With a decent weather forecast for the next few days and with our statewide opening day of trout season not kicking in until ...

Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum My interest in sheds began many years ago during the first week of archery season ... shed antler but the entire skull and skeleton of a massive eight-point buck.

In 1805, Jacob Fidelis Ackermann, the first chairholder of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, bought the two skeletons that he believed belonged to Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas.

As players collect bones during their travels, they can then build skeletons from them however they wish--with "millions of possibilities for unique species" according to the official NMS website ...