#Kentucky elk hunting

[socially-awkward-skeleton]

The ripe age of six years old, and she was taken out to the woods of Kentucky to hunt. Mid-October, the air was just as crisp as it was now and the sky overcast. Her father put a Winchester Model 70 rifle in her hands and expected her to bag an elk. She’d been to the range before, but tagging an animal -- something living and breathing, something that moved -- was an entirely different matter. Her hands shook, sweat dripped from her brow and stung her eyes, but she didn’t dare blink and miss her shot. So focused on not failing, on getting it right, that she became entirely attuned to the forest and every sound that traveled through the carpet of fallen leaves. Her determination worked in opposition to her natural skill, second guessing her every move. The push and pull inside her head and the empty hole where her heart was supposed to be. 

The wind bit at her hands, chewing at the knuckles, snapping its jaws through the fat of the chubby flesh and into the bone. The gun was heavy, much heavier than the pistol she normally had to hold. She whispered to herself to remember the kickback that would affect her final aim, the piece of advice her father had drilled into her head for weeks before they even entered the woods, and he repeated throughout the ride in the truck. His friends would be somewhere out in those trees, trying to hunt for themselves, their own conquests to make. Felling the beast wasn’t just for her, it was for him as well. 

Twigs snapped and branches rustled, shaking yet more leaves free like dandruff as massive antlers cleared the foliage with the same brute force as a machete. Kit’s breath hitched in her throat at the haunting bugle that was called forth, vapor escaping the giant hooved creatures maw as it seemed to scream like a banshee – as if it knew death was waiting for it just around the corner. The high pitch squeal grated on her ears, and sent a shiver down her spine. Her eyes squeezed shut and her jaw clenched tight as her finger curled against the cold sting of the trigger. 

Tipping its head in her direction, glassy brown eyes stared out from the blank expression of a prey animal who had only come through these parts to graze, merely completing its portion of the natural cycle of things. It called again and it sounded more like a high pitched laugh, making a mockery of her, calling her out on her bluff. She was no hunter, not yet. She only thought herself a killer because she was told that was her place in the food chain, she hadn’t proved it.

Her lip curled as she lined up her shot in the scope, the hackles of her back rising as the blood rushed in her ears, and with a quick squeeze of the trigger the gun blew back against her shoulder like a projectile, instantly bruising the soft flesh below her coat. 

Dropping to the ground, she hissed as she rubbed at the joint, only to hear that mocking laugh once more. Pale eyes shot up to see the elk still standing, unharmed. 

She’d missed. 

Her bruised ego ached more than the throbbing pain of her shoulder as she turned her attention to her father. He averted his gaze as she looked at him. Snatching the gun from the ground, he wasted no time in taking apart the rifle she’d dropped, putting the pieces carefully back into the case. He offered no words of encouragement for the next shot, no words of how to improve. There were no second chances with James. 

She’d failed him.

The joy and pain i get out of writing Kit's flashbacks of her terrible childhood, facing her old traumas and coming to realize just how messed up her life has been is honestly a little cathartic.

This time nature itself is mocking her for failing to be the violent killer her father says she is while hunting. Shout out to elks for having one of the most haunting animal calls out there, you're really helping with the atmosphere

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Kentucky elk hunting

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A Hiking Trail is available at Tailwater Recreation Area.Ĭampground, Boat Launch and Horse Riding TrailsĪt Buckhorn Lake State Park is the place to enjoy fishing, boating and water sports recreation! The marina has 95 open slips, two launching ramps, and rental pontoons and fishing boats, available for your time on the water. Buckhorn Lake provides visitors many opportunities to see and experience native wildlife of southeastern Kentucky.Īn Interpretative Hiking Trail is available at Buckhorn Lake Dam site. Non-commercial trapping, archery and black powder hunting are gaining popularity at the lake. There is a large supply of rabbit, squirrel, turkey and deer to be hunted on the project.

Updated KFW Public Hunting Areas *current as of Sept.Hunting is permitted in the Buckhorn Lake Wildlife Management Area as well as outside recreation and operations areas on the project.

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Map updatesĪlready own a Hunt Chip? Download the chip update wizard to install the latest maps. Hunt Chip for GPS works on range of handheld and navigational Garmin GPS Units. Turn your smartphone or tablet into a powerful field-use GPS with no cell service required.

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Purchase of the Hunt Chip also includes the use of the Hunt App for 1 year, along with free Hunt Chip Updates. Hunters also cannot use buckshot for elk. You can also use a breechloading shotgun, but it must be 20 gauge or larger. State regulations require rifles and handguns to be. This is my personal hunting ranch I spend too much time enjoying planting food plots. KFW public hunting areas *current as of Sept. About the only other thing to know about Kentucky elk hunting is the legal weapons.Public lands-federal, state, county, local and non-profit.Chip Overviewįind new access and view hunting zones, wildlife management areas, private property and more over 24K topo basemaps for the most accurate map available on Garmin GPS. This new map data will automatically be loaded to your Hunt App without you having to do anything. Kentucky is approximately 95 privately owned, and much of the public land available to elk hunting receives significant hunting pressure. This zone is divided into 7 Elk Hunting Units (EHU), 6 of which are open for elk hunting. Map updatesĪs land ownership, hunting areas, and other map data change we update the map data on our servers. The Kentucky Elk Management Zone counties are outlined on the map below in yellow.

