Here’ a link to CBC a Canadian news agency reporting on the attack.
CBC Report

Here’s another report: Blogged on the UK blog “Tech”

A TEEN country singer has died after being mauled by coyotes.
Talented Taylor Mitchell, 19, was heard screaming for help while out hiking.
She was airlifted to hospital in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she died.
Cops shot and injured one of the animals.

The attack shocked wildlife expert Bob Bancroft, who said coyotes were normally shy.
He said: “It’s very unusual and is not likely to be repeated.”

Pretty Taylor, from Toronto, was touring Canada to promote her new album.
The brunette was hiking solo on a trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park on Tuesday when she was attacked.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Brigdit Leger said other hikers heard Taylor’s screams for help.Coming to her assistance, and chasing away the two coyotes attacking her.
Paul Maynard of the Emergency Health Services said Taylor was in critical condition when medics arrived on the scene. She had multiple bite wounds over her entire body.
Mr Maynard said: “She was losing a considerable amount of blood from the wounds.”

Coyotes, which also are known as prairie wolves, are found from Central America to the United States and Canada.

Taylor died from her wounds a short time after reaching the hospitol.

At last report one coyote had been found, shot and wounded. The busy trail has been closed until the two coyotes were found and euthanized. The wounded coyote has not been recovered but appeared to be healthy. Fueling further concern that more attacks could occur.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2704831/Killer-coyotes-maul-teen-singer.html#ixzz0VzTFJNEk

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2704831/Killer-coyotes-maul-teen-singer.html#ixzz0VzTFJNEk

Here’s More:

Can Canada’s killer coyote species show up in Los Angeles?
By LA Weekly in Environment
Wed., Nov. 4 2009 @ 11:01AM
By Donna Barstow

Last week Taylor Mitchell, a promising young musician from Toronto, was mauled and killed by two coyotes while hiking alone in Nova Scotia. Other hikers heard her screams and she was airlifted to Halifax, but died October 28. She was a folk and country musician nominated for a 2009 Canadian Folk Music Award in the Young Performer of the Year category.

Just five weeks ago, an urban coyote scare hit Griffith Park when two men claimed a coyote bit them, going for their feet. Then the city’s Animal Services and Recreation and Parks folks called in shooters from the USDA to kill seven coyotes, getting City Hall in hot water.

Fish & Game and the USDA tell us that nine animals were killed, and that the medical reports show one man was scratched on his foot, the other bruised on his foot. And then we learned that one man was a city employee goofing off instead of working on the day he was confronted by the coyote, so the report lagged the actual attack.

The Los Angeles Times blog, Outposts, wondered how likely it is that a Canadian-style coyote attack could happen in L.A. Here’s the answer:

Impossible. Coyotes in eastern North America are a totally different breed–some call them coywolfs because they’re part wolf and 11 pounds heavier on average.

Griffith Park Ranger Tom Mendidles told the Weekly: “Those coyotes are called hybrids, half-wolf, but there aren’t any in the Park. Griffith Park is like an island, separated by houses and freeways from any outlying packs or interbreeding.”

Kevin Cooper, a federal expert, adds, “since they are part wolf, their patterns and behavior are probably going to be different, too, just as with wolf-dogs.” But L.A. coyotes are still predators, “so be careful with pets and small children.”

The Chronicle Herald of Nova Scotia is reporting that the Canada attack was bizarre because, as researcher Jon Way notes, “I don’t think they regard people, even kids, as an opportunity for a food source … They certainly are not like (big) cats that regard people as food, they just don’t do that.”

Tests were completed yesterday, and one coywolf killed by Canadian officials was a healthy female, not starving.

Here’s an interesting PS to this strange tale: In The New York Times on Sunday, Taylor Mitchell’s mother asked authorities to spare any remaining coyotes involved in the attack. A Parks Canada conservation officer responded, “We’re not out here conducting a general cull.”

Apparently Canadian officials don’t share the same genes as L.A. city officials.

Here’s MY VIEW:
All of this does nothing to mitigate that this young lady is dead.

Taylor Mitchell (MSNBC Photo)

In the past knowledgeable hunters and outdoorsman have foretold of this aggression. “Near death” episodes have become common knowledge. Packing coyotes are growing more and more aggressive. It is time to cull these things before we have to carry guns in town. Enough is enough!!!

