 resident and 82,992 nonresident licenses issued that allowed holders to hunt prairie grouse (which refers to both sharptail and prairie chickens). Approximately 10 percent of residents and nonresidents were surveyed for the upland bird seasons. Based on survey responses indicating at least one day of hunting grouse, there were a projected 6,503 resident and 4,254 nonresident grouse hunters. A projected total of 35,790 grouse were harvested (25,847 by residents, 9,943 by nonresidents) during the 2014 season.

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The greater prairie chicken can be differentiated from the sharp-tailed grouse by the barring on its breast and its square tail, as opposed to the pointed tailfeathers of the sharp-tailed grouse.

While not as popular as pheasant hunting — there were 1,199,803 pheasants harvested by 504,144 residents and 695,660 nonresidents in 2014 — grouse hunting is growing in popularity, and hunting grouse verses pheasants requires an entirely different strategy.

“With pheasant hunting, we hunt really thick cover,

cattails, trees and corn fields,” said Runia. “Whereas with grouse, hunters will be walking through grass that’s not even knee high. The birds aren’t as easy to predict about where they will be, so it requires putting in a lot of miles to find out where they are at.

Serious hunters rely on pointing dogs who can run 300500 yards ahead to find the birds, while pheasant hunters

typically use Labradors to flush the birds out of their hiding spaces.”

Runia said drought conditions throughout the state might have a negative impact on the grouse population, but he still expects plenty of hunters to travel to Fort Pierre to hunt these tricky birds.

“We had a pretty mild winter, which is great for

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The daily limit is three birds per person, in any combination of grouse and prairie chicken. Photo by Chad Tussing

what’s good for the herd is good for the bird.

Pasture conditions that are favorable for livestock are also good for native game birds, like sharp-tailed grouse.

pheasants, and as we got into the nesting and hatching season, weather was really favorable,” said Runia.

“We did see some dry conditions occurring throughout the grouse range, but we won’t know specific population numbers until we conduct our annual survey later this year.”

rangelands are healthy, the birds have a healthy landscape to thrive, and a higher population of birds is a symptom of productive grasslands.

With residual cover for nesting in the summertime, it allows these birds to nest throughout the expansive rangeland areas that the state has to offer.”

Pasture management is vital to providing the best habitat for greater prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse.

Gates says patience is the key to a successful grouse hunt.

“If it’s good for the herd, it’s good for the bird,” said Runia. “When

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“Some folks who come to hunt grouse are surprised by how much walking they end up having to do,” said Gates. “There really isn’t a lot

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The limit is three birds per day in any combination. Both males and females can be shot as it’s nearly impossible to tell them apart, says Gates.

South Dakota offers one of the highest populations of sharp-tailed grouse and prairie chickens in the nation.

“To distinguish between the two species of birds, hunters can look for the distinct barring on the breast of the prairie chicken verses the whitish pattern that the sharp-tail has,” explained Gates. “The sharp-tail also has pointed tail feathers while the grouse is squared

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heasant season brings family and friends together for exciting and fun memories, and the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Department offers some reminders to make sure all hunters have safe and legal outings.

1. The daily limit for pheasants is three, with a possession limit of 15; however a hunter cannot possess 15 pheasants until after the fifth day of the season.

2. It is illegal to allow a firearm to protrude from a motor vehicle or conveyance attached to it while on a public highway during the hunting season. This includes hunters riding to and from fields in the back of pickups.

3. It is illegal to shoot from a moving motor vehicle, including an ATV, while hunting pheasants. This also includes hunters riding in the back of pickups to and from fields.

4. When riding in an ATV, firearms must be completely enclosed in cases and unloaded. Landowners on their own land and those who have concealed pistol permits and are carrying pistols are exempt from this provision.

5. It is illegal to shoot pheasants and other small game from ATVs, except for properly permitted disabled hunters.

6. When small-game animals, such as pheasants, are lawfully shot from road rights-of-way and fall onto private land, those animals may be retrieved by unarmed hunters.

7. Don’t forget your license. While hunting, you must be in possession of your hunting license; those 16 and older must also have a valid form of identification for the purpose of verifying identity.

8. The use of nontoxic shot for small game is required on most public lands, but not all. Non-toxic is not required on U.S. Forest Service National Grasslands, state school lands or on most GFP-managed/leased properties designated as Walk-In Areas when hunting small game, such as pheasants or grouse.

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Road Hunting reminders South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) reminds hunters about several road-hunting laws:

1. No person may hunt a road right-of-way within 660 feet of schools, churches, occupied dwellings and livestock. Neither the person discharging the firearm nor the small-game animal being shot at may be within the 660-foot safety zone.

2. While hunting a highway or public right-of-way, hunters may shoot small game (except doves) and waterfowl that take flight or originate from a public right-of-way or highway. The hunter must be within the right-of-way and the game must have taken flight from within or be flying over the rightof-way. The public right-of-way along a section line or other highway is open for hunting if: the rightof-way has been commonly used by the public for vehicular travel, as demonstrated by the existence of a well-worn trail or an intentional alteration or adaptation has been made to the right-of-way to enhance the natural terrain’s utility for vehicular travel or to permit vehicular travel where it was not possible before. Remember that fences are not always on a right-of-way boundary or sometimes there is no fence. Most section line rights-of-way are 66 feet wide.

