Mindful Carnivore Book Reading

I went to a book reading/discussion this past weekend with Tovar Cerulli, author of the Mindful Carnivore. I wrote a post about Tovar and his blog and book The Mindful Carnivore (which was still yet to be released at the time) a while back, as I had discovered that his essays on food and hunting [...]

Tracking Mystery Continued… Sort Of

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the faux bear tracks, I have this ridiculousness to share: My hunter colleague came into the office this morning, and I told him teasingly that he needed to work on his bear tracking skills.  Whoops.  He got pretty ruffled, and insisted that those tracks were indeed from a bear.  To the point where we [...]

Hibernating Bears and Living with Predators, Redux

It appears that I – and my handy-dandy mammalogy textbook – were wrong on the bears-not-hibernating front.  According to a fabulous bear resource I found today: www.bear.org (appropriately enough), bears DO hibernate. I know, go figure. Here’s an excerpt from their hibernating fact sheet (they say it far more eloquently than I could): When people [...]

A Mindful Carnivore

Tovar Cerulli is what he calls a “mindful carnivore” – a vegan-turned-hunter who writes about his adventures with and thoughts on hunting and animals at his blog: http://www.tovarcerulli.com/blog/, and in his new book “The Mindful Carnivore, A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance“. I met Tovar through email a while back; he contacted me regarding a blog post I had [...]

An Open Letter to Hunters in the Northest

I spoke at a tracking conference last weekend (http://www.northeastwildlifetrackers.org/) and MassWildlife had a past issue of their publication (from 2009) on display. I was disappointed to find that one of the main articles in this issue was about hunting coyotes – the tricks and tips hunters use to more effectively kill this animal. I have [...]