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Deer Crew Diaries – Entry 24-6
[Comments in brackets are by Jeannine and Duane] ———————————————————————————- From the Northern Crew: Greetings from the North. Last week the northern crew caught 7 deer, including two adult females...
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Deer Crew Diaries – Entry 24-7
[Comments in brackets are by Jeannine and Duane] ———————————————————————————- From the Northern Crew: Greetings from the North. Last week the Susquehannock crew captured 9 deer (4 in the northern half...
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Deer Crew Diaries – Entry 24-8
[Comments in brackets are by Jeannine and Duane] ———————————————————————————- From the Northern Crew: Greetings from the North. We started our week with a flat tire. Luckily, we had two trucks since...
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A Bone to Chew
It’s my favorite hunting season and the only one I participate in. That’s right – it’s shed hunting season. While I disdain the attention antlers get while they are on the head of a deer, I thoroughly...
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Deer Crew Diaries – Entry 24-9
———————————————————————————- From the Northern Crew: Greetings from the North. First a Haiku: Spring is on the wayTraps are moving, deer don’t careAll our cards are down Things have certainly slowed...
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Lost and Maybe Found
Technology doesn’t always work as planned. There is not a person on the planet that hasn’t cursed their phone at some point. Sometimes it’s user error but sometimes it’s not. Buck 20429 is an example...
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Decades in the Making
In September 2014, we published our first blog post. Ah, the good old days when getting blog ideas was easy. Almost a decade later, we’re writing about osteophagia and counting squirrels. I’m not...
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Salacious Headlines
We have all stood in the grocery store checkout line and stared with curiosity, horror, and disbelief at the headlines strewn across the shelves. So-and-so’s love child, celeb drug secrets, global...
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Totality
Unless you have been living under a rock (or the moon), you are familiar with totality. On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse crossed North America. The path of totality started in Texas and...
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Labor and Delivery
Fawning season is fast approaching and babies of all shapes, sizes and persuasions (deer aren’t the only ones proliferating) will be everywhere before you know it. Reproduction is important to...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Neighborhoods are as unique and diverse as the people who live in them. Manhattan has over 20 neighborhoods – Tribeca, Chinatown, Nolita, SoHo, Bowery, East Village, Midtown, Harlem, and Upper West...
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Alone Time
White-tailed deer are social creatures. It is rare to see just one deer. And even if you can only spot one deer, there are probably more you just can’t see. The basic social unit is a doe, her...
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Daniel and Deer
This is Daniel. He has been my neighbor for 9 years. I’ve known his family since I moved to Pennsylvania 20 years ago. Daniel may look like any other Golden Retriever and beloved member of the...
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Closed for Renovation!
Renovations are exciting. Sure they can be a headache but when complete, it’s like a whole new world. Many stores temporarily closed for a refresh and repair – a local Starbucks, your favorite...
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Fat Does and Big Antlers
I am here again to sing the praises of the best kind of deer – those WITHOUT antlers. I have never been shy about my love for does. They are the smartest, prettiest, most important segment of the deer...
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Pennsylvania’s Wild Kingdom
When I was a kid, I was a voracious consumer of facts. We had the Encyclopedia Americana and all the associated yearbooks and volumes that were available. I read each volume from cover to cover. I...
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Happy Anniversary!
The Deer Forest blog is celebrating a big milestone – 10 years! I can hardly believe it myself. I’ve been writing for the blog for half of my career with the Game Commission. Duane has many...
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Did you pass our quiz?
We had a lot of fun with our 10th Anniversary Quiz. And now we are here to tell you how well you did…collectively. We don’t want to embarrass anyone 😉 1. Where do fawns have higher survival?...
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FRAPs
We are lovers of dogs around here. They bring much joy and sometimes frustration to our lives. Duane might have the softest dogs in the state given how many baths they receive from the incessant need...
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Miles and Miles to Go
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. –Robert Frost from the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”...
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