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With the wind behind them, diving ducks, sea ducks, and puddlers bank around the rocky corner with blistering speed. I bring the gun up just in time to lose their gray-black forms against a shady granite wall 50 yards across the channel, then pick them up again when sunlight flashes on white wing patches. We unleash ringing volleys, but few birds fall. Instead, whoops and hollers of admiration echo against the cliffs, the water, and the endless sky.
"Have you ever seen ducks fly so fast?" Fritz Reid yells, shaking his head. "Those birds were doing 50 miles per hour, easy."
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GOING BOREAL Trout Rock Lodge offers duck hunting and trophy pike fishing on the edge of one of the world’s largest wilderness areas. Contact Enodah Wilderness Travel, 867-873-4334 or enodah.com. Indian Head Camp offers trophy lake trout fishing at a remote fly-in camp on Lake Athabasca. Contact Indian Head Camp, 780-643-9209 or indianheadcamp.com. Northwest Territories Tourism offers a detailed print travel guide and web site. Go to explorenwt.com or call 800-661-0788. For more information on Alberta tourism, contact Travel Alberta at travelalberta.com or call 800-252-3782. WHERE THE WILD WOODS ARE To learn more about boreal forest conservation issues, check out these websites: To sign petitions in support of boreal forest conservation, go to saveourborealbirds.org |
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