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Hunt App works on iOS and Android mobile phones as well as provides access to our mapping solutions from your computer. OnX Hunt prides itself in offering a multi-platform mapping system. Purchase of the Hunt Membership also includes updates for the Hunt GPS Chip. Fishing access locations and boat ramps.Summit County - Hunt the largest elk heard in the world and trophy mule deer in the White River National Forest and the majestic Eagles Nest Wilderness. Elk were reintroduced in the southern part of the state in the 1990s after an absence of 150 years, and the herd is thriving. Steamboat Lake - Hunting, fishing, horseback riding, pack trips, and more in the Routt National Forest and stunning Mount Zirkel Wilderness. The population is currently estimated to be about 11,000 animals, with hunters harvesting 3-7 percent of the population annually. Kentucky boasts the largest elk herd east of the Mississippi River. Contact the department toll-free at 1-80, weekdays, 8 a.m. In 2001, Kentucky established its first hunting season for elk. According to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Bluegrass state saw 46,000 people submit more than 95,000 applications in 2020 alone. Water-rivers, creeks and lakes with flow direction Elk quota hunt applications can be purchased via Kentucky Fish and Wildlife’s website at or at any vendor that sells Kentucky Fish and Wildlife licenses. The Kentucky elk herd may be the largest East of the Mississippi, but the number of permits available each year varies between 500 to 800 depending on how the herd is doing that year.Point of interests-geographic and recreational.Roads, trails and trailhead names and numbers.Government lands-federal, state, county, local and non-profit.Private landowner names, boundaries, and tax address.Search by landowner, places or coordinates.Hunting zones, units, districts and areas.View trails, roads and accesses to narrow the hunt and always know where you stand. See invisible property lines and seek permission with detailed private and government property boundaries and ownership names. Increase success as you layer hunting zones, wildlife management areas, private property and more over aerial imagery, and topographic basemaps, for the most accurate map on mobile device and desktop.

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The United States Ranked by how deadly their official animal is

1) Washington, Orca

Very scary. Can’t see its eyes. Been told its very deadly by my sister. 

2) Georgia, Right Whale

This is one big boy. Very deadly. 

3) Connecticut, Sperm Whale

Whales take up a lot of this because whales are very deadly, sperm whale is no exception. 

4) Hawaii, Humpback Whale

A clown fish hath survived. But, it is a whale. Still deadly. 

5) Montana, Grizzly Bear

Our first non-whale contender. Could kill on both land and water, and is smart enough to trick a dumb whale into fighting on land.

6) California, Gray Whale

Big whale boi. Less deadly apparently. I have no facts other than I haven’t heard as much about it, and speculate that it is therefore less deadly. Also, looks like a grizzly bear could kill it

7) Florida, Alligator

Can fight on land and water, also had many teeth. But, smaller than a whale. 

8) Alabama, Louisiana, New Mexico, and West Virginia, Black Bear

Sometimes multiple states choose the same animal, and the black bear is a good choice. The black bear is a sweeter version of the grizzly bear. One time I was peeing in the woods and saw one. We made eye contact and they just left. Couldn’t happen with a grizzly. But, still very deadly. 

9) Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Bison

Chunky mule with horns. Can run real fast. Spooky.

10) South Dakota, Coyote

Often underestimated for its stealth, this is the spy version of a wolf, making it an unexpected threat. Stole a sandwich once from my dad 

11) Texas, Longhorn

Bigger horns than a bison, and meatier than a moose or elk. Could crush a small animal by laying on it. 

12) Alaska, Maine, Moose

While big and intimidating, its long legs make it awkward. I think it could get tangled up real easy. 

13) Utah, Elk

Big antlers, but lighter weight. This means they can run faster, but have less power in them. 

14) Nevada, Ram

Nerfed sheep. Can run at you real fast. Nice sweater. Reminds me of skyrim. 

15) Mississippi, Red Fox

Big ears, nice colors. Stealthy and fast. Big teeth.

16) Delaware, Gray Fox

Same as red fox, but doesn’t have the psychological attack of being a cool color.

17) Virginia, Foxhound

An absolute lovely addition to this post. Very good. Hunts and snuggles. 

18) New York, Oregon, Beaver

Hohoho now THIS is what I’m talking about!! Look at those teeth! Raccoon but with webbed feet and the coolest tail. This bitch will fuck you up and then use your bones to make a damn. Looks like peter pettigrew in this pic. 

19) Missouri, Mule

Weird. Has human teeth. Short horse, but has more moxie.  

20) Tennessee, Raccoon

Sneaky little guy. Human hands. Mask. Gives birth in trash cans. All around good time. 

21) Idaho, Kentucky, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, Horses

Do I think a raccoon can kill a horse? Yes. Simply put, the horse has become too speed driven and not strength driven. A raccoon can pop its eyeballs out and bite it a bunch. What can a horse do? Stomp? The raccoon would never let that happen. 

22) Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Deer

Hang out around roads. I don’t think they can kill things

23) Arizona, Ring-Tailed Cat

Who the fuck is this guy? Looks suspiciously not like a cat, but ok. Tiny sharp teeth and cool tail. 

