Coalition to Preserve and Grow http://www.preservegrowme.org Sat, 19 May 2012 01:45:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How many deer in the preserve? http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/how-many-deer-in-the-preserve/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/how-many-deer-in-the-preserve/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 01:45:08 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/how-many-deer-in-the-preserve/ Continue reading →]]> to determine the number of deer in a game preserve, a conservationist catches 307 deer tags them, and then lets them loose. Later, 380 deer are caught; 190 of them are tagged. how many deer are in the preserve?.

(380/190)*307 = 614 <——-

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/how-many-deer-in-the-preserve/feed/ 2 How do I preserve meat without a fridge? http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-do-i-preserve-meat-without-a-fridge/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-do-i-preserve-meat-without-a-fridge/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 01:26:08 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-do-i-preserve-meat-without-a-fridge/ Continue reading →]]> After I cut up the meat into slices, how do I preserve it? Do I smoke and then sugar, or sugar and then smoke, or smoke and then salt, or salt and then smoke? Are there other ways to preserve the meat?

You ask how to preserve meat without a refrigeration.

Meat has been preserved for hundreds of years before the advent of refrigeration. Today the most popular ways of preserving meat include making jerky, which is basically a dehydration method, and the age old art of sausage making. Dehydrating meat for jerky and then storing it in an airtight package will keep the meat fresh for later use and is easy to pack. Sausage utilizes hog casings to create an airtight environment where spiced meat can be preserved without refrigeration for future enjoyment. Both methods allow you to experiment with herbs and seasonings to your liking so you can create your own customized preserved meats without the need for refrigeration.

Instructions

Make sure you trim as much fat as you can off of the meat you are using to prevent it from spoiling too soon. Fat is harder to dry and may store moisture in your meat that will cause it to spoil.

Marinate the trimmed meat in vinegar or in a marinade with salt to cure it. Let it sit in a cool, dry place overnight to really absorb the vinegar or marinade into the innermost parts of the meat.

Roll the meat in the herbs and seasonings of your choice. Herbs used include rosemary, thyme, black pepper, sage and parsley.

If you are making beef jerky, use small strips and load them into the tray of your food dehydrator so that they do not touch each other. It should take about 10 hours to fully dehydrate your meat.

If you are making sausage, you should load the meat into a meat grinder after it has been spiced. Pack the ground meat into the hog casing as tightly as possible and then twist the casing to make separate pieces, tying each one with twine and then wrapping it all in wax paper. Use natural hog casings for fresh sausage, although if you are using smoked meat, collagen or fibrous casings will do just fine.

Tips & Warnings
Marinating a second time in just salt will further dehydrate your meat, but may diminish the flavor of the vinegar or marinade that you use.

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-do-i-preserve-meat-without-a-fridge/feed/ 4 How should I preserve my oil on glass painting? http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-should-i-preserve-my-oil-on-glass-painting/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-should-i-preserve-my-oil-on-glass-painting/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 01:19:32 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-should-i-preserve-my-oil-on-glass-painting/ Continue reading →]]> As a final project for a painting class, I make 3 oil paintings on panes of glass. The paint is dry now but I would like to preserve them. Is there a kind of epoxy resin that I could pour over top or is there something else I could put on them?
I am planning on giving one of them away as a gift and I don’t want her to have to put oil on the painting every so often.

Any advice would help. Thanks!

If your instructor assigned the project, ask him or her for suggestions on preserving the art work.

Are you planning on framing the art work? If so, ask the framer their recommendation. They may suggest to frame the piece under glass.

You must wait 6 months to a year until your oil painting is suitably dry before using any permanent preservative; yes, it takes that long. There are two or three products you might consider with which to varnish the art. Although I don’t see why they wouldn’t work, you should do a test on a separate piece. Try one of the Grumbacher Spray Varnishes, see http://www.dickblick.com/products/grumbacher-spray-varnishes , or Grumbacher Damar Spray Varnish, see http://www.dickblick.com/products/grumbacher-damar-spray-varnish , or Soluvar, see http://www.dickblick.com/products/liquitex-soluvar-varnish .

Best of Luck

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-should-i-preserve-my-oil-on-glass-painting/feed/ 1 How can I preserve my important documents on internet? Is there any facility to keep documents in any website? http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-can-i-preserve-my-important-documents-on-internet-is-there-any-facility-to-keep-documents-in-any-website/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-can-i-preserve-my-important-documents-on-internet-is-there-any-facility-to-keep-documents-in-any-website/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:57:27 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-can-i-preserve-my-important-documents-on-internet-is-there-any-facility-to-keep-documents-in-any-website/ Continue reading →]]> How can I preserve my important documents on internet? Is there any facility to keep documents in any website?

There’s loads of these places around, here’s probably the safest free ones….