                   NOW IS THE TIME!!!

 WE NEED EFFECTIVE COYOTE CONTROL!!!  BRING BACK SNARING…….AND GIVE US THE BOUNTY!!!!!

 ARE YOU WILLING TO LET ONE OF YOUR LOVE ONES DIE IN SUCH A HORRIFIC WAY!!!!!

  JUST TO SAVE THAT “CUTE LITTLE PUPPY” ???? 

 SAVE THE SENTIMENTALITY FOR HUMAN KIND…….TAKE THE ANIMAL OFF THE PEDESTAL.

 SACRIFICES ARE BEING MADE FOR THIS …….LET”S JUST NOT ALLOW ANOTHER HUMAN SACRIFICE!!!!!!!

Hey folks,
Just a word about a cool site I found. If you are planning on hunting or fishing in Aroostook. Check out Monticello Weather.

Their weather reports are very accurate……and admittedly it is cool to see the snow fall.

By now you know Gay marriage is no more in Maine!!!! In all 31 states that had gay marriage, repealed it by popular vote. The many won over the special interests of the few!!!

Michael Wadell Guest Blog Post

Whether hunting public or private land, the fundamentals of calling elk remain the same.
We heard the bull bugle at first light and snuck into his core area. When I hit a lick on my bugle, the bull sim­ply came unglued and stormed our position like a tank, crashing through brush and small lodgepole pines like they were match­sticks. Before we could react he was in our lap and we were pinned down, myself hiding behind a camera, too afraid to even touch the tripod for fear of my shaking hands would run the footage. All I could see of my partner wedged against a stunted pine was the tip of his undrawn arrow shaking uncontrollably on the rest. Before a shot presented itself, the bull smelled a rat and disappeared as quickly as he arrived. While this experience didn’t result in a dead elk, it did hopelessly addict me to calling them.

It seems that in all walks of life, be it the animal kingdom or humans, communication is a key ingredient for all social interac­tion. However not all living things communicate to the same degree. If you ask my wife, I am sure she will tell you I lack in the communication department, in fact I am sure she believes I don’t listen to her at all, but when it comes to communicating with animals I can barely shut up. Of all the animals I love to communicate with elk rate right at the top.

By nature elk are very vocal. The uninitiated often simply think of bulls bugling, but cows, calves and bulls make all sorts of noises year around. If you encounter a larger herd of elk while you might not hear a thing from a distance, if you get close you will hear lots of subtle vocalization. Most of the time these are sounds of contentment, but depending on what’s happening the vocalization reflects it. Elk can convey contentment, danger, curiosity, or a cow in heat. Bulls for instance only bugle primar­ily in the rut, but they also communicate to establish a pecking order. After spending a considerable amount of time chasing the mighty wapiti, I’m convinced every elk in the herd knows each other by sound alone. This happens with the cows as well as the bulls and based on my evaluation somewhere in this mix is the deadly secret to calling elk archery-close.

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

It seems that the more vocal a herd the better the odds are for success at calling them. Some cows call subtle, while others are loud-mouth ladies actively looking for a date. By listening it gives you a better opportunity to imitate the particular tones and intensity of the herd.

By calling we are automatically intruding into the social club without an invitation. The closer we can sound to a known elk, and match that intensity the better the odds are of filling a tag. Even though we may sound like an outsider to the herd, luckily for us, love crazed bulls are not looking to be intimate with just one or two cows they are looking for all the love of every cow in the world, so taking advantage of their sexual frustrations and promiscuity is what we aim to do.

It doesn’t take a world champion elk caller to trick bulls within range. By simply paying attention to the herd and under­standing simple elk rhythm, tone and more important volume when calling, a hunter can depend on an elk call to be a valuable asset to dulling broadheads.

Public Versus Private Land

Since I started hunting elk 16 years ago, on private as well as public ground, I have realize that comparing these two different types of ground are like comparing night and day and it is all about the amount of pressure each receives. Generally speaking private ground bulls are way easier to call than public ground animals, but this is not always the case. Some private land does get a lot of pressure, which can make for some pretty tough calling duels with elk that can serve you up a humble pie every time you bust out a call. While conversely some public land either through sheer remoteness or hard-to-get tags is like calling the best private land in the nation.

