New England Winter 2024-25 Bantering, Whining, and Sobbing Thread

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Anyone have any idea what these prints are?

Could be a samsquanch

[ineedsnow]

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Anyone have any idea what these prints are?

Snowshoe hare?

[dendrite]

I thought hare, but looks slightly different from what I see online. 
 

It looks like the hind feet of a skunk, but no sign of the front paws. We do have one that hangs around. 

[Heisy]

Anyone see end of 18z euro? Will, this looks like it may have actually done something here



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[DavisStraight]

10 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I thought hare, but looks slightly different from what I see online. 
 

It looks like the hind feet of a skunk, but no sign of the front paws. We do have one that hangs around. 

Maybe a neighbor went streaking? Looks like human foot prints without shoes.

[ineedsnow]

23 minutes ago, Heisy said:

Anyone see end of 18z euro? Will, this looks like it may have actually done something here



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That was looking fun!

[DavisStraight]

On 2/21/2025 at 6:19 PM, dendrite said:

Anyone have any idea what these prints are?

I was the hunting/fishing expo in Springfield today and showed these prints to a couple of guides and no one could tell what they were.

[Layman]

@tamarack I was heading up 95N in Maine yesterday and near Kennebunk there was a tree cutting operation on the side of the road for a few miles. Looked to be predominantly pine, all stacked nicely in bundles/piles. 
That stretch has always seemed to flow really well so I assumed it wasn’t for some future fourth lane expansion. I was curious though, does the state harvest the wood to their setback and use that for income? 
It looked to be a good deal beyond what I see when Eversource comes through trimming their ROW’s and was staged very cleanly for retrieval. 
 

[dendrite]

14 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

I was the hunting/fishing expo in Springfield today and showed these prints to a couple of guides and no one could tell what they were.

Appreciate the effort. It was light enough to not bust through the snow. I still lean skunk.

[CoastalWx]

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Appreciate the effort. It was light enough to not bust through the snow. I still lean skunk.

Looks like bare foot human prints lol. Eek?

[DavisStraight]

5 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Looks like bare foot human prints lol. Eek?

It does. I talked to a trapper there who had every fur of animals in the wild of New England and he had no idea.

[DavisStraight]

7 hours ago, dendrite said:

Appreciate the effort. It was light enough to not bust through the snow. I still lean skunk.

I think you're right, I've been looking at skunk tracks and some of the are pretty close.

[tamarack]

On 2/23/2025 at 7:35 AM, Layman said:

@tamarack I was heading up 95N in Maine yesterday and near Kennebunk there was a tree cutting operation on the side of the road for a few miles. Looked to be predominantly pine, all stacked nicely in bundles/piles. 
That stretch has always seemed to flow really well so I assumed it wasn’t for some future fourth lane expansion. I was curious though, does the state harvest the wood to their setback and use that for income? 
It looked to be a good deal beyond what I see when Eversource comes through trimming their ROW’s and was staged very cleanly for retrieval. 
 

Maybe those pines had grown sufficiently tall to reach pavement if toppled in a crosswind.  I've heard nothing about a 4th lane - would be dumb.

Loggers get paid to cut along the interstates, due to the strung-out harvest area and the cost of ensuring safety for the traffic.  The timber value defrays much of the cost to the state.