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What can we do to help preserve and protect the fire towers that many of us enjoy hiking to?

Let's find out!

Hope everybody's out here getting ready for the weekend.

Let me apologize in advance if I sound a little nasally or sniffly.

It's that time of year where my allergies kick in and I cut the grass earlier today and I'm paying for it.

But anyway, here we go.

Let's talk about ticks.

Isn't that a pleasant topic?

Ticks.

They're out there and they're out there in a raging force this year.

We need to protect ourselves.

There's many tick-borne illnesses and like other things in the forest that maybe could cause harm to us,

let's not paralyze ourselves into the fear of getting a tick-borne disease but protect ourselves and protect ourselves with knowledge.

So just very quickly and I'm not going to turn this into an episode about the different types of protections

and the pros and cons of different sprays and lotions and all of that.

I'm just going to simply break this down into...

Put some bugs right on.

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