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GETTING LOST AT URICH

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It's a wonder there's any game in these woods at all bein's it's wicked wilderness so thick with brush you can't see past thirty yards..   Big deer abound in river bottoms and its hillsides, often coming into the upper fields to feed at night, there at Urich Conservation Area . Flocks of turkey roost in the oaks and tall sycamore trees in the surrounding flood-prone bottoms that more resembles a swamp than a creek. We were after those birds. A few years back in the fall, I guess my husband just wanted to show me around so he motioned me to stay close -- we didn't split up -- alright by me, I didn't want to wander by myself till I knew the area better. T oo easy to get lost in t hose bottoms, gave me the willies.   We hiked down the steep, bare path winding into the creek basin, shotguns in hand,  turkey hunting in the swamp during a dry spell.  Obviously my husband had hunted this before; Ed knew the way, was surefooted, not slowin