by Tim MacWelch
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS
Photography courtesy of Shutterstock, with the following exceptions: Peter Barrot / Digital Studio: cover, 7, 167 Bear Archery: 41 (recurve) Denver Bryan: 95 © Macduff Everton/Corbis: 158 Mark A. Garland / USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service: 126 (Indian cucumber root, Indian cucumber) Judy Hertz, Garden in a City blog: 121 (spicebush) Mitch Kezar/Windigo: Hunting introduction Taylor F. Lockwood: 115 (showy flamecap, scaly chanterelle, death angel), 118 (hen of the woods) William Mack: 6 (carved fish stick) Tim MacWelch: 118 (oyster), 119 (black walnut, hickory), 120 (bittercress, wild lettuce, plantain, clover, chickweed, wood sorrel), 122 (redbud, birch), 123 (curly dock), 124 (wild grape, autumn olive, cherry), 125 (burdock), 129 (wild grape, autumn olive, cherry), 132 (pokeweed berries, horse nettle fruit), 143 (dandelion), 202 (young jewelweed, adult jewelweed) Paolo Marchesi: 39 Marlin Firearms: 35 Matt Nager / Redux: photo of Andrew McKean PSE Archery: 41 (longbow) Remington: 35 (semiautomatic) © Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters/Corbis: 11 Dan Saelinger: 4 (center crickhopper, righthand plug, lefthand and righthand spinners, lefthand and righthand jigs, righthand fly), 35 (single shot, lever action, pump action, modern sporting), © Josef Scaylea/Corbis: 36 (mountain man with muzzleloader) Benjamin C Tankersley/For The Washington Post: Author Photo Thompson Center Arms: 35 (muzzleloader) Nathaniel Welch: 37 (hunter)
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