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We are rapidly approaching my favorite holiday: Thanksgiving.

It’s a day to give thanks for all of our blessings. Then there is the hunting. Now, I am not a dyed-in-the-wool hunter. I love to hunt, but more so I love to get out in nature and be able to take a few moments just to soak in God’s creation and abundance.

I have a place to hunt that is just the most beautiful spot to me. It is the place that my great-great-grandfather homesteaded. He was foresighted enough to plant trees and haul water to them to get them started. Somewhere in a box I have the patent that President Teddy Roosevelt s...