3. People must park or stop their vehicles as far to the right-hand side of the road as possible.

5. If the person who discharges the firearm is less than 50 yards from a vehicle, all of the doors of the vehicle must be closed and the engine must be turned off.

6. It is NOT legal to shoot small game and waterfowl that take flight from a public right-of-way over a Federal Refuge or Indian Tribal Trust Land.

If a state-licensed hunter shoots at a bird across the fence of either of those lands, the hunter may be subject to arrest by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer. You might want to drop this one?

There are complications here that will take too much space to explain. For example, in the hunter in your scenario here also has a tribal license – he/she could shoot over tribal trust land IF their season was also open at the time.

7. No person may discharge a firearm, muzzleloader, crossbow, or bow and arrow at any big-game animal, except turkeys, from within the right-ofway of an improved public highway. Turkeys may be taken with a shotgun using shotshells or with a bow and arrow within the right-of way.

8. A person may not discharge a firearm or other weapon across any Black Hills National Forest system road.

9. Any person while hunting a road right-of-way who negligently endangers another person or puts that person in fear of imminent serious bodily harm is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Reckless Discharge of a Firearm) 10. When in doubt, don’t shoot.

4. If the person who discharges a firearm is more than 50 yards from the vehicle, the doors on the side of the vehicle nearest to the roadway must be closed, but the engine may remain running.

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he howl of a wolf has long been used to add drama and suspense in the movies. It has the same effect for hunters.

Bear Creek Outfitters, headquartered in Darby, Montana, offers guided wolf hunts along with hunts for deer, elk, bear and mountain lion. Jim Daine, one of the outfitters, says they’ve had several hunters over the past few years with wolf tags.

“Hunting is an effective way to help control wolf populations. We had a large number of wolves until hunting seasons were finally allowed. At first, after wolves were introduced, they were only in a few areas, but they ate all the

prey and expanded their territories. We realized that as soon as it was legal to hunt them we had to get pack numbers down or we wouldn’t have any game animals left,” he says.

“Deer and elk numbers are still down but we’re seeing a slight increase again in the elk. We haven’t seen much of a moose comeback yet, but the ones that survive have learned to stay hidden,” says Daine. Wolves are at the top of the food chain and if humans don’t control them they just keep expanding.

Hunting wolves is not easy. The main tactics are to spot/track and stalk or spot and shoot. The Fish and Game Department sells an unlimited number of tags but there are quotas in some areas; once those target numbers are reached, the hunt is closed. “Here in

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the Selway-Bitterroot wilderness we have no quota, and a longer season (from September 1 until end of June), because there are not many hunters that come here to hunt wolves. The out-of-state fees for wolf tags are less expensive, too,” Daine says.

It’s a challenge to find and kill a wolf. “We keep an eye and ear out for wolves as we are guiding hunters for elk or other game. If we happen to see one, you might have a few seconds to get ready and try to connect,” he says.

Daine had one wolf hunter from the Midwest and another from Denmark in a group that was hunting bears. They happened upon an elk kill and went closer, hoping to see a bear, and a wolf stepped out of the brush 40 yards away. “My hunter was ready, and shot it,” he said.

On another trip, two of their hunters from Kentucky—Rex Parsons and his son—were successful. Parsons says that hunting

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A pilot flew them in from Hamilton one at a time in a Piper Super Cub. “That’s a pretty small plane! There was the pilot, one of us, and a hound. My son is a big kid, 6-foot-4 with broad shoulders; his shoulders were wider than the fuselage. So he flew into the Selway with the windows open in that little plane. But the cold didn’t bother him; he was pretty excited. The Super Cub landed on skis on the snow. The flight in that little plane was worth the whole trip. It can fly slow and close to the ground, and that country was absolutely gorgeous.”

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They hiked on up Bear Creek and pitched their tent—a rope and a tarp—and some ground pads to sleep on, with military arctic sleeping bags.

“We had a couple hours before dark, so we started up Bear Creek and did some howling just with our voices, with no response,” he says.

They sat there about 30 minutes looking across the valley, and saw a whitetail buck running for its life. “I told my son to get ready, because the only time I’ve ever seen a deer run like that was when it was being chased by German Shepherds here at home,” Parsons says.

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After a few minutes, they saw a big black wolf and big gray wolf on the trail of that deer. “We waited until they got straight across from us and then my son let out a howl. The wolves stopped dead in their tracks and looked right at us. We were 300 yards away, and I was down and ready with my rifle. When they stopped, I shot the big gray alpha wolf,” says Parsons. It weighed about 130 pounds.

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“We had to cross Bear Creek to get to it, and my son lost his balance and got both feet wet.

The temperature was about 8 degrees and he had to stand there with wet feet the whole time we were skinning that wolf.”

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The guides set up base camp at the little airstrip, and Parsons and his son hiked nine miles up Bear Creek in knee-deep snow with their packs.

