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The Truth About Trapping: An Honest Look at a Controversial Topic

Posted on March 28, 2016 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comJune 23, 2018
Is fur trapping good or bad, or in between? Types of traps, humaneness, livestock protection, impact on wildlife populations & disease, trapper education, laws, & monitoring, & non-target captures are discussed here. This honest post profiles of 2 trappers and 1 animal rights activist, and reviews research studies. It's complicated & you need to decide for yourself what the "truth" is before embracing it as supplemental income for your homestead, or before embarking on an anti-trapping campaign

An honest attempt to determine the pros and cons of fur trapping. A review of research and input from trappers and an animal rights activist, help you decide for yourself what is the truth about trapping.

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Posted in Mammals, Wildlife | Tagged bushcraft, fur bearers, fur trapping, is trapping cruel, is trapping humane, trapping, trapping animals, trapping controversy, trapping wildlife, truth about trapping

How to Get Started Tracking Animals: 16 Tips & Resources

Posted on November 19, 2015 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comNovember 21, 2015
Reconnect with nature by reviving the ancient art of wildlife tracking. These tips & resources teach how to get started tracking animals by breaking a daunting task into manageable chunks & set you on the road to expertise. Includes reviews of my favorite tracking books.

These tips & resources will help you get started tracking wildlife by breaking a daunting task into manageable chunks & set you on the road to expertise. Includes reviews of my favorite tracking books.

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Posted in Mammals, Wildlife | Tagged animal tracking resources, animal tracking tips, getting started wildlife tracking, how to get started tracking animals, how to track wildlife, learn to track animals, mammal tracking, wildlife tracking basics

Poultry Predator Identification: A Guide to Tracks and Sign

Posted on March 15, 2015 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comJuly 11, 2016
Poultry Predator Identification

Here’s a guide to poultry predator identification that covers tracks, scat, feeding sign, and other behavior, to help you identify threats to your chickens and other livestock. This is largely based on my own experience tracking and camera trapping, and designed to educate and inspire responsible livestock protection that will allow coexistence with predators.

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Posted in Backyard Farming, Chickens, Mammals, Wildlife | Tagged bobcat tracks, chicken coop predators, chicken predators, coyote tracks, fisher cat tracks, fox tracks, Guide to predator tracks, how to identify predators, how to track predators, livestock predation identification, livestock predators, mink tracks, opossum tracks, poultry predators, predator scat, predator scat identification, predator sign, predator tracks, raccoon tracks, what killed my chicken

Quabbin Wildlife Tracking Program 2/21/2015

Posted on February 24, 2015 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comFebruary 24, 2015
Quabbin Wildlife Tracking Program

Coyote coitus, deer beds, ruffed grouse snow roost, and weasel tracks were among our findings in our February 21, 2015 Quabbin wildlife tracking program.

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Posted in Tracking Program Reports | Tagged animal tracking, mammal tracking, massachusetts tracking programs, Quabbin Reservoir, ruffed grouse, snow roost, wildlife tracking

Porcupine Tracks and Sign

Posted on January 24, 2015 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comJanuary 24, 2015
Porcupine tracks and sign

Learn to recognize porcupine tracks and sign, including a variety of feeding signs, dens, and scat of this large, prickly,herbivorous rodent.

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Posted in Mammals, Wildlife | Tagged animal tracking, how to find porcupines, how to track porcupines, nature, nip twigs, nipped twigs, porcupine, porcupine dens, porcupine diet, porcupine scat, porcupine sign, porcupine tracks, tracking, what do porcupines eat, wildlife, wildlife tracking

Quabbin Wildlife Tracking Program 1/10/2015

Posted on January 13, 2015 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comFebruary 24, 2015
Quabbin wildlife tracking programs

Moose, deer, bobcat, porcupine, and grouse were among the animals we found evidence of, in our January 10, 2015 Quabbin wildlife tracking program.

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Posted in Tracking Program Reports | Tagged animal tracking, learn to track animals, mammal tracking, mouse tracks, porcupine tracks, Quabbin Reservoir, quabbin tracking, Quabbin tracking programs, tracking at quabbin, wildlife tracking

Hunting Ethically with Mind, Body and Soul: An Interview

Posted on January 8, 2015 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comJanuary 9, 2015
Hunting Ethically

Hunting ethically for food, for wildlife management, and to understand one’s place within Nature: A hunter explains. Read his views, and weigh in on the discussion!

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Posted in Mammals, Sustainability, Wild Edibles, Wildlife | Tagged ethical hunting, ethics of hunting, fishing, hunting, hunting and animal welfare, hunting as a widllife management tool, hunting ethically, hunting vs. farming, interview of a hunter, is hunting cruel, is hunting humane, is hunting sustainable, is wild game healthier

Tracking Red Fox in Winter

Posted on December 20, 2014 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comDecember 21, 2014
Tracking Red Fox in Winter

Learning to interpret tracks and sign of wildlife helps you appreciate them as sentient being struggling for survival, a first step in learning to coexist with them. Tracking Red Fox in Winter is an introduction to red fox tracks, sign, behavior, winter adaptations, and conflicts with humans.

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Posted in Mammals, Wildlife | Tagged coexisting with predators, coexisting with wildlife, fox scat, fox scent marking, how to tell the difference between fox and dog tracks, how to tell the difference between red fox and coyote tracks, how to track red fox, is the red fox an invasive species, is the red fox native to North America, predator tracking, red fox and rabies, red fox tracks, red fox tracks and sign, wildlife tracking, winter adaptations of red fox, winter tracking

10 Myths About Wild Predators

Posted on October 27, 2014 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comNovember 3, 2014
10 Myths About Wild Predators (with photos from my trail cam)

It’s time to debunk these myths about wild predators, and learn to live with them. Appreciate their beauty with some of my best trail cam photos.

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Posted in Backyard Farming, Mammals, Wildlife | Tagged camera trap, coexisting with predators, coexisting with wildlife, game camera, lethal predator control, misconceptions about predators, misconceptions about wildlife, myths about predators, myths about wildlife, nonlethal predator control, trail camera, wildlife camera

10 Shrubs for a Wildlife-Friendly, Edible Landscape

Posted on October 17, 2014 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comNovember 23, 2014
10 Shrubs for a Wildlife-Friendly, Edible Landscape

Want to transform your backyard to a food producing garden that also attracts wildlife? Choosing from these 10 shrubs for a wildlife-friendly, edible landscape, would be a great start! Wildlife value and edible parts of each shrub are described.

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Posted in Backyard Farming, Gardening, Plants, Wild Edibles, Wildlife | Tagged edible backyard, edible landscape, gardening, gardening for wildlife, how to attract birds, how to attract pollinators, how to attract wildlife, how to create a wildlife garden, how to create a wildlife habitat, how to create an edible landscape, landscaping for widlife, landscaping with native shrubs, native plants, native shrubs, permaculture, wildlife garden, wildlife landscape, wildlife-friendly edible garden

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