[DaMadman]

Originally posted by Deerqueen
Skeeter..it may sound funny to you but one of the things I am most terrified of in the woods is a skunk!! One had me treed one day while bowhunting. It laid down at the base of my tree while I was up there in my stand..Those crazy things are not afraid of people..will run right up to you...and you never know if they have rabies or not!!!!

Rubicon I guess I'm not that KIND of a tree hugger...but I DO eat granola
I AM CERTAINLY NOT a PETA person...
I hunt and fish MAO, spend more days in the field than most anyone you know unless they are an outfitter...and probably have taken more deer than most of the guys you know (not trying to brag here...just proving a point). I am a SERIOUS OUTDOORS PERSON.
I have called myself a sportsperson and to that my significant other said " You don't see them selling sportspersons' licences, do you??!!!"..)since then I have called them sportspersons licences )
I am a treehugger too really and truely in the sense that I would do almost anything to keep these contractors from mowing down and tearing out our forrests and chopping up our big farms the way they are doing around here..In this area it has reached epidemic proportions...It is absolutely aweful the way they just bring bulldozers in and mow down everything. They don't consider the fact that someone might want to buy a lot with some older big trees on it. Some of the trees I recently watched them tear out were at least 200 years old (that is during the founding of our country, for CSakes!!) and they WERE healthy but now they are gone .
GREAT to hear about the cats, though..
keep it coming....................

You think it's bad in TN, you ought to come visit Maryland. I've seen more Farms and Wooded acres flat out leveled to the ground in the past ten years, Like you said 100-200 year old trees just layed over and burned up like toothpicks.
Makes ya wanna puke