While hiking in, they cut fresh wolf tracks. Two wolves were tracking a mountain lion. “Wolves harass mountain lions because they are competitors,” Parsons says.

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They got back to their camp and there wasn’t any wood for a fire. “What saved us is that Jim Daine made me take his little Jetboil camp heater. I call it a hippy heater because all the hikers carry them.”

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They took the wool liners out of the wet boots and stuck the heater into each wool liner until it got dry.

The next morning when they hiked out with the wolf, his feet were dry. But their wool bib overalls had been wet up to the knees, coming across that creek.

“When we crawled out of our little snow cave and put those on, we had to beat the frozen overalls on a rock until they got pliable enough to put them on.”

Parsons has hunted there for 25 years, and this trip was the most fun he’s ever had. “We saw bobcats and mountain lion tracks, and wound up getting two wolves on that hunt. I like seeing all the wildlife, but wolves are indiscriminate killers. I’ve seen a 2-yearold cow elk that wolves pulled down and they only ate about five pounds of meat, and went on to make another kill. If they run across something they can kill, they will kill it, whether they are hungry or not.

They are really hard on the game,” he says.

Opening the season on wolves has helped. There are not as many wolves as there were a few years back. “But they are smart. The ones in there now are very elusive.

All of us have heard one pack howling, many times, and have never been able to see them,” says Parsons.

A number of sportsmen in Idaho and Montana have taken the opportunity to hunt wolves, now that there is a legal hunting season. Dan Austin, a 52-year-old life-long resident of Salmon, Idaho has been fortunate to kill three wolves—in 2011, 2013 and 2014. “I’ve spent a lot of time at it, and called all the ones that I’ve been able to shoot. The wolves are smart, though, and wised up to that tactic; it doesn’t work as well anymore,” he says.

A person has to be determined, and lucky. “Some of the younger guys who are in good shape and can walk seven miles straight uphill on snowshoes often find wolf tracks and follow them. I am out there a lot however, because I trap a little in the winter, so I am always looking for wolves and trying to call them,” says Austin.

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The wolf season in eastern Idaho opens at the end of August and goes through the end of March. A person with a wolf tag can shoot a wolf while hunting deer or elk.

Austin spent six weeks last winter in Panther Creek, driving over there early in the morning every Friday.

During that time he found 17 dead elk–wolf kills– right along the road. He’s tracked wolves, but sometimes just bumps into them. Wolves are sneaky, so a shot isn’t guaranteed. “I’ve missed two that I tried to shoot. You have to be in shape, because they can go a long ways!”

Austin says they are the most exciting animals to hunt. “One time I was just scouting for deer and saw two wolves a couple miles away. I had my call with me and sat down and started calling. I thought it might be a half hour before they could get to me, if they could even hear me,” he says.

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He was sitting in tall sagebrush and had the call going, and peeked his head up. “There was one looking straight at me, about 60 yards away! I got back down, got the scope cover off my gun, turned the call off, and looked back up, and there were eight of them 30 yards away coming at me at a dead run!” he says.

“I was shaking, but I shot a big black one, and shot at

another and missed. That was intense! The two I saw off in the distance were huge, probably the alpha male and female. I think those big ones let the younger ones run in first, or else most of the pack was closer to me when I started calling. Those wolves had killed one of the rancher’s cows and had been eating on that,” says Austin.

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ob Inman, the Carnivore and Fur-bearer Coordinator for Montana Department of Wildlife and Parks says Montana has had wolf hunts for six years, but not consecutively. “The first season was in 2009 and then we sat it out in 2010 because of litigation to stop the hunts,” he says.

“We started with a state-wide quota of only 75 wolves because we wanted to begin conservatively and see how it was going to work.

Since then, we’ve incrementally ramped up the season and in 2012 added trapping.” Montana has a combined bag limit of five wolves per person total—which can be obtained by hunting and/or trapping.

The hunting season begins in early September. If someone is archery hunting for other game and has a wolf tag, they can legally take a wolf. “The wolf season goes through March 15th and trapping season goes from December 15th through the end of February, while furs are prime,” Inman says.

Montana and Idaho are currently the only states with wolf seasons. Wyoming is trying to have a hunt but wolves are still listed/protected in that state. “When the three states in 2008 presented their management plans to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (for state management of wolves), Wyoming’s plan was to manage wolves in northwestern Wyoming but if wolves came south and east they wanted an open season.

That wasn’t accepted, so they are still hashing out the details of their plan,” Inman explains.

Washington, Oregon and California are having problems with expanding wolf populations impacting wildlife and livestock, and may try to

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of the Hunt have wolf hunting seasons to help control these predators, but haven’t accomplished this yet. “There are also a lot of wolves in Minnesota and Michigan but currently no hunting season,” he says. In 2012, management of wolves was turned over to the states in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, but after three hunting seasons the protesters won in court and hunting was banned again in those states.