24) Maryland, Calico Cat

Now this is a cat. Knocks over glasses, brings in dead mice, the whole nine yards. 

25) North Carolina, Squirrel

Beady little eyes. Sharp nails. But very small. The final of the truly deadly animals. 

26) Colorado, Sheep

Sweet old sheep. Little lambs. Lovely. Not deadly, but doesn’t have to be. Their smile says it all. 

27) Minnesota, Loon

The loon takes the cake for “animal i forgot existed” for a hot minute. Thought it was a crane when I read it. Still, a solid duck. 

28) Indiana, Cardinal

Big beak. Angry.

29) Wisconsin, Robin

Little guy. Looks like snow white would sing with him

29) Iowa, Goldfinch

This fuckin guy. Absolute unit, but weighs .01 kg and .005 lb. 

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New blog post on Kentucky Elk draw. https://thebluegrasstraveler.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/kentucky-elk-draw/ #elk, #elkhunting, #kentucky, #kentuckyelkhunt, #kyafield, #hunting, #deerhunting, #outdooradventures, #crossbowhunting, #bowhunting,#huntingforfood (at Kentucky)

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Kentucky 2020 Fall Shotgun Turkey Season Opens Oct 24

Posted by TBC Press on 10/09/20 The Kentucky 2020 Fall turkey hunting season is underway with Archery through Jan 18, 2021. Crossbow is open through Oct 18 and reopens again Nov. 14 - Dec. 31, 2020. Shotgun season opens Oct. 24-30 and reopens Dec. 5-11, 2020. The process and requirements for recording, checking and tagging harvested turkeys are the same as for deer and elk. All turkeys must be telechecked . Hunters must call 1-800-245-4263 or complete the online check-in process through My Profile. It is illegal to hunt turkeys over bait... READ MORE

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Day 9 - May 31

Woke up quick, at about noon, just thought I had to be in the woods soon. We made it a late night by the fire with the mountain stream rushing by with friends, dogs, music and malted hops. It wasn’t noon but by 8am we had coffee brewing and the makings of a great day ahead. Kids all woke up hungry so breakfast was a priority. After we cleaned up breakfast, we made our plans to find a group of three lakes in the Cloud Peak Wildernss Area is the Bighorn National Forest. We would drive everyone in one truck to the trailhead about 4 miles away. The final two miles are a dirt two-track.

We left camp at 11am for Cloud Peak Wildnerness Area. This is Federal Land managed by the US Forestry Service under the United States Department of Agriculture. This is land that you and I own as US Citizens and have rights to access it as we please. Camp, fish, hunt, hike, swim, shoot...options are endless just be sure to leave no footprint behind you (pack out what you pack in, including TP). Picture this...187,000 acres covering 27 square miles. Our place in Kentucky is 50 acres and sometimes that feels like a lot, but this is 3,740 times bigger! It took some figuring out due to unmarked spurs and two-track trails but we made it to the trailhead. Arriving at the trailhead you have to sign in and register your visit. How many in your party, party leader, anticipated days in the wilderness area, sign and date. This is in case you don’t come back and they need to send a search party out to rescue you. Bottom line, this is not your hike on the Wisconsin Ice Age Trail. Black bear, moose, elk, mule deer, mountain lion all call this area home.

On our way in to the trail system we saw five moose right off the bat. I mean how cool is that! Cool yes, but also making everyone aware that this is a wild place. No one is here to help you, you need to be self sufficient to a certain degree.

The hike was great, 6.5 miles round trip, up and down mountains, through creeks, around ponds. There are over 100 lakes in the Cloud Peak Wilderness area. Our goal was to get to you three of them. Sherd lake, Ringbone lake and Willow Lake. We made Sherd and Ringbone. At just over 3 miles, we had 2 more miles to Willow. As a group we were running out of water and snacks (and stamina), so we bailed on Willow.

Arriving at Sherd lake was spectacular. Cloud Peak towered in the background, snow capped and stunning. We had our snacks, water and then I decided I would carry on our cold water swimming tradition. It started back in 2018 when we swam in Jenny lake in the Teton National Forest and the Snake River. Snake was 44 degrees and Jenny was 37 degrees. National Forest logs later showed that Sherd Lake was approximately 39 degrees. It felt barely 39, but great to see everyone carry on the tradition. The wives now want to make shirts that carry a phrase they use a lot with my friend and I, “is this a good idea?” I can’t say that they are all good ideas, but they all do create great memories for our family.

We finished up our hike with no injuries, no wild animal threats and some tired legs. When we stopped at Ringbone lake we were slightly over 9,200’ in elevation, I think Shanna’s watch said 9,247. If we only made it 4,000’ more, we could have summited Cloud Peak! Headed back to camp, packed up and headed for Montana!

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AGROFORESTRY!

remember when i tried discussing hunting as a sustainable source of meat because forests that support wild game are also incredibly productive sources of a TON of other foods, and everyone was like "but deer LESS than cow? :("

Anyway.

I take issue with the assessment of the American Chestnut situation—we were right to be cautious about hybridization with another species.

