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Hunting in South Dakota with Carter Johnson, who never wore gloves despite the snow and ice, 1996.
Hurricane Fran struck our home in Fuquay-Varina, NC, September 6, 1996.
Rauch family at their home. L-R, standing: Jane and Bill, Pete, Dottie, and Henry. Seated: Carol with Heidi and expecting Heather. 1973.
Dad (63) in his boat with a jack crevalle, Ft. Myers, FL, 1974.
Dave Larson with Pete and his big mule deer buck in Alberta in 1972
Pete, Carol, and Heidi on her 3rd birthday in Hot Springs, SD, 1972.
Pete and Bud with the ruffed grouse he pointed in the upper part of the Michigan Lower Peninsula
Pete’s beloved Grandma Dominy, who, on his 7th birthday, gave him a Bible in which she wrote: “Bring every area of your life into obedience with God.” The older I get, the more I strive to honor her wish. From her home before she passed away in East Hampton, Long Island, NY, 1949.
Joe Denig went to Pete’s German wirehaired pointer, Peg, who pointed a chukar (game bird) at John Holland’s shooting preserve. Glade Hill, VA, 2018.
Pete with his first lake trout, taken from Paxton Lake, Alaska, on a backcountry trip with Cleve, 2022.
Alaska scene from the Kenai Peninsula Highway, 2009.
Traveling to Argentina with Gaylen Byker as his guest for a several-day hunt for eared doves, pigeons, and perdix, 2006.
Cleve Cowles expertly navigated the Kenai River in his Moravia raft, 2009.
Sasquatch visited our camp on the Neuse River, NC, 2009.
On our best day, we caught nine sockeye salmon, all on flies Pete tied, 2009.
Pete with gobbler at the Herbert Stoddard Laboratory steps at Tall Timbers Research station with guide Shane Wellendorf and host Bill Palmer. Tallahaassee, FL. 2010
Cleve and Pete with Cleve's magnificent first spring gobbler, Fairystone Wildlife Management Area, Virginia, 2011.
Farewell firepit visit of Pete, Jim Miller, Chuck Bates and Clif, because Jim was in poor health. We were members of Gray Beards Hunting Club, which faded away after Jim's passing from Covid. Hermosa, VA 2021
Pete, Chuck Bates, and Jim Miller with birds he called up at Graybeards Hunt Camp, Hermosa, VA. 2017
Grandson Roger (5) helps his grandpa grind venison. Eden, NC, 2008.
Pete and Rich Noble at their retirement celebration in Louisburg, NC, 2003.
Traditional NC State Fisheries and Wildlife swan hunt. Pete kneeling in the center with Timber. Photo by Tom Kwak, 2010. 
Rich Noble, Coordinator of Fisheries and Wildlife at NC State University. Mentor and hunting/fishing buddy. Raleigh, NC, 1990.
The great dog Timber retrieved a tundra swan in eastern NC. Photo by Karen Phillips, 2006.
Virginia hunting and fishing buddies Harry Steeves, Pete, and Clif Rexrode, Waynesboro, VA. Photo by Ron Blackburn, 1988. 
Homegrown and cut family Christmas tree: Heather (16), Holly (13), and Pete (47), Ironto, VA, 1989.
National Wild Turkey Federation officers—Vice Chairman Shawn Viguerie, CEO Rob Keck, Chairman Gene Denten, and Secretary Pete—at the Nilo Farms Shooting Preserve, IL, where the board conducted serious business and enjoyed plenty of fun, 1989. 
30-year anniversary of fishing buddies Robert Dewell, Fred LeBrun, and Pete at the Covered Bridge Campground in the Catskills near Roscoe, NY, 1987. 
Clif Rexrode with his first spring wild turkey gobbler and Pete with his bird at the Rexrode homestead in the Virginia mountains, 1980. 
U.S. Army memorabilia: 4th Infantry Division, 212th Artillery Group, captain's bars, 6th Army Commendation Medal, dog tag. Ft. Lewis, WA, 1969.
Pete was fascinated by a beetle in a bottle—a hint of a pattern in his life. The scene was in East Hampton, NY, 1943.
Pete's favorite childhood book, The Little Engine That Could, was read over and over to him by his mother in Moores Mill, NY, 1944.
A self-portrait done as part of a course in freehand illustration at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1963. 
Evening sunsets on the Mission Mountains in the Rockies were enjoyed from our quarters at the National Bison Range.
Peter married Carol Rauch on Finley Point on Flathead Lake at the University of Montana Biological Station on July 25, 1965
Our first rental house cost us $65/month in Milltown, MT, 1966.
Pete's first pickup, a 1946 Chevy—a $50 fixer-upper bought from a logger.

Wildlife Photography

Coyote on the prowel
Prairie dog at his burrow. There was a 'dog town' at WICA
Cock grouse fighting on their common boundary
Cock grouse walking on their territory boundaries
A cock sharp tailed grouse puffed up in his territory on the lek (breeding ground). Note the yellow air sack above his eye.
Two sharp tailed grouse in the prairie
A mule deer buck courts a doe
A mature mule deer buck
The herd bull with his harem in the rut
Dominant territorial buck displaying raised hair and broadside walk to the interloper
Dominant buck drives the interloper off of his territory
Two territorial bucks broadside walk their boundaries with does watching
Two bucks fighting, the one on the right is losing and was probably gored
Sibling young of the year in their first autumn
The buck courts a doe
The doe is not ready to be bred
The territorial buck herds does further into his territory
A majestic bull elk
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Bucks touch horns
Bucks about to touch horns
Buck on left shows side of his head, expressing dominance
Bucks face off at the border
Territorial buck puffs up hair and walks broadside to rival
Then defactes on his line
The buck urinates on his boundary
Dominant, territorial buck paws the boundary
Herd of batchelor, non-territorial bucks
Doe eats her fawn's feces to remove odor
Doe with young fawn nursing
Fawn seeks hiding place
Fawn hiding from eagles by lying near dead grass
Fawn hiding near bare earth to evade eagles
Fawn low profile to escape detection by coyotes
An adorable newborn fawn
Territory defence begins in spring
Buck with herd of does on his territory
Territorial buck at WICA, named by Pete as Near Perfect
Bison herd at WICA
Mixed grass prairie and ponderosa pines at Wind Cave NP
Where is Wind Cave National Park?
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