"I hate to tell you guys. The big boars are meaner than **** but totally uneatable. They stink and the meat has the smell and flavor of that stink.They have scent glands that marks their harem. The ones that are good to eat are the piglets up to 50 to 75 pounds. Great taste. After that the heads are good for trophies and that is it. The law says on the big razorbacks you do not have to haul them out of the woods. They run in packs and will attack humans because they are not afraid. Billie is from the swamps of Louisiana and her neighbor had a big boar run into their yard and bite the face off their five year old girl. The reputation of a razorback is no fairy tale. The one advantage a hunter has over a mean razorback is that they have poor eye sight. If you are still and quite they can not see you easily. My friend got attack because he had a small beagle with him that would not keep quite. Where Billie is from they have dogs (Catahoula Curs) that are trained to corner a wild hog.
Bill"

"Paul, If you make it down this way we will go hog hunting. The Boars are the ones that are uneatable. The females and piglets are great eating. If the boar is castrated as a piglet it will not have boar taint. Of course wild boars are not castrated. The cross breeds can reach massive size. My wife's dad keep hogs. They rooted
up hundreds of Indian tools. I have a collection of 1500 years tools from his hog pen and garden/
Bill
"

"I need to confess something to y'all. Here it goes:

a neighbor across the street had to suddenly move, and put his home up for rent. For years, I can remember seeing rocks sitting on a brick wall. Well, yesterday, I went over, stole them, and carried them home, where I scrubbed the poop and bug casings off, and left them for Dave to see. One appears to be a light brown sandstone with a fairly large depression in it. It shows about 1/3 of a pine cone!!!! The depression had lots of dirt in it, so I couldn't really see details. But let me tell you, guys, it's perfect!! You can even see where the stem should have been!!! Then, a lighter, tighter looking sandstone has the remains of 3 small shells on one side. It has gray paint on it, so I know that the owners before these left them there. The other side has multiple imprints of shells, and a round little shell is present, buried in the stone with stone inside, but you can see the crisp edges. But to me, the peice de resistance is a shallow indentation about 1/4 in across, with a 5 pointed star (just single straight lines if you understand what I'm saying), which may be 1mm across!!! There was also a decent size piece of petrified wood, and a cluster of petrified clam shells. There was also a piece of stone, that I think is a piece of marble. It is a true treasure trove.

I am sorry I brought them home, but who knows, someone may have stolen them, and then they wouldn't be treated with the respect that Dave and I will.

nan
"

"With the sea shells, I would be willing to bet the pine cone is the cast of a Trilobite. Just a hunch.
Bill"

"D0 you West Coast folks find fossils in siderite nodules? They are common around here. Siderite is a common mineral associated with geodes, nodules, and ironstone banding. Siderite is very common in the coal fields, where it occurs as a reddish-brown mineral in shale layers, nodules, concretions, and fossil burrows. Commonly, a siderite nodule will have a nucleus of another mineral such as pyrite, sphalerite, or chert. Siderite also occurs in geodes with dolomite and calcite. Siderite becomes magnetic on heating, and alters readily to limonite and goethite."

"Ah yes the cacalites of Salmon Creek. Dave and L:ivy and I think with Don did some digging there and there is a thread plus a report on it some where here. "