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Originally Posted by Daniel B Sweet
I fondly remember the days sitting with my father in the woods of
Taghkanic, NY watching for Gray Squirrels and listening ti the Drum of Partridge. I haven't seen nor heard a Partridge in at least 25 years around here. Sure do miss them and those great days.
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Alas, Dan, I fear that there are many who might voice the same sentiment. A healthy forest is not always the one that shows up in calendar pictures.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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