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Fall Upland Tales is off to the printer, and should be arriving in your mailboxes soon. This issue features a stories on pheasant hunting, dog training, and GPS. Our cover photo highlights our Kids Doing Conservation article on a group of youth, who with the help of Iowa’s Aldo Leopold PF Chapter, won Disney’s “Planet Challenge” contest with a quail habitat project. The triumph took them to Disneyland and landed them on national television!
Mystery Photo
The birds are migrating snow geese photographed eating in a corn stubble field in southeast Colorado last November. Before humans started planting crops on their migration route, many snow geese died during their spring and fall migrations between the arctic and the Gulf of Mexico. Now, because the geese fatten up on waste grain, more of them survive the stress of migration. Unfortunately, the expanded flocks are now ruining their sensitive arctic nesting grounds for themselves and other wildlife. more…
Congratulations to our summer photo contest winners, and thank you everyone for your fantastic submissions!
Our First Place Winner is Cody Murken, 9, of Starbuck, Minnesota. Judges comments: The subject, captured in Palisades State Park, South Dakota, was unique and the focus was sharp.
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From pronghorns to hummingbirds, life gets on the move when the weather changes
Animals, including humans, migrate for various reasons, but mostly to escape winter.
Some Wyoming pronghorns migrate to escape the severe cold and lack of food near Yellowstone National Park (photo: Mark Herwig).
Most animals migrate out of the north in winter to warmer southern climes to escape the cold and lack of food that would kill them. Many people do the same: older folks, in particular, leave the north to avoid winter’s diseases, cold and ice which can injure or kill them.
Here are two outstanding examples of animal migration that fascinate.
Wyoming’s Pronghorn
I used to think big game migrations in Western America disappeared with the end of the frontier (1893).
But in Wyoming, a small herd of pronghorn has been trudging the same 200-mile route, the longest migration in the lower 48 states, for over 6,000 years. more…
