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12-24-2015, 11:44 PM | #1 | ||
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December 25th, 2015: Wildlife Pictures
George Shiras III was born in 1859 in Allegheny, PA. An avid hunter in his youth, became a lawyer then a politician.
Then got into photography, especially wildlife. Ho hum, another rich dude with an expensive hobby. But talking to the Ojibwa tribe he learned about jacklighting. They would put a pan of fire in the bow of a canoe and wait for animals to come to the waters edge to investigate, then shoot them. Shiras put that together with his camera, and in the 1890s became the father of wildlife photography. Then he set up a system of wires and pieces of equipment on land to catch wildlife in the forest... the first trailcam. He was hooked, traded his rifle for traveling all over the country photographing wild life and scenery like Yellowstone. These were the days of bulky equipment and glass plate photography, no instamatic or smart phone shit. Quote:
Gil Grosvenor invited him to the National Geographic offices to see his pictures and publish almost all of them. Quote:
Here's two links where you can see more of his work and details of his story.
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12-25-2015, 11:35 AM | #2 |
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I have an inexpensive sneaky cam that I have put all over my little ranch most nights for several years.
It is always fun to see what I have "caught," especially on busy nights. Coyotes, raccoons, foxes, rabbits, possums, domestic cats and dogs, birds, skunks, cows (my own), horses (neighbors'), neighbors (!) and the occasional alien. Hoping for a ring-tail cat and porcupine. Merry Christmas |
12-25-2015, 02:36 PM | #3 |
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Don't know if you know, but, Mr. Shiras III has a species of moose named after him.
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12-25-2015, 04:38 PM | #4 | |
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Nope, didn't know that. Thank you. Shiras did so much I couldn't begin to get into it, so I just posted the two of the many links. Judging by the passion he threw at so many things, I think I'd want him for my lawyer. If I needed a lawyer. But I don't. I didn't do anything. You Can't Prove Nothin'!
Shiras Moose - Alces alces shiras Quote:
What a handsome beast it is, too. More compact and not as gangly as the bigger boys. It must be mating season as he's all cleaned up, rack polished, hair brushed, lookin' for love... I can almost smell the AXE.
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12-26-2015, 07:27 AM | #5 |
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And in the tradition of many Cellar IotD posts...
There are all kinds of ways to cook a moose (although whole will require a LARGE barbecue pit...). Older animals make better stew and sausage meat, though oftentimes fat from other critters must be added to the sausage. Younger animals provide all the same cuts as beef . Many people find the taste of wild hoofed animals "gamy"; some like it and some don't. When the hunters I know are successful, buck neck is my favorite Christmas roast and I figured out how to mellow out the gamy taste--cover the roast before baking with a layer of autumn fruits and some of the sweeter veggies. Apples, pears, sweet onions...you season it with things it likes to eat! Slow-baking a slab of anything from the deer family on a bed of brown rice and baby carrots comes out excellently tasty, and if you're into soups and stews the rice and carrots from under such a roast go very well in broth. Sadly, the one neighbor of mine who does like to hunt got his rights temporarily revoked because someone gave him the wrong coordinates for using his disabled-hunter tags. All the meat and racks from deer he thought he took legally were seized, though he will get his hunting rights back eventually since he didn't deliberately poach. And he does know I come equipped with a bloodthirsty temperament, an unusual gift for disassembling nature's warm-blooded favorites (other than my fellow man), and my own skinning knife. |
01-04-2016, 03:47 AM | #6 |
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Meh, they come apart the same way. Open them asshole to appetite, turn 'em to tip the guts out, slice off the best parts. 350 degrees for 25-90 minutes depending on thickness. Oh, and if they're not quite dead on the way to the block, just hold them by their bottom lip, so they don't flop so much.
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