States must abide by certain guidelines in managing wolves. “One of the reasons that wolf recovery and delisting was so successful, compared with something like grizzly bears, is that USFWS set specific goals for recovery and the states met and exceeded those goals a long time ago. Each state had to have at least 15 breeding pairs and 150 wolves,” says Inman. This minimum was met by Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Montana met those goals in 2002, yet it was seven more years before hunting was allowed.

who are new to trapping might end up catching a pet, and this gives trapping a black eye; this is part of why we do the course,” says Inman.

Wolf biologists continue to monitor populations in Montana and Idaho. “We have to document the actual number of wolves, and that costs money. Wolf tags and licenses are an important source of revenue to help offset those costs. This is the only way the state can afford to manage wolves. Earlier we had to have a lot of federal funding, so now we are on our own and have to come up with it somewhere else.”

The controversy over hunting and trapping continues, however, and this fall there is a proposition on the ballot in Montana to ban all trapping on public lands. “That would impact our wolf season, and our ability to control their numbers,” says Inman.

“A lot of litigation held it up and the wolf population kept growing. We still have to document wolf numbers. As long as we don’t fall below the minimums we can control numbers by hunting.” Montana started with a number of management units, and quotas.

There are no longer quotas—with the exception of areas right outside national parks.

In 2008-2009 there was a lot of controversy and conflict, but since opening a hunting season the number of livestock losses and complaints has dropped significantly. Hunting has become an effective management technique, and helped bring numbers into better balance with prey species like elk, moose and deer; in some areas the expanding wolf populations decimated elk herds and moose populations.

Hunters have to be determined, and lucky, however, to shoot a wolf. “Success rates are not high. Hunting and trapping wolves is not easy. They are very smart and wary. Here in Montana we take about half of our wolf harvest by hunting and half by trapping. Before anyone can get a wolf-trapping license, we require that they take a wolf-trapping course. Some people

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ear Creek Outfitters’ headquarters is a little ranch halfway between Darby and Hamilton, Montana. Owner Ken Francisco and his hunting guides take hunters into the nearby Selway/ Bitterroot wilderness area. One of his guides, Jim Daine, has worked for Bear Creek Outfitters 16 years.

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Guide, Jim Daine, has worked for Bear Creek Outfitters 16 years.

“I met Ken in 1988 when I went through guide school. In 2000 he took over an outfitting business and renamed it Bear Creek Outfitters. We were friends and he asked me to go to work for him. I’ve been working for him off and on ever since,” says Daine. His jobs with Bear Creek are varied.

During the summer they offer trips into the backcountry. For many years they contracted with the Forest Service in summer to do trail maintenance, clearing out brush and downed trees. “We also do the haying, fencing and other tasks required on the ranch to provide for the stock, as well as guide hunters in the fall,” Daine says.

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“This year we subcontracted some work for the Stock Farm at Hamilton, Montana for their trail ride program. They have multiple trails on their 13,000 acres, and we take people on rides. Due to the fire on forest land above their property this year, the roads were closed and we couldn’t get to our trail heads for a while,” he says.

During winter, after the late hunts are over, employees do their own things. Daine builds antler art (lights, chandeliers, etc.) from deer and elk antlers, and this past winter helped build a cabin and some decorative lights for a man in Kentucky.

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Bear Creek Outfitters offers 8-day hunts for clients in the fall for elk, deer (mule deer and whitetail), black bear, wolves and mountain lions. They used to offer moose hunts, but moose numbers plummeted after wolves were reintroduced.

Ken Francisco, owner of Bear Creek Outfitters, grew up in Poulsbo, Washington and originally planned to go to Alaska to start a guide business.

“I came over here to the Bar 44 guide school in Hamilton, in May 1991 and went through the fiveweek class with a friend of mine. When the class

was over, the instructor knew we wanted to go to Alaska and told us he could send us up there, but offered us a job working for him—and maybe we could go to Alaska later. By then we’d become familiar with western Montana and the Selway wilderness in Idaho, and decided to stay,” says Francisco.

He and his friend ended up teaching the next class. He worked for that outfitter nine years and helped teach classes, and guided for other outfitters in Montana doing some antelope, elk and mule deer hunts.

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Lil’ Feller “I had to get a real job for a short time, then in 1999 I bought the area where we’d had the guide school. We still guide for that outfitter in Montana, but also have the Idaho wilderness area he used to have. We’ve been doing this for 17 years, with our own outfitting business,” he says. Clients can take advantage of many kinds of experiences in the backcountry—hunting, or just riding or fishing trips, custom-designed for what they want to do.

Outfitting and guiding is a tough way to make a living; a person has to be dedicated and really want to do it. “We’re not in it for the money. It’s a way of life,” says Francisco.

In the off-season when he’s not taking people on guided trips, he does a lot of truck driving— log trucks, dump trucks, hauling heavy equipment. One winter he did carpenter work, and another winter he and one of the guys who works for him went to Kentucky and put in a 7-mile gas line for one of the people who helps him during hunting season. For a few years he also had an inter-state horse-hauling business.

“When we worked for the fellow in Kentucky we came back with six mules; we took a trailer down there with us and bought more mules for our pack strings,” he says. It takes a lot of stock to keep the business running. Right now he has 37 mules and horses, but at one point had as many as 54.

