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HOW TO: How to Carry Your Skis for Backcountry Travel
If this season brings you to that revered moment when you decide to give backcountry skiing a go, you might have basic questions beyond all the heady avalanche training and gear, stuff like, "How do...
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HOW TO: How to Find Work You Can Be Proud Of
Does any kid ever write a report about wanting to be an underpaid, bored, fluorescent-light-hypnotized office drone working for some giant soulless corporation when he or she grows up? Of course not. People crave work...
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HOW TO: Create a Backyard Wildlife Refuge
You can create a happy home for critters of all sizes and species in your very own backyard by creating a National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat. My first step is to get myself a...
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HOW TO: How to Meet Your Animal Neighbors
Check out this awesome tool from eNature.com, a site formerly belonging to the National Wildlife Federation (now owned by a privately held company). The tool is called the ZipGuide. Basically, it's a simple search engine....
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HOW TO: How to Identify a Bird - Even If You Only Saw It Once
Last weekend, while hiking (okay, lounging in the sun) in the Tule Elk Reserve in Point Reyes National Seashore, I spotted two white-gray birds circling and dipping overhead. Something about the way they were moving...