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Both need to be unloaded and encased. " I am on my ATV with my crossbow ready to hunt. " not allowed.

I hope you are still steelheading this fall/winter and doing those reports.

Smitty , I noticed both of your pork loin halves are labelled sirloin half. The messy is where they had to cut around the hip joint, they also have rib half, which is the front half of the loin so you avoid that somewhat. The best is what they call centre cut, both messy ends removed but then it is not $1.44 a pound either. I toss the ends in the slow cooker with apple juice for pulled pork or cut up for pork stir frys.

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There is a linkage that you undo when dropping the lower end to change the water pump impeller, perhaps this one slipped or was not lined up properly .

Nice , great video, I'd consider a shorter rod for jigging, especially if you are fishing alone, netting the first 2 looked awkward.

I don't know about the legality but a truckload of these fellas should clean up the problem http://ackenberrytroutfarms.com/grass-carp-prices-alberta.html Funny, they are for sale out there and here they are the scourge of the Great Lakes.

What you are seeing is probably an area in the middle stages of succession, This lesson has a good writeup and graphics of the stages. Also perhaps what you see is known as the "Edge Effect " you will see greater diversity along the edge of a forest or where a road bisects a forest because of the lateral sunlight penetration , this allows many more different species of flora to grow than is possible further in. These edges are very attractive to wildlife because of this diversity, you will see far more grouse along a logging road or along the edge than deep into a woods for example. http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/83599936/boreal_forest_succession.html The use of these herbicides speed up this succession returning the forest to its original mature state which is surely what was originally cut.

Chris , Boreal Forests are typically even aged single species forests born out of fire, not unlike a tree farm but without the neat rows.

You can turn that loin into real bacon http://www.nwedible.com/how-to-make-canadian-bacon-at-home/

In keeping with this turn of the thread and herbicides, anyone else remember the early 70's , when the US war on drugs was spraying Mexican herbs with Paraquat, nobody would touch Mexican weed back then for fear of getting more chemical than you bargained for. MB2 better watch your field for low flying copters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat

By slashes I assume you mean clear cuts. Yes the browsing would be better in an unsprayed clearcut after a few years. Before cutting though it was probably a mature even aged spruce or pine forest with next to no browse. Burns or clear cuts are only attractive to browsing animals for a few years and as they mature the animals move on.

I was taught to always set the emergency brake before shifting to park when parking on an incline.

Here is their answer http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/pubwarehouse/pdfs/32344.pdf

Salt and vinegar will kill weeds and we put it on our French Fries. These roundup type herbicides are way safer than the stuff used in the 50's and sixties , remembering Atrazine on corn and using 2-4-D and 2-4-5-T to kill weeds in the vineyards and orchards, you older folk may remember a cocktail of the last 2 as Agent Orange a defoliant used in the Vietnam conflict and responsible for a lot of health issues with servicemen. Our railways and hydro crews used it to keep their easements clear of bush too.

Chukar...Saw my first one , picking gravel in the parking lot at work at least 10 years ago along the south service road in Stoney Creek. Seem to be locally common now, where there is pay to hunt game farms as previously mentioned. Haven't seen the similar Hungarian Partridge in many more years, was a few around Smithville when I was young.

I have taken a few courses in Silviculture , Forestry U of T Class of 74, eventually ended up in an unrelated field Seems that they now spray fairly recently cut over areas with herbicides to reduce the competition between the faster growing broad leafed plants and deciduous seedlings with the slower, more desirable coniferous spruce and pines. I assume that the broad leaf plants get a significantly higher dose than the thin spruce and pine needles effectively weeding them out and let the spruce and pines survive. Not crazy about the practice but here is a piece of propaganda on the subject. http://www.sudburyforest.com/herbicideuse.html

That is not too cool, spraying for budworm with Bacillus thuringiensis is pretty safe as it is more of a biological control being a bacteria that attacks caterpillars, herbicides on the other hand are pretty nasty stuff, a little surprised they are still doing stuff like that on a large scale.

I'm guessing Ojibway or Cree, could be the ministry spraying for pests like spruce budworm.

Correct, especially if they are triploids escaped from some one's pond.

No , that is the Silver Carp. Grass Carp eat vegetation , the ones that really screw things up are the filter feeders like the Silver and Bighead Carp that eat plankton, the same thing the fry of our gamefish eat. There have been a few grass carp caught over the last few years, think there was actually sterile ones for sale at one time for vegetation control. edit: http://ackenberrytroutfarms.com/grass-carp-prices-alberta.html

new flyer .........vacuum packed boneless pork loin halves at Food Basics for $1.44 a pound, slice them up into boneless chops or roasts. Time to stockup.

Crazy, that whole big front on the radar dissipsated over Hamilton never made it this far, not a drop or a kaboom.

Like back in July , these are Grass Carp, while not a good thing , they are not the silver carp that explode out of the water when boats pass.

Another of my favourite deceased guitar heroes. Stuff like this from 68, stands the test of time much better than some Liverpool boy band tripping through strawberry fields.