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Sometimes he’ll sell an exceptionally good horse or mule in order to buy four more young ones to train. Right now he has a bunch of good horses he’s using for trail rides on the Stock Farm nearby. This is a private gated community/golf course and Bear Creek Outfitters lined up all their best horses to provide rides.

“We probably have about a dozen horses that are getting into the 15 to 20-year-old range and very dependable, and those are really hard to replace,” he says.

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BACKCOUNTRY TRIPS Pack trips into the wilderness area are varied, depending on the season and purpose. “We have a system in which we get all the gear together and pre-set the camps. My wife Barb creates a grocery list and gets all the supplies we need, because when you go in there 20 miles you can’t run home or to the grocery store for something you forgot! You don’t want to miss anything you really need,” he says.

They’ve never hired a cook; the guides all help with the cooking.

Barb pre-fixes some of the meals,

and all of the guides take a hand in the barbeque cooking. Whichever guide has hunters in a spike camp does the cooking. Most of the hunters also like to pitch in; that’s part of the experience.

The hunters spend their first night at the ranch near Darby.

“That’s when we put their gear together in packs. The next morning we go up the road to the trail head, pack the string and go into the backcountry.” How far they go depends on time of year and the hunting season. They have 14 different spike camps in various

places, and alternate the use on those, according to where the elk or other game might be.

They guide lion hunts and spring bear hunts, but fall hunts are mainly oriented around elk.

The elk hunters can also get a deer tag, bear tag or wolf tag. This doesn’t affect the price of their guided hunt; they just have to purchase the additional tags. “We also guide a few deer-only hunts, later in the season,” he says.

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Every trip has unique situations and some interesting stories. “This is one of the things that inspire us to keep doing it. There’s also the accomplishment of getting a hunter his/her animals, and that’s a satisfaction similar to doing the hunting yourself. We give them the same kind of experience that we would enjoy,” he says.

Many people are good hunters, but it takes a special kind of good hunter to be a good guide because this requires people skills as well as hunting. “You have to do it a certain way, to ensure hunters a good (and hopefully successful) experience. This is the mark of a good guide; even if the hunter doesn’t get an animal, he/she is still happy with the trip. Perhaps the hunter wasn’t able to shoot it, but did get to see the game. Our best effort is put forth to give them an opportunity to get an animal,” explains Francisco.

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Most hunters come with a good attitude; they are here for the experience and if they get an animal that’s a plus. “We have a lot of success stories, and guys who scraped together enough money to come on a trip, or their boss sends them on a trip as a bonus. It can be a oncein-a-lifetime adventure for hunters, so we try hard. We know they are never going to get this kind of opportunity again. We want it to be something they will always remember with pleasure.”

He and Barb still get Christmas cards, phone calls and e-mails from people who hunted with them 20 years ago. Lasting friendships are made in this business. The hunters remember it as something special and want to keep in touch.

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It can be challenging, however, with financial issues, changing Fish and Game regulations, etc.

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is to be able to keep doing this long enough to hand it over to children or grandchildren as a permanent heritage. You want them to be able to continue to do it, and not have to see the door close on this way of life.

“If you are not learning something every day, you are probably not doing it right. You need to be flexible and have an open mind about possibilities. If you are looking for the right thing, you are continually learning something and become successful in what you do.”

People skills are a must. “You have to be entertaining, informative, but not too overbearing, and always keep an open mind. Others may have a good suggestion. You also learn to adjust to the client’s ability. What you’d like to do and what you can do are not always the same.”

Guides learn to assess the skill/ ability level of the hunter and become accommodating.

Physical condition is a common challenge, and a guide learns how to coax and encourage a hunter to put a little more effort into it. “It’s a mindset, because most people are stronger/tougher than they think they are,” he says. If they really want to do it, they will give it more try.

Most of the hunters come away with a new respect for the backcountry. “We get a lot of return hunters who know what to expect. They are learning something each time and they enjoy the challenge,” says Francisco.

“Many of our hunters are self-employed. They can schedule the time off and come do this. Some of them work all year, to make it happen. They may call me a dozen times during the year, psyching themselves up, getting prepared for their big trip.”

This is part of the satisfaction, giving these folks an experience they wouldn’t have, otherwise. It’s a unique service. “We go into Unit 17 in the Selway where there is a relatively long season with not very much hunting pressure. The folks we guide enjoy having a hunt with no other hunters around. They rarely see another hunter.”

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t looks like a dozer track. The ruts can be three feet deep. What kind of equipment caused that much damage? Biological equipment. Feral hogs.

Feral is defined as “having escaped from domestication and become wild.” USDA estimates approximately six million feral hogs are causing losses all over the country. Oklahoma has a serious hog problem.

It’s difficult to get exact counts on feral hogs because they are secretive and cunning. A 2007 study by the Noble Foundation found feral hogs in 74 of Oklahoma’s 77 counties with a number between 617,000 and 1.4 million statewide. It is a problem that grows exponentially each year, since wild hogs produce two, and maybe even three, litters of pigs per year at an average of four to 10 live piglets per litter.

