When I was a kid I played by a creek that ran through our land in Wisconsin. Once time, we discovered some fossils in the sandstone rocks, and for the next several weeks I think I turned over nearly ever rock in that whole creek trying to find more. I don't have anything from mammoths or stuff like that, but I did get a box full of fossils. My two favorite pieces include one with a really neat fossil of coral, seashells and fish bones and the other a neat piece of shale with some fossilized grass leaves in the middle when I cracked it in half along the grain of the rock.
I've always said that if I ever found a bottle and a genie popped out and offered me some wishes, one of them would be to go back in time to see what my hunting land looked like at various points in history -just before and just after it was homesteaded, when Native Americans inhabited it..and even before that. I also think it would be cool if you could see what the biggest buck that ever walked across the land was.
This is a great topic and I think it shows how hunting really gets us connected to the land we hunt. Its just not about getting a deer, but its about experiencing and learning about nature, weather, geography, biology, and other natural sciences, archeology and history.
Oh, and my second wish would be for a 190 class typical for the coming season!
Not doing that anymore.
