NATURAL RESOURCES POP GOES THE WEASEL.So what exactly is a ferret ferret, name for a domesticated polecat, Mustela putorius, common in the Old World. It has been used for centuries to hunt rats, mice, and rabbits. Domestic ferrets are found in many color types including albinos, brown, and black. ? Ken Knowles knows better than anyone. After all, since a young age he was breeding ``all sorts of ferrets, some very good ones and some not so good and some that will always be wild.'' Knowles' Web site, Ferreting and Rabbiting (http://freespace.virgin.net/ken.knowles/), mostly details the art of trapping rabbits with ferrets roaming back and forth in a cage. ``Ferreting is an art, not just a matter of laying a net over a rabbit hole, throwing a ferret down and hoping to get a rabbit out,'' he writes. ``Your ferret (needs) to be fit and not just taken from (its) cage after an easy summer and expected to run down holes yards and yards long chasing and killing rabbits without laying up.'' And for Knowles, ``Ferrets are not just animals, they are machines who need to be serviced right so they can run right.'' --Cookout under the stars: If the Internet only had Smellovision, the aroma of the ``Ol' Buffalo Outdoor Cooking for information on more kitchen-like outdoor techniques, see Grilling and Barbecue. Outdoor cooking differs substantially from kitchen-based cooking, the most obvious difference being lack of an easily defined kitchen area. Page'' (http://www.three-peaks.net.cooking.htm) would be tough to resist. There are links to dozens upon dozens of other online cooking sites, mostly involving Dutch ovens. - Chris Cocoles National Geographic Adventure National Geographic Adventure, formerly known as Adventure One (A1) but now commonly known as Nat Geo Adventure, is a subscription TV channel part of National Geographic Channels International. American Places issue (Nov. 2002, $3.95) We dream of wild places. The writers and photographers National Geographic's Adventure magazine selected for this cover project live in them. The result is a predictably stunning list of 50 places in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. these experts find most grand. Jim Gorman's piece is augmented deeply by brief, yet wonderfully personal, essays by some of the nation's best outdoor writers, including my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. , Paul Theroux Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South . ``The pleasures,'' he writes of Stonington, Maine Stonington is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,152 at the 2000 census. Early History As with many stories of discovery and establishment of civilization, the true first inhabitants of any particular American region are generally , ``are the ospreys, the herons, the plovers, the aroma of spruce trees, the sun-warmed grass and enough space to vanish into.'' Of the 50 places, eight are in California, including the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is a reserve area off the Pacific coast of the United States, near California. Established in 1980, the 1,252 square nautical mile (4,294 km²) portion of the Santa Barbara Channel is an area of national significance because of , and the package features a U.S. map pinpointing all with Web sites and telephone numbers. Essayist Chip Brown said it is hard to tell whether you love a place for its beauty or the experiences you have there. Everyone owes it to himself to vanish into one of these spaces at least once in life to give that some thought. - Michael A. Anastasi CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: (color) no caption (magazine: National Geographic Adventure - American Places issue) Box: ON THE TUBE |
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