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Sweet Gum & Burnt Cork. On the Pacific Coast, nights had turned cold, and beachcombers gathered salt-crusted chunks of driftwood to add color to the flames of the winter's fireplaces. The salmon fisherman clumped along river banks for the fall run, and hunters, oiling their deer rifles, anxiously eyed the .forest fires that crackled in the summer-dry mountains. To the south, Los Angeles sweltered in 92° heat and awaited its first sight of a World Series by television...
...Texas river bottoms the sweet gum trees were tinged with yellow. At night, deer jumped the wire fences to nibble at the heavy-headed sorghum. The rivers ran low and clear, and yellow cats, black bass, carp and perch sailed lazily in their depths, too fat to bother with baited hooks. In northern Michigan, the bow & arrow boys, 18,000 strong, patiently honed their two-and three-bladed arrows, tentatively twanged their 5O-lb. bows, got out their brown-and-green camouflage suits, the grease paint and burnt cork for blacking their faces while stalking the wary deer...
Last year Florida dyed 157 doves bright yellow. Some of them traveled 450 airline miles in six days, and were reported by baffled hunters as a cross "between doves and canaries." (Florida also dyes squirrels blue, and paints the backsides of deer with dye.) This year five Southern states will dye doves, each state using a different dye. Wildlife experts do not think that the bright colors will expose the doves to their natural enemies. But they hope to find out more about the migration habits of doves by making marked individuals easy to identify...
...Urban Urge. In Denver, after a new deer enclosure had been built in the city park zoo, a two-year-old buck wandered into town, jumped the seven-foot fence, and joined...
Year after year, men cruising timber or hunting deer in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon had come back with the same story. Near the little hamlet of Kamela, they had often heard a faraway tinkling, a ghostly bell ringing. No one was ever able to track down the strange sound. It would fade away in the sighs of the wind through the big pines. Skeptics accused the men of hearing things...