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Nicely Done!! That's a great bull! Congratulations! Amanda

Thanks TJ! It helps if the businesses know the ads are working and that people here appreciate their support! Amanda

I use a canon GL2 and Pinnacle Studio software. Pinnacle is a fairly easy program to use and not so expensive either. It's not quite as high end as some other software, but it works for me. If you get into video editing remember you need massive amounts of memory, hard disk space and good graphics/video card. It's just frustrating to edit video on an underpowered machine. Amanda

here is a link to one of the pinned topics on this. You might find some useful stuff in this thread. http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/in...showtopic=14027

Learn about mountain lions and bighorn sheep at free presentation Sept. 15, 2009 Seminar with panel of wildlife experts to be webcast online PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department invites the public to a free educational presentation on Wednesday, Sept. 23 to learn about the natural history, management efforts, and biological and social issues related to mountain lions and bighorn sheep in Arizona. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the department’s Phoenix office at 5000 W. Carefree Highway. To accommodate interested constituents who are unable to attend in person, the seminar will be webcast simultaneously on the Internet by visiting www.azgfd.gov/webcast. For those watching online, questions may be submitted electronically for consideration during the interactive question-and-answer period. A panel of three of the department’s expert wildlife biologists will each provide a 15-minute informative presentation with pictures, natural history and management objectives. Ron Thompson will speak on mountain lions; John Hervert will cover bighorn sheep; Pat Barber will provide an overall summary of the department’s role for managing both species in southwestern Arizona, including the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The speakers have more than 70 years of collective experience in wildlife management: Pat Barber, a second-generation Yuma native, is the department’s Yuma regional supervisor. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in biology with an emphasis in fish and wildlife management from Northern Arizona University. In his 14 years with the department, Barber spent eight years in the field as a wildlife manager, was the predator and furbearer biologist, and was the department’s chief of law enforcement before assuming his current position. He is very knowledgeable about bighorn sheep and mountain lion management. Barber played a lead role in the change to the three-month closure for the mountain lion hunting season, regulatory protection for female lions with spotted kittens, and establishing the mechanisms requiring physical check-in for hunter-harvested mountain lions to improve data collection. John Hervert is the department’s wildlife program manager in the Yuma regional office. He has a Master of Science degree in wildlife ecology from the University of Arizona. Hervert is a veteran biologist of 25 years with the department. His knowledge and experience is extensive, with 30 years working with desert ungulates (desert bighorn sheep and mule deer) and 20 years working with mountains lions in the Sonoran Desert. Hervert’s areas of special interest include water physiology, development of aerial survey techniques, and re-establishment of bighorn sheep and two endangered species, the Sonoran pronghorn and Mexican Wolf. Ron Thompson is the department’s large carnivore biologist. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife biology from the University of Arizona. Before rejoining the department in his current position, Thompson had a long career as a wildlife manager. After retirement, he was a contract wildlife biologist involved in adaptive management strategies for bighorn sheep and mountain lions for projects in New Mexico as part of the Turner Endangered Species Fund and in Arizona and the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. He is highly interested in using leading-edge DNA science for the future management of carnivores. Thompson is responsible for the development of a statewide conservation plan for mountain lions and bears. After the presentations, the public is encouraged to engage in a question-and-answer session to address questions, concerns and issues about these dynamic species. Web viewers will have access to a link at www.azgfd.gov/webcast for submitting questions to the panel electronically for consideration. The mission of the Arizona Game and Fish Department is to conserve, enhance, and restore Arizona's diverse wildlife resources and habitats through aggressive protection and management programs, and to provide wildlife resources and safe watercraft and off-highway vehicle recreation for the enjoyment, appreciation, and use by present and future generations. To learn more about the desert bighorn sheep and mountain lions in Kofa Mountains Complex and the department’s management objectives, visit www.azgfd.gov/kofa. The Arizona Game and Fish Department prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, or disability in its programs and activities. If anyone believes that they have been discriminated against in any of the AGFD’s programs or activities, including employment practices, they may file a complaint with the Deputy Director, 5000 W. Carefree Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85086-5000, (602) 942-3000, or with the Fish and Wildlife Service, 4040 N. Fairfax Dr. Ste. 130, Arlington, VA 22203. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation or this document in an alternative format by contacting the Deputy Director as listed above.

