Denny on August 25th, 2008

I have to be curious about this because of two recent game camera photos, can deer see infrared? This one gives every indication of seeing something.

Either deer can see infrared light or this camera was malfunctioning and using the incandescent flash. Since the bear attacked the other camera with the flash set for incandescent I [...]

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Denny on August 21st, 2008

Ginseng Digging Season Starts Sept. 1
Season runs through Nov. 30
From WV Division of Forestry
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Division of Forestry officials announced today that the ginseng digging season starts Monday, Sept. 1 and runs through Sunday, Nov. 30.
Only ginseng plants that are five years old or older may be dug. The age of the plant is [...]

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Denny on August 20th, 2008

My friend Mountainsaver and I went riding and camping in Martins Creek yesterday through today.
Martins Creek is in the head of Peachtree. I’ve been wanting to go there camping for a while to see if there was any ginseng growing there. We camped nearly in the head of the hollow at what used to be [...]

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Denny on August 17th, 2008

Unable to wait an entire week and with a beautiful Sunday to kill, I headed back into the mountains for the day. It’s beginning to look like the game cameras are going to provide me with more questions than answers. I did get one deer shot out of this batch.

The date and time on these [...]

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Denny on August 12th, 2008

I went for a ride today to check the game cameras. I was anxious to see if I had photographed anything.
The cameras themselves are about fifty feet apart. The first camera is positioned to look across the shelf. It is located at the outside edge and something would have to put a lot of effort [...]

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Denny on August 11th, 2008

No, I’m not out looking for ghosts. I did, however, purchase a couple of Ghost game scouting cameras. In the past 3 weeks I have seen five black bear. Four of those in one general area. I had been wanting to get some game cameras and with all the bear and bear sign I have [...]

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Denny on August 5th, 2008

I’ve gotten behind on my posting again because I upgraded my Wordpress blogs to version 2.6. Turns out 2.6 has a bug in the photo uploading portion of the blog software. FYI, if you have a Wordpress blog and you have upgraded to 2.6 and you are having a problem with adding photos this means [...]

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