The Hunter's Handbook 101 Tips to Improve Your FishingTraining the Versatile Gun Dog (with Alyson Knap)Getting Hooked on Fishing (with David Richey)Where to Fish and Hunt in North AmericaThe Family Camping Handbook A Complete Guide to Canoeing (with Carl Monk)ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PICTURE CREDITSMy most sincere thanks to E. B. Sanders for his many fine pen-and-ink sketches which illustrate thisbook.Thanks are also due to the following persons and organizations for the use of photographs: ArkansasFish and Game Commission (page 158); Bausch and Lomb Incorporated (page 66), Buck KnivesIncorporated (pages 68 and 77) ~ Bushnell Optical Incorporated (page 64); Canadian GovernmentTravel Bureau (page 28) Gerry/Outdoor Sports Industries Incorporated (pages 31 and 99); Jerome Knap(pages 54 and 80); E. Leitz Incorporated (pages 60 and 65); McCulloch Corporation (page 86), Normark Corporation (page 75 and 152) ; Ontario Ministry of Industry and Tourism (pages 82, 103, 107, 135, 138and 142) ; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (pages 120 and 131) ; Outboard Marine Corporation(page 147); Pennsylvania Game Commission (pages 34 and 32); RU-KO of Canada Limited (page 73).ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PICTURE CREDITS viINTRODUCTION1. UNDERSTANDING THE OUT-OF-DOORS2. OUTDOOR KNOW-HOWTraining Your Senses, Sounds and Smells: Interpreting Animal Actions3- WILDLIFE HAZARDSBears: Other Wildlife, Rabies, Dequilling a Dog; Wildlife onHighways, Snakes: Treating a Snake Bite-, Other Reptiles4- BEATING THE BUGSWasps, Hornets, and Bees: Scorpions and Spiders: Mosquitosand Blackflies; Horseflies and Deerflies-, Chiggers and ItchMites: Ticks, Caterpillars; Coping with Itching Bites5- POISONOUS PLANTSPoison Ivy: Poison Sumac; Poison Oak; Stinging Nettle