But now, the future for the American Chestnut looks pretty good. One group is creating hybrid American Chestnuts that contain the genes for blight resistance but are otherwise 98% American Chestnut through backcrossing. There are also surviving American Chestnut trees that are being protected and propagated in hopes of cultivating a resistant tree. A third group is taking the genetic engineering route and inserting genes from wheat into the American Chestnut genome.

We will very likely live to see the chestnut forests return.

But even without chestnuts, forests are sources of incredible amounts of food.

The Native Americans of the Appalachian region used acorns as a source of food. Boil the bitter tannins out, and the insides can be made into flour that (I am told) makes a delicious bread. The overstory of the lower Appalachian forests is a combination of oak and hickory trees. Hickory nuts are also edible. As are walnuts and pecans, also native species.

Acorns are wildly plentiful in a mature forest with an overstory that is a large percentage oak. You could probably fill a 5 gallon bucket in an hour or two.

In the same space, you can grow blackberries and pawpaws. You can gather edible mushrooms, and holy shit do forests produce mushrooms.

And guess what? Streams and rivers surrounded by forested "buffer zones" are cooler and less polluted, allowing fish, freshwater mussels, and crawdads to flourish. You can eat ALL of that stuff.

There's a hell of a lot more meat to be had in a forest than just deer. Appalachian folk eat possum, groundhog, turtle, and rattlesnake. Elk reintroduction in Eastern Kentucky is going great, so someday that will be an option. The book i'm reading right now (Where There are Mountains by Donald Edward Davis) says that bear was a major source of meat for the Cherokee people.

The solutions to unfucking our food systems are not complex technological problems. Fact is, the US agricultural system is GROTESQUELY inefficient and rapacious land mismanagement and intentional environmental destruction resulting from colonialism has nearly obliterated most of what could be productive food forests.

This is exactly why "aggressively urbanize the population and rewild the unused space" is pure bullshit. We are animals. We are part of the ecosystem. We don't have cooties that make everything we touch corrupt; our system was built directly on a genocidal catastrophe and the aggressive domination of chemical companies and agricultural industries that are easier to subsidize to hell and back than to adapt. There's nothing inevitable about the present clusterfuck.

What we're doing is like hammering nails into your kneecaps and trying to run a marathon, and it's dumb to bitch and moan about how you were always innately predisposed to be unable to run marathons. The current system just sucks. Fix it.

Grain and large-scale mechanized agriculture have their place in food systems, but they’re far from the only way to grow food. Feeding the world in a sustainable manner means diversifying beyond today’s food system, which is built on a few regional breadbaskets such as the Black Sea, the North American grain belt, and Brazil’s soy-producing states. A truly efficient food system would look quite different.

Agroforestry—or using orchards, groves, and managed forests to grow food—is a viable option for large-scale food production. Today, most people tend to consider trees a source of fruit and timber instead of staples such as starch, oil, and protein. But around the world, people have used oak, breadfruit, plantains, mesquite, oil palms, and other high-yielding trees for staple calories for millenniums.

Cherokee, Catawba, and other Indigenous farmers in Appalachia combined maize, squash, and bean farming with chestnut forestry. Each chestnut tree dropped 50 to 100 pounds of starchy nuts per year, and there were 3 billion to 4 billion of these trees before a fungal disease drove them to near extinction in the 20th century. Chestnut forests yielded around 3 trillion to 4 trillion calories per year, or enough to provide the carbohydrate needs for today’s U.S. population about twice over. By comparison, the U.S. corn industry grows about 6 trillion calories per year. What’s more, chestnut trees mostly grew in Appalachia: hilly, thin terrain that industrial agriculture considers “unfarmable.” Indigenous communities managed these enormously productive forests with little labor and no fertilizer industry.

Despite the blow that the de facto extinction of chestnut trees dealt to the Appalachian economy in the early 20th century, little effort has been spent on bringing these trees back. Had we started crossbreeding American chestnuts with blight-resistant Asian chestnuts when the blight began, we would have chestnut forests today. But we didn’t. In an echo of how food dependency works in international affairs, failure to invest in chestnut forests has kept Appalachia hungry, dependent on food imports, and locked into coal mining to pay for them.

Properly tended fisheries, another example of local food systems, are also powerful. Many nations dependent on food imports, such as Somalia, Yemen, Lebanon, and Algeria, have coastal fisheries—but not ones that play a major role in national food security. This is because of centuries of pollution and unmanaged fishing, including industrial-scale poaching by international fleets. These nations have few resources to enforce fishing quotas. They have even fewer resources to invest in hatcheries, cleaning up pollution, and other proactive measures to rebuild fisheries.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Aquaculture can be a powerful food security tool for arid coastal nations. For instance, managed seaweed stands can provide food or industrial feedstocks similar to sugarcane and maize now. And rather than pollute watersheds as land crops can do, seaweed removes nutrients and oxygenates the water—providing for human needs, rehabilitating the environment, and strengthening fisheries at the same time. In fact, seaweed and seagrasses can remove enough carbon dioxide from seawater to counteract acidification in their area, allowing corals and shellfish to thrive. Oysters, mussels, and other filter-feeding shellfish were once cheap staples: abundant, non-polluting protein. With proper investment and stewardship, they could be again.