Google Docs – http://docs.google.com – 1Gb of free space – 1Mb to 20Mb individual file size limit depending on type
Dropbox – http://dropbox.com – 2Gb of free space – 300Mb individual file size limit
SkyDrive – http://skydrive.com – 25Gb of free space – 50Mb individual file size limit
Adrive – http://adrive.com – 50Gb of free space – 2Gb individual file size limit
Mediafire – http://www.mediafire.com – unlimited free space? – 200Mb individual file size limit

Do not put your files on any site known to contain a lot of illegal software and other files. People who used Megaupload for storing their own files found this out the hard way. Unfortunately for some the only copy of their files were on Megaupload’s servers when they were shut down.

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/preserve/how-can-i-preserve-my-important-documents-on-internet-is-there-any-facility-to-keep-documents-in-any-website/feed/ 5 Is it possible to preserve a Bird of Paradise flower? http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/is-it-possible-to-preserve-a-bird-of-paradise-flower/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/is-it-possible-to-preserve-a-bird-of-paradise-flower/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:00:32 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/is-it-possible-to-preserve-a-bird-of-paradise-flower/ Continue reading →]]> I have a Bird of Paradise from some funeral flowers and i want to preserve it somehow, dry it out or press it somehow. What is the best way to do this?

You can’t press something shaped like that and air drying doesn’t work very well either. You can try silica(get it from and arts and crafts store) or freeze drying. Many bridal shops do freeze drying but it is not inexpensive.

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/is-it-possible-to-preserve-a-bird-of-paradise-flower/feed/ 3 Are you afraid of death or the process of dying? http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/are-you-afraid-of-death-or-the-process-of-dying/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/are-you-afraid-of-death-or-the-process-of-dying/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:55:39 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/are-you-afraid-of-death-or-the-process-of-dying/ Continue reading →]]> If you knew that death was just the beginning of your journey into the spiritual world, would you still be afraid of it? Or is it just that we want to self-preserve and don’t like the idea of letting go of the physical world and leaving others behind to grieve? Or it it the potential pain that disease or an accident might put us through just before death that we are fearful of? What are your insights?

I hope you’ll excuse my long-winded tendency, but you’ve got me thinking.

I’d like to say that there is a reason that survival has been rated as the number one most important thing to human beings, but I can’t really wrap my mind around the exact motive. What is it that makes our lives so precious to hold on to? Is it our ego? Our inseparable sense of body and mind(spirit/self)? Is it that everything that we have ever known (or can recall knowing – to leave room for the argument of past lives and reincarnation) has been transmitted to us through our own eyes and by way of our own perception? Everything I base my answer on is pure speculation by way of personal experience and searching. I can’t begin to touch all the variables.

The entire universe as we know it is nothing … so infinitesimal compared to a human life and his/her ego (awareness of self). We are so very self involved, which is natural, because our entire awareness of this universe is from our own relative perspective. We are not capable of grasping the picture as a whole. We cannot look at the world as one and make sense of it’s every working. As it is, we rely solely on our own senses to guide us through life. Our own relative experience.

Tell a kid that there are children just like him/her struggling to survive in another country, and they may do so much as to bat an eyelash. Sure some will have genuine emotion for the less fortunate, but how many actually do anything about it? Is this kid really effected by this knowledge?

Take the same kid and spit gum deep in his/her hair causing him/her to get a ridiculous hair cut and become the laughing stock of their school (or publicly humiliate them in some other trivial way) and they suddenly have quite a bit of grief to deal with. They have a personal dilemma. Something they can actually feel and be effected by, even though the situation is horribly mundane in comparison.

It is as if each human is their own little world. Their own life is of the upmost importance.

Yet, what is to be said about the self-sacrificing individual? Do they hold no value for themselves or do they place their own identity in the wellbeing of another interest? a cause, a community, religion, their country, an idea or another human being. Even when we ourselves are not afraid of death, or the (uncountable) processes through which death comes, we will often be concerned when faced with another’s demise.

I think the biggest part of this issue is what lies beyong the curtain. What awaits us after death cannot be ascertained by fact. There is no answer to the great mystery of our existence or what is in store for us after all is said and done. It is our lack of understanding that gives birth to the fear of death. Our daunting absence of the truth of things that cannot be studied on this physical earth.

Knowledge is something that has been universally sought after throughout all of history; considered by most a great treasure. What is unknown is to be faced with either caution or acceptance of ignorance.; like a test of great courage, or a blind leap of faith towards what cannot be determined.

It is through the creation of a ‘plan’ or an idea that gives birth to the middle ground: philosophy. A belief. Belief in a specific ending so that one can ignorantly venture into the dark and murky without feeling blind. Most commonly this philosophy has to do with life after life, a new world, a spiritual initiation.

Although I am not a religious person, I do have beliefs. Whether by upbringing or instinct it is my understanding that dying is natural and is something that needs to happen whether science finally cures the ‘disease’ called death or not. So in answer to your question, am I afraid of death or the process of dying? I’d say the process holds little interest for me, and as for dying…

I am terrified, and very much intrigued.