Hunting un-touched land and cow calling to bulls that have never heard a Hoochie Mamma would obviously be nice and it wouldn’t take long work­ing over these uneducated elk to start feeling like an elk calling pro only to be deflated the first time we went to the national forest and mixed it up with bulls so well-known by local hunters that they have knick names. However, regardless of where you hunt the basics of calling remain the same.

Start with mastering the cow call and all its various inflections. Your basic reed type calls are the easiest to learn as well as get proficient with. You will find two kinds; both are bite down reed-type of calls, one being enclosed and the other having an open reed or reeds. These calls make a very realistic sound and before your wife can run you out of the house you will master the basics.

I rely heavily on the cow call and think most of the time hunters are better off sticking with it over a bugle no matter where he is hunting. But learning how to make a basic bugle is important, especially for locating bulls at a distance before getting close and working him with your cow call. In addition, sometimes it is the bugle that finally provokes a dominant bull to commit, especially during the early season when bulls are still sorting out their peckin’ order.

Earning Your Public Ground PhD

Lets face it, unless you have deep pockets much of the private ground in the West is pretty much off limits, so you have to learn to hunt public land. This is not a bad thing as public ground comprises millions upon millions of acres across the West and happens to have some of the biggest bulls found anywhere. While it can be tougher than private, once you learn how to hunt it you won’t be disappointed. Over the years, one of my favorite places to hunt is the Gila National Forest, in New Mexico, and even though this is a trophy area tags are fairly obtainable through application.

In the Gila, the trophy potential is off the chart, sporting some of the biggest bulls in the country, but just because the big ones live there doesn’t mean that you automatically make one call and they come running to get in the back of your truck. These mature jokers have a PhD in avoiding hunters.

Over the last six years I have hunted this area religiously and have had the op­portunity to shoot some nice bulls all by using elk calls as an aid to close the coffin.

Notice I said, “as an aid”, meaning the call was just one thing in a bag of tricks to help smoke these monarchs. My biggest bull that came out of the Gila was a 378 P&Y bull that had earned the name Professor because he always seemed to take you to school when you applied too much pressure. However, this bull was vocal and would bugle his butt off. He also seemed to be fairly easy to find, not only by his gnarly, raspy bugle that set him apart, but frequently he could be found early in the morning in a large meadow just south of a particular water hole that always attracted a large herd.

The Professor was not the only bull in the area that had large headgear, but it was The Professor that seemed to call the shots. I had caught this bull in the open several times, but calling seemed to really make him uneasy when you were in close. The Professor however would bugle hard to distant cow calls and seem to be whole heartedly interested, but had a sixth sense when you moved in for the attack.

Finally we decided to have a caller stay behind as we worked him coming off the meadow at daybreak. By doing this we could keep him interested and bugling as we stalked in closer. The caller always was no closer than 80 yards behind me. While the caller kept him occupied, I slid within 50 yards and gave him a G5 Tekan right behind the shoulder. This hunt was really a stalk, but the call and caller had a big part to do with his demise. Once we started quartering the bull up, we found a piece of an old arrow lodged just below the backstraps, so obviously someone had him in close before and gave the Prof and education, which explained why he was so wary.

The Double Team

As this old bull showed, hunting with a partner can work extremely well. It not only puts the hunter out in front of the call, but it gives the hunter a chance to move and adjust the angle based on where the bull might be ap­proaching. Likewise, the caller has the flexibility to move as well and apply a lot of different calling techniques.

The double team plan worked again on another hunt. It had been hot and the bulls were only bugling early and late. As soon as the sun would rise the elk woods would turn in to a ghost town.

Just after daybreak on the fourth day of our hunt we heard this bull bugle. He hit it only two times, both very weak and he sounded like the littlest rag horn in the land but with no other game in town we went after him. Getting as close as pos­sible to where we thought the bugle came from I eased up and sat down by a pine stump while my buddy moved back and to my right about 40 yards. Neither of us were very optimistic about our chances. My buddy made one or maybe two very soft cow calls on a two reed diaphragm then he started raking a tree and rolled a few rocks. We sat there for possibly 10 minutes in silence, then out of nowhere appeared a wide 340 inch 6 x 6 coming directly to us, at 25 yards the bull let out a soft chuckle, looked over his surround­ing and kept walking in the direction of where the last rock had been rolled, which led him 16 steps from my pine stump. By now I was at full draw waiting for a broadside shot. When the arrow left my bow, I knew we had killed a call shy monster by keeping it low key and stay­ing patient. Needless to say, I was never convinced by the two times he had bugled earlier that he was a shooter. This was a lesson in itself. Never judge a bugle until you can see what is making the sound.