Hog populations are most dense in areas following river drainage or other water sources. The earliest feral hogs reported in Oklahoma were in the south central and southeast portions of the state, but they soon spread northwest.

All feral hogs in the U.S. were escaped domestic animals until the 1930s when sport hunters began importing Russian wild boars from Europe and Asia and releasing them.

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travelers. Hunters continued to reintroduce the Russian hogs and improved pastures and crops provided improved food sources. Since feral hogs are highly adaptable and reproduce rapidly, the numbers soon got out of control. Current populations include pure Russian hogs, pure domestic hogs and crossbreds of the two.

Wild hogs come in most every color, including spotted and belted. Russian hogs have the longest bristle length. Wild hogs may reach 300 pounds and beyond, but most are around 36 inches tall and between 100 and 150 pounds.

Boars have four continually growing tusks that are very sharp and reach five inches long before they are broken or worn off from use.

The tusks are used for defense and to establish dominance during breeding. Males develop thick, tough skin composed of cartilage and scar tissue in the shoulder area, sometimes referred to as a “shield.” The shield develops continually with age and from fighting.

Pure Russian hogs have lighter underside color and the legs, ears and tails are darker than the body. They have longer legs and snouts than straight domestic ferals and shorter, straighter tails. Russian hogs can raise the hair on the backs of their necks and shoulders.

This is where the term “razorback” originated.

Feral hogs range as far as 19 square miles and possibly farther if food sources are scarce.

Boars travel and feed alone. Feral hog groups are called “sounders,” and are made up of sows and piglets.

Trapping is probably the most common method of control. Game wardens and others who work to control the hog population stress the need to begin control is when signs first appear because the prolific nature insures

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once the numbers grow, the hogs become permanent residents. At that point, eradication is unlikely and landowners are left trying to control the population.

Luke Williams said he has trapped 55 head in a trap in Delaware County, Oklahoma. This is in the far northeast corner of the state.

Traps can be cage or corral type, but they need tops as the hogs can climb. Often corral traps are made of steel panels and T-posts. Cage traps catch fewer hogs but are portable. Since the hogs are wary and observant, it is best to bait traps with the doors tied open until the hogs will go all the way to the back to eat. A Judas hog is often used inside the trap to lure others.

Another method of control is hunting. Jeff Crosswhite of Newkirk, Okla., has been hunting hogs since 1981.

“I was on the Bledsoe ranch between the Caney and Verdigris rivers,” Crosswhite said.

“The hogs started eating on heifers that were down calving and I was finding hide and bones left of calves. I had dogs I used on cattle in the brush, so I started using them to hunt.”

Crosswhite’s dogs are mostly Catahoulas. He said using the dogs made a dent in the sizable hog population on that ranch.

“They will leave where you start hunting with dogs,” Crosswhite said.

Crosswhite said the state of Oklahoma brought helicopters to hunt the hogs, but “all you get shot are the dumb ones.” He said hogs hear the helicopters long before they arrive, and take cover.

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Crosswhite said while most of the hogs he catches are around 150 pounds, a good number of the boars weigh around 250 pounds.

“The biggest one I’ve got is 460 pounds. I weighed him at the Talala (Okla.) feed mill.”

Crosswhite said many farmers around Newkirk hire him to hunt hogs because of damage to

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equipment. “One fellow I hunt for has a cornfield on the river and he busted a header when he went to harvest. It was ruined.”

Crosswhite said the adaptability of hogs is amazing. “I’ve hunted where there was a lot of poison ivy, and those hogs had eaten that poison ivy as far as they could rear up on the trees. They raise all their pigs. The other sows help them. All the sows watch over all the pigs and they will nurse each other’s pigs.”

Hog hunting is free in Oklahoma by any means at any time. Kansas has outlawed hunting hogs except with purchased tags. Kansas game wardens set traps. Crosswhite said these rules have resulted in “bad hog problems.”

Crosswhite said the wild hogs will kill domestic dogs and come into yards to root. “I know a woman who had them kill her dog and they’ve torn her yard up. She won’t go outside. They’ll put you up a tree. All you can do is try to manage them,” Crosswhite said.

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Fencing, toxicants and natural predators are also used as control for wild hogs.

Hogs are usually the last blamed for livestock losses because they carry kills away to eat

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hogging prof i ts Pseudorabies is not related to the rabies virus and does not infect humans. It does weaken pigs, cause abortions, stillbirths and makes infected domestic hogs lifetime carriers. Infected animals periodically shed the virus through their mouths and noses.

It is transmitted by direct contact, contaminated feed and water, ingestion of contaminated tissue and contaminated trailers.

Swine brucellosis causes abortion and failure to breed. It is transmissible to humans, at which point it is called undulant fever.

Any contact with contaminated fetuses or tissue can spread the disease to humans. It is spread between hogs by direct and sexual contact, which poses a threat to the domestic hog population.

Some ranchers have turned a bad situation into a moneymaker. Sportsmen pay for guided hog hunts. Some of the ranches have bounties on the largest hogs.

