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 Heckalopter rides
For the past 6 months I've been taking regular helicopter rides to a couple of our remote radar sites. I never saw so much wildlife as I did today. Saw TWO herds of bison, about 30 moose, an elk, a coyote, an eagle and a hawk, and a few straggling migrating bids...probably sand hill cranes.
Our plot is a guy who usually flies for the department of fish and game, so he's not avers to flying right above the trees for a better look. Cool stuff.
Eric
"A republic, if you can keep it."
-----Ben Franklin
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Carry your camera next time! Some of us in the lower 48 love wide open country.
"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."
John Basil Barnhill
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
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 Originally Posted by W4HAY
Carry your camera next time! Some of us in the lower 48 love wide open country.
I was telliin' myself the same thing! It was a last minute semi-emergency radar-fixin' call, so I barely had time to grab my tool box. I guess I should get an extry camera for my toolbox. 
Eric
"A republic, if you can keep it."
-----Ben Franklin
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I didn't know there were bison in Alaska!
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Originally Posted by K7RQ
I didn't know there were bison in Alaska!
Yep!
http://explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/bl-bison.htm
"A republic, if you can keep it."
-----Ben Franklin
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The first bison I ever saw were in a pasture around the Budweiser brewery in North Columbus. Not sure why they brought them in. Maybe the clydesdales threatened to strike.
And I learned something about them during my visit to Yellowstone. They can show you which park visitors just arrived at the park. You'll see a string of cars pulled over and dozens of people on the side of the road snapping pictures of a single bison, lying low in the grass well across the river. Those are the newcomers. And if they just drive around the next bend in the road, there's a herd of a thousand or so. And if you have never had to stop to wait for a herd to cross the road, you haven't been to Yellowstone.
Steve
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CW: The mode that accomplishes the most with the least circuitry, the least spectrum, and the least power.
What hath God wrought?
He hath wrought that pounding brass still kicks .- ... ...
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Eric no smart phone
I started to carry mine tower climbing , after one tower job I just had to call down to the ground crew to send up .
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Originally Posted by K7RQ
I didn't know there were bison in Alaska!
If Alaska can put up with Eric I guess it can put up with Bison. They are similar.
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
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Y'all have some muskoxen up there also, don't you?
Fascinating animals, especially during the rut. Kinda like two steam locomotives at full throttle hitting head-on.
"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."
John Basil Barnhill
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
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Originally Posted by K8ERV
If Alaska can put up with Eric I guess it can put up with Bison. They are similar.
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
Hay Eric ,
This Tom guy is -------??????
I guess if you can't poke fun at friends , who can ya .
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