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Simple Living Alaska – Beehive Update August 2019 | Keeping Honey Bees in Alaska

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I never seen those polystyrene bee hives before, but I can certainly understand the need for insuation in cold climates. I am sure they've been tested for styrene leaching out of the polystyrene, but still I have questions -- maybe not scientifically based. I know they're is a lot of concern on some quarters about styrene leaching into food, especially oily food. Plus how durable are they? Maybe I'm just old fashioned, luddite.

Parachuting beavers featured in ‘Fur For the Future,’ 1950s-era film

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In 1948, game warden and pilot Elmo Heter executed a plan years in the making to reintroduce beavers into the mountainous wilds of Idaho. His plan sounded simple, Idaho Fish & Wildlife professionals would work with skilled trappers to catch nuisance beavers from abundant areas adjacent to mankind, pack them into wooden crates, load them onto an airplane and, whilst tethered to a parachute, drop the sub-aquatic rodents into portions of the wilderness for reintroduction efforts. The crates would burst open on impact, freeing the furry engineers encased inside to roam the wilds of their new abode. "

In all, 76 beavers would complete the trip, with only one documented beaver fatality from the drop, which was due to a lashing failure allowing the beaver to exit the box in mid-air.

https://furbearerconservation.com/blog/2019/7/9/idahos-air-dropped-beavers-cage-trapped-muskrats-and-ear-tagged-marten

TA Outdoors – Camping in a Debris Shelter (Bushcraft)

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"Join me on a bushcraft camp overnight in a debris shelter with Dustin from Bushcraft Tools and Haze Outdoors. We camp in the woods in a natural debris shelter made from logs and cedar boughs. We fire up the lanterns and build a log bench bushcraft style with an axe and saw. At night I sleep on deer hide beds with a wool blanket. This is part 1 of a 3 day camping trip. Part 2 is up next week!"