Lawless Island

Open deer season provides Gary Muehlberger with an opportunity to stockpile meat for the season ahead. Stuart Andrews and Dave Squibb fish for halibut. Curly Leech trains a new dog. [National Geographic]

Danger lurks around every corner for Port Protection residents. Mary Miller hunts deer while being menaced by wolves. Curly Leach contends with grueling weather. Gary Muehlberger faces violent seas to fill his freezer.[National Geographic]

Gary Muehlberger goes on a wood hunt. Felling a huge dead pine, he is set for wood for the whole winter. Curly Leach tries to get some geese with his trainee dog, but the training is a work in progress. [National Geographic]

Sam Carlson and Dave Squibb build a crusher attachment for a log splitting machine to recycle aluminium cans. Getting near the end of the duck season, Gary Muehlberger goes hunting in the hope of bagging a few. [National Geographic]

A world of beauty with the security of community without the constraints of bureaucracy.[National Geographic]

Gary Muehlberger heads into the forest to set his mink traps for a late harvest. Mary Miller heads up her trail to clean up falling trees for safety and for fire wood. [National Geographic]

Sam Carlson needs to take down trees threatening his home without damaging any of his buildings. Gary Muehlberger goes on the hunt for some mushrooms and then harvests his garden before the freeze. [National Geographic]

Curly Leach needs firewood, and unable to get his old truck started in the freezing conditions, takes to the boat. Sam Carlson prepares his traps for the winter fur season. Gary Muehlberger feels the need for some clams.[National Geographic]

Now in mid winter, all hunting in Port protection is closed except for trapping and Gary Muehlberger ventures out to set his. To stretch out his meat stock, Sam Carlson repairs his smoker, makes pork and venison sausages[National Geographic]

Stuart Andrews, and Dave Squibb pull out the fire boat to attend to a controlled burn of a derelict home in Port Protection. Sam Carlson heads out to help Gary Muehlberger with a boat repair. [National Geographic]