Out for a canoe trip on the Dugan Flats lake system. The Dugan Flats are a series of interconnecting lakes and streams providing up close views of geese, cranes, tundra and trumpeter swans, beaver, moose, otter and musk rat. Back water creeks are teeming with Northern pike. We harvest the wild edible plants such as the Cattail to add to our cuisine.
Here Bill is hauling a moose home with our 4-wheeler. One moose supplies our winter meat for our family of four. We butcher the meat into burger & sausage, steaks, stew meat and roasts. The quarters are hung in the fall to freeze for winter. When spring comes, our outdoor "freezer" breaks and we have to preserve the remaining meat in canning jars. Then we are able to enjoy meat in the summer.
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