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Outdoors blog archive for Sept. 5, 2013

THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 2013

Velvet is peeling off the antlers of this whitetail buck photographed in Montana on Sept. 1, 2013. (Jaime Johnson)

Bucks are polishing up their act

WILDLIFE WATCHING -- It's time for this whitetail buck to peel off the velvet and get ready for action. Montana outdoor photographer Jaime Johnson documented this late-summer stage of antler development last weekend with this photo.

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Shooters vandalized this outhouse at Hog Canyon Lake boat launch managed by BLM. (George Barlow)

Destructive shooters leave their mark 

PUBLIC LANDS -- After reading yesterday's blog post regarding the frustration of Idaho Panhandle National Forests officals over destructive shooting activity near Hayden Creek, reader George Barlow emailed me the photo above. No, it's not from Iraq. It shows the outhouse at the BLM's Hog…

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Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.




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