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November/December 2006 issue	In this issue Table of Contents Feature: Wildlife stories Feature: Stealing the scene Feature: Lake Winnipeg Feature: Alberta’s Cypress Hills The Inside Story Editor’s Notebook Reverberations Explorer À la carte Mosaic

Photo: Ryan Carter

Shaped like the bony head of a prehistoric reptile, Manitoulin Island is a geological anomaly set in the crystal waters of Lake Huron and home to a thriving population of white-tailed deer. In times past, timber wolves and bears kept the population in check. Now, an annual cull takes place the third week of November.

A hunter will tag his buck by the horns, load it into his truck and cover it with a plastic tarp. Later, he will recount the details of his encounter in the woods over poker and a platter of barbecued chops or venison burgers, describing how the buck moved and how it looked as it trotted through the alders.

But there’s one thing he’ll omit from his story: the exact spot where it happened. The killing.

The place of the blood encounter is sacred in a way only hunters can understand — and beyond telling.

— Larry Frolick

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