Katie Hill

Why Don’t You Beaverslide? - Offrange Over a century ago, one homegrown invention redefined stacking hay in the West. Some ranchers still see no reason to upgrade.

The beaverslide is an engineering marvel, a huge, lumbering hay-baling invention from 1910. Some Montana ranchers still swear by it!

Fun new story from Katie Hill:
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Happy belated Earth Day! This was a fun one for MoJo. The alternative title to this book should be "How to Talk to People You Don't Agree With for the Sake of the Greater Good."

(The "spot the deer" is probably level easy-medium? Let me know.)

Scenes from a little spring glassing.
1.) Hey bud!
2.) Brave little souls
3.) Dreamy
4.) Play "spot the deer"

Cheers friend!

A dinner party at the end of the world - High Country News Scenes from a Wyoming wild game potluck amid a climate crisis.

And here's a slightly older one (my first for @highcountrynews.bsky.social) about wild game potlucks as climate-savvy community glue (which they've been for tens of thousands of years.)

Processing Deer to Eliminate Food Insecurity | The Daily Yonder It’s been 48 years since Kip Padgelek and his dad launched their custom deer processing business together. After a career revolving around all things

Here's one on the symbiotic relationship between hunters, independent butchers, deer populations, and the charitable food network:

A Collaborative Elk Restoration Is in the Works for Minnesota Wildlife managers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are working together to restore elk to the prairie-forest transition zone...

Here's one on an elk restoration effort in eastern Minnesota, which also marks the first collaborative effort between the Minnesota DNR and a tribal entity -- the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa -- to co-write a wildlife management plan:

If you're in the environment/wildlife/natural resource space and feeling overwhelmed by horrible news, here are some solutions-oriented wildlife pieces I've written recently that soothed my soul to work on. No pressure, but I promise there's zero mention of "Elon," "DOGE," or "layoff emails."

This feels like pertinent fodder for my first repost on here.

Hey Bsky! I'm Katie. I write about wildlife science/conservation, public lands/waters, hunting, wild foods, enviro policy, and a bunch of other stuff that probably seems irrelevant to modern society but is actually quite important.

Email: katiehillwriter@gmail.com
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