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Kentucky Elk Hunting 101: How to Bag a Bull in the Bluegrass State

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Dan Boone's Elbow Room

Dan Boone’s Elbow Room

“Elbow Room“- Currently at the West End Gallery Alone he trod the shadowed trails; But he was lord of a thousand vales As he roved Kentucky, far and near, Hunting the buffalo, elk, and deer. What joy to see, what joy to win So fair a land for his kith and kin, Of streams unstained and woods unhewn! ” Elbow room! ” laughed Daniel Boone. –Arthur Guiterman, Daniel Boone “Elbow room!” cried Daniel…

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The Land Between the Lakes : Image of the Day

For more than a hundred years, the fertile and forested patch between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers was referred to as the “land between the rivers.” In the 1960s, it became the “land between the lakes.”

In an attempt to control flooding and to generate electricity in rural Kentucky and Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) built Kentucky Dam, thereby impounding the Tennessee River and creating Kentucky Lake in 1944. It became the largest manmade lake east of the Mississippi River.

Two decades later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blocked the flow of the nearby Cumberland River as well. With the completion of Barkley Dam in 1966, the waters of the Cumberland piled up into Lake Barkley. In the process of creating the two lakes, residents of several small towns along and between the rivers were moved, and parts of some towns were permanently flooded. A few local roads and railways had to be re-routed.

Engineers also dug out Barkley Canal in order to bring the two rivers and lakes to the same water level. This allowed ships and barges to more easily move goods (without locks) from the Cumberland and Tennessee river valleys toward the mighty Mississippi River. By the time they were done, the TVA and Army Corps had created one of the largest inland peninsulas in the United States.

In the years after the lakes were created, the new peninsula was slowly converted into a recreation area for hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, and camping. Now managed by the U.S. Forest Service, the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area includes one of the largest freshwater recreation complexes in the United States. The parkland and lakes attract roughly two million visitors per year. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired this natural-color image of the region on October 7, 2016.

Near Golden Pond, some forests have been cleared and re-seeded to return the land to what it likely looked in the 19th century. That grassland prairie also has been settled with elk and bison that once roamed the region. Recreational facilities also include a planetarium and a woodlands nature station. At the southern end of Land Between the Lakes, near the town of Dover, a re-creation of an 1850s homestead includes rare breeds of livestock and plants from that era.

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In Game:

The Frontier was a location generated by the Animus, representing the areas in the North American countryside visited by Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton.

During the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War, the countryside of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey was gradually being settled by colonial hunters and traders as the fur pelts of American animals were in high demand in England and France.

The Frontier was split into twelve hunting grounds, each containing four different types of wildlife.

Black Creek contained hares, beavers, elk, and bobcats. It contained Fort Duquesne in Pennsylvania, and the Grand Temple in Turin, New York.

Concord included hares, raccoon, beavers, and deer. A trading post was located on the western edge of town, on the road leading to Valley Forge.

John's Town in New York included hares, foxes, elk, and bears. It was the site of William Johnson's homestead, Johnson Hall, and contained the route to the Davenport Homestead in Massachusetts.

The Kanièn:keh Nation Territory, or "Mohawk Valley", was the location of Kanatahséton. Game included hares, foxes, deer, and cougars.

The other territories included the Diamond Basin, Great Piece Hills, Lexington,  Monmouth, Packanack, Scotch Plains, Troy's Wood, and Valley Forge.

In Real Life:

The ���Frontier” is defined as “a region at the edge of a settled area”. The “American Frontier,” began with the first days of European settlement on the Atlantic coast and the eastern rivers. From the start, the “Frontier” was most often categorized as the western edge of European settlement.

In the colonial era, before 1776, the west was of high priority for settlers and politicians. The American frontier began when Jamestown, Virginia was settled by the English in 1607. In the earliest days of European settlement of the Atlantic coast, down to about 1680, the frontier was essentially any part of the interior of the continent beyond the fringe of existing settlements along the Atlantic coast.

English, French, Spanish and Dutch patterns of expansion and settlement were quite different. Only a few thousand French migrated to Canada; these habitants settled in villages along the St. Lawrence River, building communities that remained stable for long stretches; they did not simply jump west the way the British did. Although French fur traders ranged widely through the Great Lakes and mid-west region they seldom settled down. French settlement was limited to a few very small villages such as Kaskaskia, Illinois as well as a larger settlement around New Orleans. Likewise, the Dutch set up fur trading posts in the Hudson River valley, followed by large grants of land to rich landowning patroons who brought in tenant farmers who created compact, permanent villages. They created a dense rural settlement in upstate New York, but they did not push westward.

Areas in the north that were in the frontier stage by 1700 generally had poor transportation facilities, so the opportunity for commercial agriculture was low. In the South, frontier areas that lacked transportation, such as the Appalachian Mountain region, remained based on subsistence farming and resembled the egalitarianism of their northern counterparts, although they had a larger upper-class of slaveowners. North Carolina was representative. However frontier areas of 1700 that had good river connections were increasingly transformed into plantation agriculture. Rich men came in, bought up the good land, and worked it with slaves. The area was no longer "frontier". It had a stratified society comprising a powerful upper-class white landowning gentry, a small middle-class, a fairly large group of landless or tenant white farmers, and a growing slave population at the bottom of the social pyramid. Unlike the North, where small towns and even cities were common, the South was overwhelmingly rural.

