September/October 2006
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  • RETHINKING FOOD PLOTS. VanSchaik examines the concepts of wildlife food plots and provides guidelines for naturally feeding deer, upland game birds, waterfowl, doves. Covers when to plant, diversity, size, when to supplement, and the two biggest mistakes.
  • ROTENONE. Lusk reviews the old and new concepts for the use of rotenone in fish management, includes hints for using.
  • OXYGEN SATURATION. Lusk describes basic concept of dissolving oxygen in water, how depletions occur, and supersaturation,
  • WINTER OXYGEN AND YOUR FISH. Willis explains photosynthesis, respiration and how the depletion of oxygen can affect winterkill in a pond. Included are affects of snow cover, nutrient loads, bacterial influences, production of decompositional gasses and the low oxygen sensitivity or tolerance of various fishes.
  • HOW SAFE IS THAT ICE? In this article insert, Willis explains several guidelines for the load limit of ice.
  • WHEN YOUR FACE IS LONGER THAN YOUR FISH. Mike Mitchell provides a good explanation of the foundation of the natural food chain in cold water fisheries. Included are calcium and magnesium hardness, fertilization of high altitude trout waters, introductions of invertebrates and importance of rooted vegetation, proper forage fish and feed efficiency in the coldwater forage base.
  • MOVE WATER TO CLEAN IT. Lusk explains some basic biology of small ponds and how moving water can improve its quality.
  • TONY STEWART'S LAKE PROJECT. Lusk describes the renovation of Stewart's lake, some of its features, and the stocking plan used to quickly produce a fishery of plenty of fish including catchable adult bass with the potential for fast growth and trophies.
  • POND PROJECT: A SPAWNING BOX FOR BROOK TROUT. Cornwell describes how to build a simple, water, flow through, gravel filled spawning box for producing fingerling trout.
  • FIXING LEAKY PONDS - FOR REAL. Otto describes how he rebuilt two, different styles of problematic leaky ponds; one was enlarged from an old shallow leaky pond and the other needed a leaky dam rebuilt and a bentonite oilfield slurry was recycled to seal the pond bottom.
  • KNOW YOUR POND – EGGS. Stelter gets some help teaching about the characteristics of eggs from frogs, toads, bass, bluegill, channel catfish.
  • THE WINGED SPRITES. Wyman describes some facts and features of hummingbirds.
  • IT'S ALL GOOD. Lusk provides an update on the progress of their house rebuilding after the fire.
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September/October 2006