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Didn't they start in prehistory by furnishing the dead guy with weapons, food and supplies that he would need in the next part of the journey? I've read that graves 100,000 years old show evidence of ritual funerals, and that the quantities of pollen in Neanderthal graves suggest they used a lot flowers at their funerals.

We have lots of herons here and I've seen one eat a bass that size a couple times. But they don't seem to reduce the numbers of bass over all. My thoughts are that the herons feed only in shallow water and that only occasionally will trout or bass be in proximity to them, their necks are only so long. At RRSP a couple years ago I saw a crow kill a trout, at a riffle, and eat it, two days in a row, and have to assume that in a small stream like that the trout would be more vulnerable. It's why wild trout are so shadow shy and movement shy.

Or someone who hates fish. Their actions did nothing to MDC, just harmed the fish.

That's how it works for real anglers. " Any species taken into actual possession, unless released unharmed immediately after being caught, shall continue to be included in the daily limit of the taker for the day when taken"

current USGS page shows no data for the 18th when the anomaly occurred with level of 709.32 https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/USGS-06922440/#dataTypeId=continuous-00065-0&period=P7D&showFieldMeasurements=true

Has to be a screwed up gage, because the USGS shows about 18' of instantaneous drop yesterday for a few hours and then jumping back up 47' in another instant. It's also always noted on those reports that the information is 'provisional'.

I did have to look that up, I knew what it was and how they can be irritating, but could not recall the nomenclature. I did spend a lot of time reading dictionaries and encyclopedias as a child and remember odd words or bits of information at times, but it's been a couple of decades since my total recall slipped away. I have always thought that those benzenes were likely more of a cancer hazard when smoking tobacco than the nicotine was, but that was just an uneducated guess, and as far as I know hasn't been studied. I've thought for a long time that my brother's lung cancer and that of his wife, was caused by the smoky old wood stoves that they always kept.

Leaves don't burn completely and the smoke carries a lot of tiny solid particles, so that one good whiff could be enough to trigger an asthma attack or worse. They also, like burning any organic matter give off lots of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. It's also possible that poison ivy or other toxic leaves were collected there and of course the leaves had some mold on them and that is what I suspect you inhaled from the symptoms described. Although raccoons are pretty nasty critters, I'm not sure they are any more of a problem than the leaves themselves. I don't know if 'coons mess in their dens or not, but I have observed den trees having six or more of them in the same hollow, and I have seen in the snow that over a four week time span that in one den only a single coon came out after the third week, went about three feet from the tree, pooped and returned to the tree; so they must either pee in the dens or be capable of holding it in for weeks. They will poop in the feed storage bin that they are eating out of. Anyone who has ever mucked out a barn knows that horses, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens ect. all poop where they sleep and I think the "most critters don't poop where they sleep" wisdom is a Disneyism to support anthropomorphism. I can't recall ever seeing a nest or den that wasn't nasty.

Most Americans would not eat meat if they ever spent a week in a kill plant and would not eat in a restaurant if they had ever seen the kitchens up close. I worked in a poultry plant for a few months mid '60s and over the years have remodeled several cafes and restaurants, my opinion, the kill plants are cleaner than the cafes, but as gross as both are , millions of people eat the stuff out them and few get sick as a result.

In the Ozarks, they are (or were) washed, then scalded and the scalding releases the skin so that it can be easily be peeled off and the nails removed. Once cleaned, the feet are boiled with the necks and then simmered until all meat is released from the bones. After meat and bones are separated, the broth can be used as very rich stock, very yellow too, or made into soup using the separated meat and whatever else you like in your chicken soup. I think there is more "chicken flavor" in a pair of feet than in two or three whole chickens without the feet. I had always assumed that the feet were used in commercially produced soups and stocks. I am surprised that they are now an export, I guess that means the "chicken flavor" broth, stock, and soups that we see in the supermarkets must be artificial.

That depends a lot on the individual agent. Some of the wildlife biologists would jump on it but the contact people for nuisance animal problems is usually the local law enforcement Agent.

Yes and no, animals not subject to that rule are migratory birds, white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, turkeys, black bears, mountain lions, and any endangered species. Also they don't seem to consider bees as livestock, or domestic animals; so you'd have to have the Agent's permission unless it attacks people or domestic animals. If the agent won't help you with trapping and removal, electric fence is about the only legal option. An empty hive with a bait of honey surrounded by electric fence might train the bear to leave hives alone, but my hogs could smell when the wire was hot and when it wasn't and I bet a bear can too, so the hives would have to all be fenced and the fence kept hot all the time. What a PIA. I'd rather trap the critter and be done with it, but an authorization from MDC is required, perhaps someone in the regional office or Jefferson City could override the local Agent. A large cubby baited with stale pastries, pies and such guarded by foot snares (special made for bear trapping) seems the most effective means of capture.

Need a foot snare anchored to a bucket sized tree. Or a culvert trap. I'd contact MDC, because I think it'll be back until you run out of bees.

There is a Facebook group that should have reports, as people post there every day, Grand Fishing Report

Reminds me of the air injected night crawlers of the 1970s. I bet it will catch fish anywhere that fish eat of the bottom. Did you try your erection system of jig hook and inverting bead with standard mop material? I've not used mops other than those found in the park, but they seem to float.