Most of the frontiers experienced Native wars, The French and Indian Wars were imperial wars between Britain and France, with the French making up for their small colonial population base by enlisting Native American war parties as allies. The series of large wars spilling over from European wars ended in a complete victory for the British in the worldwide Seven Years' War. In the peace treaty of 1763, France lost practically everything, as the lands west of the Mississippi river, in addition to Florida and New Orleans, went to Spain. Otherwise lands east of the Mississippi River and what is now Canada went to Britain.

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Regardless of wars Americans were moving across the Appalachians into western Pennsylvania, what is now West Virginia, and areas of the Ohio Country, Kentucky and Tennessee. In the southern settlements via the Cumberland Gap, their most famous leader was Daniel Boone, but to the north, closer to dense colonial populations and Europe immigrants, a certain Virginia gentleman, George Washington promoted settlements in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania to lands he'd acquired title to both as a surveyor and as someone who'd distinguished himself as an officer in Virginia's colonial militia. West of the mountains, settlements were curtailed abruptly by a decree by the British crown in 1763, which also deconflicted many of the conflicting claims made by various colonies. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768) was an attempt by colonials to re-open in part, trans-Appalachian settlements from the Eastern Seaboard cities.

Following the victory of the United States in the American Revolution and the signing Treaty of Paris in 1783, the United States gained control of the British lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. During this time, thousands of settlers, such as Daniel Boone, crossed the Alleghanies into Kentucky and Tennessee, and the upper waters of the Ohio River were settled. Some areas, such as the Virginia Military District and the Connecticut Western Reserve, both in Ohio, were used by the states to reward to veterans of the war. How to formally include these new frontier areas into the nation was an important issue in the Continental Congress of the 1780s and was partly resolved by the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

American settlers in large numbers poured into the west. In 1788, American pioneers to the Northwest Territory established Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.  As settlers poured in, the frontier districts first became territories, with an elected legislature and a governor appointed by the president. Then when population reached 100,000 the territory applied for statehood. Frontiersmen typically dropped the legalistic formalities and restrictive franchise favored by eastern upper classes, and adopting more democracy and more egalitarianism.

The War of 1812 marked the final confrontation between major Native forces trying to stop the advance, with British aid. The British war goal included the creation of an independent Native state (under British auspices) in the Midwest.

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American frontier militiamen under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creeks and opened the Southwest, while militia under Governor William Henry Harrison defeated the Native-British alliance at the Battle of the Thames in Canada in 1813. The death in battle of the Native leader Tecumseh dissolved the coalition of hostile Native tribes. Meanwhile, General Andrew Jackson ended the Native military threat in the Southeast at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 in Alabama. In general the frontiersmen battled the Natives with little help from the U.S. Army or the federal government.

Following the war, the European colonists made an effort to stretch their country from sea to sea, conquering and subjugating the people that already lived in those territories.

The concept of the frontier persisted even through the World Wars, with the United States occupying pacific islands, the Philippines, and certain countries in South and Central America.

Sources:

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-legendary-mountain-men-of-the-american-frontier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-americanfrontier/

My U.S. History class this term

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The Story of Charles Willson Peale’s Massive Mastodon

https://sciencespies.com/nature/the-story-of-charles-willson-peales-massive-mastodon/

The Story of Charles Willson Peale’s Massive Mastodon

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | May 6, 2020, 10:44 a.m.

In the 18th century, French naturalist George-Louis Leclerc, Comte du Buffon (1706-1778), published a multivolume work on natural history, Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére. This massive treatise, which eventually grew to 44 quarto volumes, became an essential reference work for anyone interested in the study of nature.

The Comte de Buffon advanced a claim in his ninth volume, published in 1797, that greatly irked American naturalists. He argued that America was devoid of large, powerful creatures and that its human inhabitants were “feeble” by comparison to their European counterparts. Buffon ascribed this alleged situation to the cold and damp climate in much of America. The claim infuriated Thomas Jefferson, who spent much time and effort trying to refute it—even sending Buffon a large bull moose procured at considerable cost from Vermont.

While a bull moose is indeed larger and more imposing than any extant animal in Eurasia, Jefferson and others in the young republic soon came across evidence of even larger American mammals. In 1739, a French military expedition found the bones and teeth of an enormous creature along the Ohio River at Big Bone Lick in what would become the Commonwealth of Kentucky. These finds were forwarded to Buffon and other naturalists at the Jardin des Plantes (the precursor of today’s Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle) in Paris. Of course, the local Shawnee people had long known about the presence of large bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick. This occurrence is one of many such sites in the Ohio Valley that have wet, salty soil. For millennia, bison, deer and elk congregated there to lick up the salt, and the indigenous people collected the salt as well. The Shawnee considered the large bones the remains of mighty great buffalos that had been killed by lightning.

An infuriated Thomas Jefferson (above: 1805 by Rembrandt Peale) spent much time and effort trying to refute Buffon’s claim—even sending him a large bull moose procured at considerable cost from Vermont.

