Considering the price of gasoline, it makes sense to buy things that are locally produced.  This applies to farm products, of course, but it also applies to lumber for building and wood products.  There are many reasons to buy lumber grown in local woodlots and milled locally.  The first to come to mind is the [...]

Forest fires strike fear in the heart of anyone living near huge tracts of forest land.  Fortunately there are brave fire fighters known as the smoke jumpers.  These individuals are carried over the forest in airplanes, and parachute out of the plane when they reach the scene of the fire.  Sometimes they rappel out of [...]

The weasel is a mammal fro the Order:  Carnivora  Family:  Mustelidae  Subfamily:  Mustelinae  Genus:  Mustela  Species:  16  (found world wide except for Antarctica and Australia).   10 species have weasel as a common name, whilst others are referred to stoat. ermine, polecats or ferrets. The weasel is often maligned and misunderstood.  In general the weasel is [...]