The most exciting way to bag a bull elk is to get him in close, and the best way to do that is with a call. Confidence in your call is critical, because if you’re insecure about using your call there is a good chance you will spook elk. Have confi­dence in your calling ability and become just another elk in the herd where you are hunting. Find a call that works for you and not what works for some else. Think like an elk and do as elk do. Real­ism, rhythm, and volume control can make the difference between bringin’ them in or running them over the next ridge. And remember its not always about calling, it can be just patiently listening to the sounds around you and applying minimal calls, while practicing good woodsmenship, and stalking skills that could help you put that monster on the back of the truck.

NOTE:This blog post was used with permission from Michael Waddell and Skinny Moose Media. Northwoods Wanderings is a proud member of Skinny Moose Media Blogs

I spend alot of time cruising the internet in an effort to promote this blog and to find us new stuff. Well I think I have found the Ultimate Outdoor Site
What I found was an outdoor site called My Outdoor TV .com
Now if you are anything like me you love those hunting videos. Also like me you love learning more about hunting. Than this is the place for you, too. Some of the best shows on TV are here for your reference and enjoyment. The cool thing is……it’s free!!!!! No subscriptions…no dish network/direct tv bills……and the cable company can’t jack your rates every three months or so.

Well to be quite honest I hate TV!!!! THAT STUPID BLACK BOX CAN SIT THERE IN THE CORNER AND ROT!! I don’t have cable or satellite and it mostly gets used to watch DVD’s or Tapes. Well it looks like it is going to see alot less use than that from here on. (Wifey may not agree, so I reserve the right to recant should my life become endangered.)

You have to try the site……..
PS. THIS IS A NON-PAID ENDORSEMENT……..JUST DO IT!!!!!

Well with the crappy weather we had here in the County………things didn’t go well for the fifty or so I knew would be hunting. Out of the 49 or 50 I know, only one buck was taken. With no doe permits around it is going to be a lean year for deer meat in Aroostook. Our deer herd is in sad shape. From a huge record setting herd in 2006……then the killer storms of 2007. Less than projected deer kills in 2008 showing, along with field studies,that we lost at least 50% of our deer. Who knows how many bears and more than a few of our moose. It is going to be awhile before we get to fill a freezer here in my neck of the woods.

But if you have anything left in the freezer you might want to try this sometime:

Stir fry venison:

One part venison steak

2 parts carrots

2 1 part bean sprouts

1/2 part celery

1 part broccoli

1/2 cup unsalted peanuts

2 cloves garlic, minced

1/2 cup soy sauce

1 tbsp. crushed red pepper

1 tsp. cumin

Cooked noodles- use standard egg noodle, chow mein, or ramen minus the seasoning packet.

(Exact amount of Ingredients is proportional to how many people you are serving. Using 1/2 lb. of venison as 1 part will feed 2 hungry people.)

Slice steaks cross grain and marinade in soy sauce for one day. Throw a little oil in a hot wok to avoid sticking. Stir in venison for about 1 minute. Add other Ingredients, including seasoning, stirring frequently. Add additional soy sauce to coat all Ingredients. Stir in noodles and serve immediately. This dish is low in fat,the only fat comes from the peanuts and oil, which you can control.

Find this and more recipes at: Wildgame Recipes

I have long believed we are what we eat, and we are who or what we believe we are!!!!!!!

Here’s a man that understands the truth of true!!

Ted Nugent

Want to effect change in 20012!!!! Write him in as your “Independant Choice for President”.

I’M NOT KIDDING!!!!!!!! That’s how I will vote in 2012!!

Great Song Ryan!!!

I found this while searching for some old “DaYoopers” stuff……you know.”2nd week of deer camp”…and “Da Turdy Point Buck”.

Share this with your friends…….awesome song!!!