(New York Historical Society)

Later, the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone and others, such as the future president William Henry Harrison, collected many more bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick and presented them to George Washington, Ben Franklin and other American notables. Sponsored by President Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark also recovered remains at the site, some of which would end up at Monticello, Jefferson’s home near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Meanwhile in Europe, naturalists were initially at a loss of what to make of the large bones and teeth coming from the ancient salt lick. Buffon and others puzzled over the leg bones, resembling those of modern elephants, and the knobby teeth that looked like those of a hippopotamus and speculated that these fossils represented a mixture of two different kinds of mammals.

Later, some scholars argued that all the remains might belong to an unknown animal, which they called “Incognitum.” Keenly interested in this mysterious beast and based on his belief that none of the Creator’s works could ever vanish, Jefferson rejected the notion that the Incognitum from Big Bone Lick was extinct. He hoped living representatives were still thriving somewhere in the vast unexplored lands to the west.

Charles Willson Peale, well-known for his portraits had a keen interest in natural history and so he created his own museum (above: The Artist in His Museum by Charles Willson Peale, 1822).

(Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, gift of Mrs. Sarah Harrison)

In 1796, Georges Cuvier, the great French zoologist and founder of vertebrate paleontology, correctly recognized that Incognitum and the woolly mammoth from Siberia were likely two vanished species of elephants, but distinct from the modern African and Indian species. Three years later, the German anatomist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach assigned the scientific name Mammut to the American fossils in the mistaken belief that they represented the same kind of elephant as the woolly mammoth. Later, species of Mammut became known as mastodons (named for the knob-like cusps on their cheek teeth).

By the second half of the 18th century, there were several reports of large bones and teeth from the Hudson Valley of New York State that closely resembled the mastodon remains from the Ohio Valley. The most noteworthy was the discovery in 1799 of large bones on a farm in Newburgh, Orange County. Workers had uncovered a huge thighbone while digging up calcium-rich marl for fertilizer on the farm of one John Masten. This led to a more concerted search that yielded more bones and teeth. Masten stored these finds on the floor of his granary for public viewing.

News of this discovery spread fast. Jefferson immediately tried to buy the excavated remains but was unsuccessful. In 1801, Charles Willson Peale, a Philadelphia artist and naturalist, succeeded in buying Masten’s bones and teeth, paying the farmer $200 (about $4,000 in today’s dollars) and tossing in new gowns for his wife and daughters, along with a gun for the farmer’s son. With an additional $100, Peale secured the right to further excavate the marl pit.

In 1801, Peale (above: Self-Portrait with Mastodon Bone, 1824) succeeded in buying Masten’s bones and teeth, paying the farmer $200 (about $4,000 in today’s dollars) and tossing in new gowns for his wife and daughters, along with a gun for the farmer’s son.

(New York Historical Society)

To remove water from the site, a millwright constructed a large wheel, so that three or four men walking abreast could provide the power to move a chain of buckets that bailed out the pit using a trough leading to a low-lying area of the farm. Once the water level had dropped sufficiently, a crew of workers recovered additional bones in the pit. In his quest to get as many bones and teeth of the mastodon as possible, Peale acquired additional remains from marl pits on two neighboring properties before shipping everything to Philadelphia. One of these sites, the Barber Farm in Montgomery, is today listed as “Peale’s Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site” in the National Register of Historic Places.

Peale, well-known for the portraits he had painted of several of the Founding Fathers as well as other prominent individuals, had a keen interest in natural history and so he created his own museum. A consummate showman, the Philadelphia artist envisioned the mastodon skeleton from the Hudson Valley as the star attraction for his new museum and set out to reconstruct and mount the remains for exhibition. For the missing bones, Peale crafted papier-mâché models for some and carved wooden replicas for others; eventually he reconstructed two skeletons. One skeleton was exhibited at his own museum—marketed on a broadside as “the LARGEST of Terrestrial Beings”—while his sons Rembrandt and Rubens took the other on tour in England in 1802.

Peale secured the right to further excavate the marl pit. To remove water from the site, a millwright constructed a large wheel, so that three or four men walking abreast could power a chain of buckets (above: Exhumation of the Mastodon by Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1806-08)

(Maryland Historical Society, gift of Bertha White)

Struggling financially, Peale unsuccessfully lobbied for public support for his museum where kept his mastodon. After his passing in 1827, family members tried to maintain Peale’s endeavor, but ultimately they were forced to close it. The famous showman P. T. Barnum purchased most of the museum’s collection in 1848, but Barnum’s museum burned down in 1851, and it was long assumed that Peale’s mastodon had been lost in that fire.

Fortunately, this proved not to be the case. Speculators had acquired the skeleton and shipped it to Europe in order to find a buyer in Britain or France. This proved unsuccessful. Finally, a German naturalist, Johann Jakob Kaup (1803-1873), bought it at a greatly reduced price for the geological collection of the Grand-Ducal Museum of Hesse in Darmstadt (Germany). The skeleton is now in the collections of what today is the State Museum of Hesse. In 1944, it miraculously survived an air raid that destroyed much of the museum, but which damaged only the mastodon’s reconstructed papier-mâché tusks.

Peale envisioned the mastodon skeleton as the star attraction for his new museum and set out to reconstruct and mount the remains for exhibition (above: The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale’s Museum by Charles Willson Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale, 1822).