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As the hogs continue to multiply and extend their range, more areas will see the effects. The Texas Department of Agriculture estimates seven out of every 10 hogs must be killed to keep the population in that state at the level it is now - not to decrease the population, just to keep it static. For many states like Oklahoma, hogs are probably here to stay. The key now is control.

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My dream hunt

l l e p S T!he of the

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There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where;

There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair;

There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still;

There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back — and I will.

–from “The Spell of the Yukon”

by Robert W. Service.

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hrough a series of random meetings and a struck-up conversation in a charming sidewalk café in Reno, my husband Will and I found ourselves booked for a caribou hunt with a ranching/outfitting family, Mary, Alan, Logan and Jessica Young, in the Yukon a few years ago.

We made a down payment and were given an essential supply list, unequivocal maximum baggage weight per person – “two duffels not over 50#, plus rifle” and unequivocal date of September 10 to be in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, two days before our scheduled flight to Midnight Sun’s main camp for our hunt September 12– 23, 2011.

Choosing to “see the country” by driving the 2100+ miles, we equipped the 3/4-ton GMC with topper, coolers and a good bed for motel/ campground versatility. Departing September 3 we entered Canada via the Sweetwater/Coutts port September 5. It was painless and relatively swift, even with hunting license and firearm.

After overnighting at Whitecourt, early Hudson Bay trading post at the confluence of McCloud and Athabasca Rivers, my September 6 journal mentions “very different, beautiful country . . . hummock-y ground covered in tall, tall coniferous and dedicious trees . . . much hay in bales . . . canola fields at different stages.” We toured Dawson Creek’s great Museum before passing Milepost 1 on the Alaskan Highway to camp in a Provincial Park on the Kiskatinaw River.

Sept. 7 the Old Alaskan Highway into Fort St. John took us across an engineering phenomenon, AlCan Bridge – the curved and 9-degreeslanted wooden work-of-art our soldiers built across the Kiskatinaw River as they began the storied Alaskan highway. I journaled, “A lot of change today from big high prairies into deep timber, canyons, mountains of all kinds . . . many big rivers, some run East, some North, some are green, some are muddy, some are lazy and some, as the aptly-named Racing River, truly race! By Will’s geology we’ve been in quartsite, granite, sand, bentonite and many other formations today. Saw more than twenty caribou . . . two black bears grazing greedily on clover . . . seventysome Wood Bison, a dozen Stones Sheep ewes and lambs . . gas, supper and overnite near the Laird River at Coal Creek, a Wood Bison bull wandering the campground.”

This was the day I discovered the tantalizing “smell of the North” I’ve read about in books, and loved having in my nostrils until around the same point returning home.

From there everything became more exciting and wonderful, “wild-looking BIG country”

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Yukon’s Hart River from the air. COURTESY Photo

according to my notes there’s no space to share. Long hard miles on narrow tarmac, elevated to avoid sinking into the muskeg. And magical, storybook places . . . Whitehorse . . . finally Dawson City – where my grandfather Sedgwick’s brother spent some years, made some fortune in gold, and lost his health to scurvy. My Dawson City highlight was getting to play piano some at our hotel one night and the next evening in the historic Jack London Lounge!

Despite my angst about warm socks or rubber boots getting left at the airport because my bags might be overweight, everything got onboard and the breathtaking flight with an experienced elderly pilot wormed us between mountain peaks to settle lightly at Midnight Sun’s main camp, Hart Lake on Yukon’s beautiful Hart River. We feasted on homecooking in the rustic lodge and slept well in a snug cabin after lively conversation with hunters from Austria, Texas and elsewhere who’d flown in with us.

Spike Camp on Three Barrel Creek. COURTESY PhotoS

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I discovered a Yukon outhouse comfort-secret – 1 1/2” Styrofoam insulation material tops the wood, and even though there’s no door (unit just points away from camp at the end of the path) it feels warm, not damp and cold like wood!

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We float-planed into spike camp on Three Barrel Creek the next morning with a skilled pilot who made it work with three passengers where there’s really only enough water and space to accommodate a single-passenger unit. The outhouse was shocking … the Pepto-Bismol-pink Styrofoam seat was 3” thick and a huge bite was gone from the center, sporting teethmarks the guide said were “probably grizzly”!

The wind died with the dark, so waking from a sound sleep after a good supper and snuggling into my comfy cot to hear “whish . . . whish” and see the tent wall move occasionally in keeping with the sounds paralyzed me into not even breathing – which I didn’t want to do anyway because of a horrid stench. This phenomenon traveled the length of the tent . . . moving sounds faded from earshot but I remained wide awake to inform my spouse, rising from a sound sleep some time later, not to go outside without his gun! It was still locked in the case, but he got it out.... The guide told us next morning, from the behavior and stench it was either a wolf or a grizzly investigating things.