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/are-you-afraid-of-death-or-the-process-of-dying/feed/ 15 How do you preserve a roosters comb for taxidermy? http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/how-do-you-preserve-a-roosters-comb-for-taxidermy/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/how-do-you-preserve-a-roosters-comb-for-taxidermy/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:46:41 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/how-do-you-preserve-a-roosters-comb-for-taxidermy/ Continue reading →]]> Needing to know how to preserve the roosters comb. We are trying a little experiment and mounting a barred rock rooster for my boyfriends mother but we have no idea how to preserve the comb without it having to be freeze dried. Is there anything else we could possibly do ourselves to preserve it?

Well, I’m no expert but nobody else has answered either. Just speaking from general knowledge and I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. I don’t believe you CAN do what you want to do. Taxidermy in general takes off the hide/skin of the animal and tans it, and then stuffs it with inert material and uses glass eyes and the like. Anything organic, like cartilage (your rooster’s comb) can’t be used because it will rot. You can preserve it in formaldehyde, but that’s in a jar. What they do with fish, like marlin, is mold them and cast them in fiberglass and then just paint them. Usually they will add the beak from the original fish, after it dries out. You could freeze dry your comb, probably you could just air dry it for a couple of weeks, too, but then it will shrink and probably not look like the comb should look. Just cast it or even carve it in balsa wood, and paint it. I think I’m right, anyway.

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/how-do-you-preserve-a-roosters-comb-for-taxidermy/feed/ 1 Setting out birds in a game preserve? http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/setting-out-birds-in-a-game-preserve/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/setting-out-birds-in-a-game-preserve/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:57:07 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/setting-out-birds-in-a-game-preserve/ Continue reading →]]> On the game preserves where you buy the birds and they are set out in a field for you, do they do anything to the birds first before setting them on the ground? I thought the bird handlers did something so that they wouldn’t fly off, just stay tight until they were flushed. The birds in question are chukars.

i was taught a trick with quail that should work with chukars too. kneel down in the spot you want to plant the bird, wrap your entire hand around the birds body and leave his head and neck sticking out the top of your hand. hold the bird firmly and gently and spin it around like you were twirling a cain, or a steelers terrible towel, or like you were twirling a lasso, only in front of you instead of over your head. spin them about 8-10 times and stick them in the cover. do it all in one motion without a pause beween the spinning and the burying in cover.

the guy called it "dizzying" the bird and its worked for me. although i only use this for training dogs and have never tested it past about 45 minutes, but quail will stay put that long anyway

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/setting-out-birds-in-a-game-preserve/feed/ 2 What way to preserve hair sample for cloning ? http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/what-way-to-preserve-hair-sample-for-cloning/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/what-way-to-preserve-hair-sample-for-cloning/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:10:41 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/what-way-to-preserve-hair-sample-for-cloning/ Continue reading →]]> My dog died and i am wondering what would be a practical and inexpensive way to preserve a hair sample for cloning purposes in case such procedures will become widely accessible one day in the future. Thank you.

Cloning requires cells with intact genetic material. The process requires a complete diploid set of intact chromosomes with their associated proteins as they exist in a living cell. At this time we do not know how to assemble functional chromosomes and their proteins and the hair’s cells have died so the cellular content is degraded.

Any DNA recovered from hair root would be broken and incomplete a very short time after your dog passed away. It would be sufficiently intact to get genetic fingerprints but not to clone.

I am sorry you miss your dog but it is not possible to clone from DNA that has degraded.

The other problem is the new dog would not be your beloved pet, it would be a new individual with its own personality.
Missy was cloned and the two clones are neither alike not like their cell donor Missy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/garden/01clones.html?pagewanted=all

]]> http://www.preservegrowme.org/the-preserve/what-way-to-preserve-hair-sample-for-cloning/feed/ 3 To determine the number of deer in a game preserve, a conservationist catches 402 deer, tags them and lets? http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/to-determine-the-number-of-deer-in-a-game-preserve-a-conservationist-catches-402-deer-tags-them-and-lets/ http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/to-determine-the-number-of-deer-in-a-game-preserve-a-conservationist-catches-402-deer-tags-them-and-lets/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:16:34 +0000 admin http://www.preservegrowme.org/game-preserve/to-determine-the-number-of-deer-in-a-game-preserve-a-conservationist-catches-402-deer-tags-them-and-lets/ Continue reading →]]> To determine the number of deer in a game preserve, a conservationist catches 402 deer, tags them and lets them loose. Later, 732 deer are caught; 244 of them are tagged. How many deer are in the preserve?

The answer should be you can’t find an answer with that information. If not, its 1090
732-244+402

But there could b deer that weren’t caught so you can’t find the actual number

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