(Detroit Institute of Arts)

In recent years, Peale’s skeleton has been conserved and remounted based on our current knowledge of this extinct elephant. It stands 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) at the shoulder and has a body length, measured from the sockets for the tusks to the base of the tail, of 12.2 feet (3.7 meters). It has been estimated to be about 15,000 years old.

Mammut americanum roamed widely through Canada, Mexico and the United States and are now known from many fossils including several skeletons. It first appears in the fossil record nearly five million years ago and became extinct about 11,000 years ago, presumably a victim of changing climates following the last Ice Age and possibly hunting by the first peoples on this continent. Mastodons lived in open forests. A New York State mastodon skeleton was preserved with gut contents—pieces of small twigs from conifers such as fir, larch, poplar and willow—still intact.

This year Peale’s mastodon returns to her homeland to become part of the upcoming 2020 exhibition entitled “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Alexander von Humboldt had collected teeth of another species of mastodon in Ecuador and forwarded them to Cuvier for study. He also discussed them with Jefferson and Peale during his 1804 visit to the United States. The three savants agreed that Buffon’s claim concerning the inferiority of American animal life was without merit.

Currently, to support the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, all Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.D. and in New York City, as well as the National Zoo are temporarily closed. The exhibition, “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture” will go on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2020.

#Nature

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[earth-as-art]

The Land Between the Lakes

For more than a hundred years, the fertile and forested patch between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers was referred to as the “land between the rivers.” In the 1960s, it became the “land between the lakes.”

In an attempt to control flooding and to generate electricity in rural Kentucky and Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) built Kentucky Dam, thereby impounding the Tennessee River and creating Kentucky Lake in 1944. It became the largest manmade lake east of the Mississippi River.

Two decades later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blocked the flow of the nearby Cumberland River as well. With the completion of Barkley Dam in 1966, the waters of the Cumberland piled up into Lake Barkley. In the process of creating the two lakes, residents of several small towns along and between the rivers were moved, and parts of some towns were permanently flooded. A few local roads and railways had to be re-routed.

Engineers also dug out Barkley Canal in order to bring the two rivers and lakes to the same water level. This allowed ships and barges to more easily move goods (without locks) from the Cumberland and Tennessee river valleys toward the mighty Mississippi River. By the time they were done, the TVA and Army Corps had created one of the largest inland peninsulas in the United States.

In the years after the lakes were created, the new peninsula was slowly converted into a recreation area for hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, and camping. Now managed by the U.S. Forest Service, the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area includes one of the largest freshwater recreation complexes in the United States. The parkland and lakes attract roughly two million visitors per year. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired this natural-color image of the region on October 7, 2016.

Near Golden Pond, some forests have been cleared and re-seeded to return the land to what it likely looked in the 19th century. That grassland prairie also has been settled with elk and bison that once roamed the region. Recreational facilities also include a planetarium and a woodlands nature station. At the southern end of Land Between the Lakes, near the town of Dover, a re-creation of an 1850s homestead includes rare breeds of livestock and plants from that era.

References and Further Reading

NASA Earth Observatory (2017) National Parks from Space.

UNESCO (2017) MAB Biosphere Reserves Directory: Land Between the Lakes. Accessed December 14, 2017.

U.S. Forest Service (2017) Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. Accessed December 14, 2017.

Wikipedia (2017) Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. Accessed December 14, 2017.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Mike Carlowicz.

Instrument(s): Landsat 8 - OLI

[baheersamad]

Atari Brings Deer Hunter Event To PC, 360 This Autumn

Confess. You want a military-style weapon with a large clip as well as lengthy array because (1) it's a cool tool and (2) you intend to be ready when the "black helicopters" supporting the U.N. The majority of the locations I pursued were smaller sized sections that were fairly level, open, as well as thought about property, and the landowners were reluctant to permit deer hunting with long array tools. Deer searching is now an entertainment task, organised and also supported for at the national degree by the New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association. Training courses are run by organisations such as the British Association for Capturing as well as Conservation as well as this qualification is likewise consisted of within the Degree 1 deer tracking certificate. Many deer seekers run out of suggestions as to what to do with all their deer meat. The size of the season is commonly based on the health and wellness and also populace of the deer herd, along with the number of hunters expected to be participating in the deer quest. The DFW will certainly additionally produce certain amount of time within the season where the variety of hunters able to hunt is limited, which is known as a regulated hunt.

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For example, Kentucky enables the taking of antlerless deer throughout any kind of deer period in a lot of the state, yet in certain areas permits only antlered deer to be taken throughout components of deer period. Given that I have rather huge hands, I opted to purchase the larger lever handle that permits added space for huge hands and putting on gloves during cooler outing. UK deer stalkers, if supplying venison (in fur) to game suppliers, butchers as well as restaurants, require to hold a Lantra degree 2 big game meat health certificate. If providing venison for public usage (meat), the provider needs to have a fully operating and also tidy groceries that fulfills FSA requirements and also need to sign up as a food service with the regional authority. Techniques of pursuing ready wild meat and also matching periods undergo policy by state federal governments as well as as a result differ from one state to another. That certainly, undergoes change, yet thus far, I absolutely love the method this rifle manages in close quarters such as ground blinds as well as tree stands. September and can copulate up until February like in Texas. This type jumps on extremely well with other pets and can be relied on with children.