We chose saddles, adjusted stirrups and for a week guide Ryan led us over 20 miles or more of awesome Yukon landscape daily, on good Midnight Sun horses. Long days and miles in the saddle were normal to our Wyoming ranchworking lives, but there was nothing “normal” about the Yukon. Traversing muskeg is like a walking on a 12” soft foam mattress, except it’s wet. Hooves sink at least 5” each step, often more, and come up dripping water . . . the same on top of a mountain as near the creekbottom. Our cook was half

mountain goat, half Yukon outdoors encyclopedia – tough to keep up with, but capable of teaching me fun wonderful things like finding and gathering aromatic tea, and miniscule moss berries delicious in morning pancakes. Weather was unusually mild for the season, delaying caribou migrations; a true boon for us as we hunted hard, savoring long day after long day, rather than filling a tag early.

Ranging ever farther from camp we saw constantly differing terrain impossible to describe in mere words. Dense tall timber, deep narrow creeks, high meadows and rocky outcrops where you can see forever, lovely meandering rivers with wide gravelly bottoms and rushing channels, miles of bog where a horse’s hindquarters disappear with a false step, rider leaping for solid ground from which to help pull him out. Steep caliche hillsides occasionally rivered by slides of flat rock treacherous to cross… miles and miles of beautiful memories. But not a single bull caribou, and only two or three cows had been seen.

Another guide, Tee, packed in two days from his distant camp with his string of horses, tough Austrian hunter Hans, and Hans’s trophy Alaskan moose rack. Alan Young sent the message that we would not be flown out until Will had a chance to shoot a caribou. Tee offered to take us with him and Hans the next day, but we opted to go one more day with Ryan and Neal, who’d flown in some days earlier to help pack. Will’s 30-06 had met a mishap, causing the already-repaired stock to part, so Neal offered him his ought-six and asked if he wanted to try it out – he declined . . . reckoned it was sighted in and would shoot just fine.

Dun Haflinger, Ty, packing in the Yukon.

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That day we climbed higher and saw more country from a distance and explored a pristine glacial lake we’ll never see the likes of again, coming home more tired than any day, yet more exhilarated. We were met by an ecstatic Hans, whose caribou horns were on display in front of the kitchen.

He stopped my horse to explain, in his eager broken English with hand signals, that Will would get his caribou tomorrow because they’d seen two bunches but Tee did not let the one bunch know they were there. They went on and found another bunch and got Hans’s shot there, a distance from the others. There were bulls in the undisturbed bunch and he knew Tee would take Will there the next day!

Neal accompanied Tee and us the following morning, leading a pack horse to retrieve Hans’s dressed animal. It was foggy and hard to see, but we rode right to it and once it was packed Neal headed back to camp and we went on - soon finding caribou down near the Hart River. Good stalking and a convenient gully got us within a couple hundred yards on horseback.

I stayed near the tied horses while the guys put the sneak on the caribou.

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After hearing two shots and waiting a while, I got up where I could see them dressing out the bull, so took the horses over closer where there was brush to tie into. When they were ready I led up little dun Haflinger, Ty, with his packbox

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Hans led the celebration in camp when we arrived, but no one was happier than Will about “how well his borrowed gun worked!”

The caribou meat was delicious, the caribou hide and European-mount rack are beautiful, and it truly was a “dream hunt” for us. I can highly recommend

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By RHONDA SEDgWICK STEARNS Written in Yukon Territory, Three Barrel camp of Midnight Sun Outfitters, By candle light in a tent 9/17/2011

In her silent, vast wilderness secrets abound For her pioneers cut few clear trails Her mysteries linger ‘cause she speaks not a sound An’ no tracker can cipher the sign….

Who sleeps in this grave overlooking a lake On the crick that is known as “Three Barrel?”

Could it be one of those who meant to go home Then succumbed to her spell and died of some peril?

The Yukon’s a wild, rare beauty Who has lured in many a soul – They came to “see the elephant,” Then prob’ly trap, or pan for gold.

She’s always a willing teacher For those who can be taught The wisdom she’ll impart to you Is not the kind that’s bought.

Or one of First Nations’, whose roots ran deep here And had the best home they could make?

It’s plain someone with honor was here at the end; Love shows in the fixin’ that was done for their sake.

So pillow your head on her fragrant breast While her wind/fir symphony woos you . . .

Ere long you’ll change – to slave, from guest – For the Call of the Wild pursues you….

That precious home you’ve been longin’ for so Where dear hearts and arms would enfold you Is now wispily wafting where your campfire smokes go ‘Till you find that you’re no longer blue.

It’s the spell of the Yukon, the flash of her eyes In the song and the dance of her streams – As the minutes, hours and months pass by You discover a change in your dreams.

To honor the life of man, woman, or child With lovely hand-carved posts marked with clover, Memorializing one who died in the wild . . .

A worn enameled plate serves as marker and stone.

Yes, Yukon, you’ve sung me your wild siren song You’ve taught me this visit is all too brief – Even sampling your pleasures could take a life long And I’m sure you would not disappoint.

Time is up – I must leave – yet I’ll never forget Your fragrance – Your sights – Your sounds – and Your taste – In my heart will remain this yearning you’ve set . . .

Words now fail, so this is THE END

She’s bound you ‘round in her gossamer web (Like the frost-sparkled ones on the trail) Nobody’s immune – be ye Yankee or Reb – She owns you . . . for glory or doom.

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