National Elk Refuge

I never can forget the time i killed my first deer with a 243 in rifle season.When i was nine years old .I was hunting with my dad. Hunting is a skill and here is four reasons.Cleaning your gun,your ammo and you got to have your gun ready,clean your blind,gut your deer. In general,cleaning your gun is a hard and slow job.Because you got to get all of the powder out and cleaned.The better it is cleaned the better it will last and the longer it will last the more deer you can kill.You will…

If you are getting ready for your first elk hunting season, you need to make sure that you have the right accessories for a successful hunt. Here are a few accessories that will make your first elk hunting season more enjoyable. Rifle Sling If you are going elk hunting with a rifle, one of the best accessories you can purchase for yourself is a ready-carry rifle sling. A ready-carry rifle sling will allow you to keep your rifle at a ready position even when you are hiking around. A ready-carry…

hunting is one of the most popular types of hunting in North America. Waterfowl hunting is growing every year. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife service's “Migratory birds, such as geese and ducks attracted 2.6 million hunters in 2011” ("2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife ..."). In order to hunt, ducks hunters have to purchase a duck stamp.…

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a national wildlife refuge in northeastern Alaska and is the largest National Wildlife Refuge in the United States. Created by Congress in 1980 with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), this area is at the center of both economic and environmental controversy as it holds potential for the production of both oil and natural gas. The ANILCA’s most controversial piece was the decision to defer drilling and petroleum exploration…

Black Elk Speaks is a personal narrative that encompasses an autobiography of Black Elk’s life as a holy man and healer coupled with the tribal history of the lifestyle, and tough challenges that Native Americans faced during the westward expansion movement of white settlers. In the beginning of the book unravel the first unique cultural practice of the Lakota people. That is, before telling his story Black Elk invites Neihardt (the author of the book) to smoke with him the red willow bark in…

Nobody knows how the battle really started or who shot the first bullet because the us army tried to disarm a deaf person but we do know that this is a very important battle in native american history. We don't know why they thought that Sitting Bull was leading the ghost dance or even why they invaded our camp. We had to fight back but we couldn't do anything to stop them after they were in before we knew it. Sitting Bull had died a few weeks before the incident but that wasn’t gonna stop the…

mountains sound you while you are traveling through the trees, with the smell of bitterness and two-stroke fumes fills the air around you. With the ground having a thick blanket of snow, that looks hard but when moved turns to powder. The sight of Elk herds running up ahead, if you are lucky you will catch a glimpse of a mountain lion. We usually go up there for 5 days it takes us just two of those days to get there and back, the car ride usually takes around 10 hours to get to our cabin up…

conclusion both represents the nature and process of scientific studies. Scientific studies show that although wolves had been introduced back into Yellowstone park, elk were…

Wolves Were Never Needed Cyson Orr Madison High School Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help regulate the deer, elk, and bison herds. Little did we know, they were going to do much more than just regulate them. The wolf population has rapidly grown and spread across the states, greatly affecting local, and afar ecosystems and the populations of our deer and elk herds. The reintroduction of this species was a big mistake, and i have numerous examples here to show…

habitat and extermination programs led to the gray wolf’s demise. Wolves have once roamed all over the country. They’ve been nearly hunted to extinction with only 50 wolves left in the wild when Yellowstone National Park was young. Hunters back then thought they were helping the deer and elk by killing the wolf, its main predator. They were wrong. A 30 year project to restore the wolf population was made, and the wolves made an amazing recovery. The wolves are now moving outside of Yellowstone…