Gary Fowler
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- Joined
- Jun 23, 2008
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- Location
- Bismarck Arkansas
- Tractor
- 2009 Kubota RTV 900, 2009 Kubota B26 TLB & 2010 model LS P7010
Great shots Gary! Looks like a nice climate. Did everything go smoothly? Any wild stories to keep us entertained?
Nothing too wild, but we did find some bodies in the plateau. A few months before I got there they found 2 soldier that had been shot in the head and left unburied. They got the authorities out and removed the bones for proper burial.
While I was there we found 6 more partial buried in a mass grave(photos). Looks like these were as late a 1998 as per dated concrete in the vicinity.
About the only other excitement was the 5 foot cobra that was found crawling around on of the office sites and killed (no photo of that) and the large cat tracks and snake tracks fond in the loose dust of the work site. No idea of the type of cat but prints looked to about the size of an American bobcat. Snake tracks were prevalent and some very large at about 4" wide on the belly so likely a big boa constrictor. We did have a large on frequenting the gate guards at night for a while that they claimed was 6 meters long but after we cleared all the brush and grass for 100 feet around the tents the snake wasn't seen again. Several Secretary birds were seen in the area and they keep the small snakes in check (check these out on Google). I have distant photo of one that was over 4 feet tall (photo) . To put into perspective the size, the grass was more than knee high which was not even up to the birds body.