Wow, neat place for a baptism! Amanda

Congratulations!! That's awesome!! Amanda

Nice group of bucks! Amanda

Nice trip Doug! Sorry you didn't any birds, but sounds like you all had a good time and certainly took in some fantastic scenery!! Thanks for the always creative write-up and excellent pics to go with it! Amanda

Have a great birthday Linnea!!! Amanda

Awesome Stan!! Congrats to all the kids for their well-earned birds! I still remember some bacon wrapped quail you grilled up at an ADA youth camp....man were those good!! I imagine these doves were just as great. Amanda

Thanks for the plug Kent!! That's a great pic you took of your pack with all the gear in it! Jaret (the maker of the AGC pack) seems like a really great guy. I have spoken with him a bunch and he is a pleasure to talk to and a serious hunter/outdoorsman and would sure appreciate the business. It's hard for a little guy to compete with a big company like Badlands, but I think Jaret makes an excellent product. And it's made in the USA! When he decided to have them made in the USA he knew the price would go up and that would hurt his sales and he still did it! Amanda

Hubby and I went to go check a cam we have had out for over three weeks. Unfortunately, the card filled after just a few days so I wish I had checked it earlier. Had a nice sow and her cub come in several times a day. Check out her front right shoulder. She has an injury. Maybe somone shot her during the recent bear season? Don't know, but the injury doesn't seem too bad and seems to be healing. The cam is still out there so I should be able to see how she is doing in a couple weeks. This water hole is just a puddle in a mostly dried up creek. The bears seem to come in, drink what they can and then come back after the puddle refills. Lots of different species of birds took advantage of this puddle to bathe and drink. Even got a hawk and an owl here. The owl could have come in to hunt insects around the water too. Lots of colorful birds came in. got a chipmunk in with the birds too this skunk came by a couple times too and a doe and fawn got a cool drink also. Perhaps only one fawn left from the set of twins? Not sure since the cam slipped a little and pointed more toward the ground and so I can't see if there was really only one fawn or not.

WoW Doug, those are some GREAT shots. You have outdone yourself this time!! Nice work! Thanks for sharing those with us. I think landscapes are some of the toughest things to shoot, but you sure pulled it off. My husband thinks I should try and get you to teach a landscape photography class to a bunch of CW.com'ers. Maybe do it as a fund raiser for some charity? Or maybe do it as a fund raiser for the RedRabbit hunting fund.... Amanda

Lightning is definitely not something to be messed with. My husband almost got struck in our backyard the other day!! Scared the crap out of me since I was watching when the bolt hit our neighbors place. The thunder clap was deafening and instantaneous. That is serious POWER! We had some close to us again last night at a party and moved into the porch out of the open. I have been guilty of taking cover under a juniper tree during intense hail storms like the guy that got killed. You have to do something or you just keep getting battered and bruised by the hail. Standing in the open never seems like the smart thing to do, so I just try and not choose the tallest tree or the one on the top of a ridge, etc. Amanda

This past weekend I was up helping on an elk hunt and saw one sticker on an ATV which I later learned was Greg Verlander's. Nice to finally meet you at camp Greg!! The other sticker was on the back window a white Ford truck pulled over on the main road near the Big Lake turnoff. You must have been out chasing elk, so likely you won't see this post for awhile, but if you do, let me know who you are. Amanda

Wow, that's great. Imagine having an 83 inch antelope under your belt at 14! Amanda

neat pics! I haven't seen a big group of coatis in awhile, but it's fun to watch them working a hillside. Amanda

Way to go Troy!! Those are some great looking birds! Nice to see CW.com members helping each other out! Thanks to Matthew and Ernesto for making this happen! Amanda

Wow, that is a pretty good pic considering. And wow, looks like a great buck! Amanda

Don't beat yourself up for passing that 53yd shot. I am sure it was the best decision. Afterall you don't want to spend days tracking a wounded bull. That would have made you feel even worse! Congrats on your nice bull!! Looks like the spacing on his tines is a little funky.....missing a 3rd tine on his left antler and perhaps missing the 2nd on his right? Amanda

Congrats! Neat little point off the main beam. Amanda

Looks like your boy made a perfect shot on a pretty small target! Congrats! Amanda

This past weekend, I was up in Unit 1 and 27 helping Scott Adams since his two boys have archery bull tags. Bulls not bugling great yet, but there were some spots that were definitely heating up. We camped with Duwane Adams and his clients had been on some big bulls but not gotten shots yet. Someone Scott knows that wasn't hunting with us, killed a 380-390 bull yesterday. It was a gorgeous bull! The bugling will only get stronger and in another week or two it should be awesome up there! Lots of rain during the hunt so far and in fact they had to set up camp in 4 inches of hail!! Amanda

Awesome, Alaska is a truly amazing place!! Glad you got to go!! Amanda