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blog BY Josh Duplechian ON November 6 - 0 COMMENTS
In Our Autumn 
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By: Ty Churchwell I didn’t hesitate for a second when the call came in. “Ty, it turns out Larry is unable to go to Wyoming next week to fish the North Platte. Can you fill the empty spot in a boat?” My father barely finished his sentence when my resounding reply of “yes” went out through the magic... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 30 - 1 COMMENTS
Brothers 
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  Brothers The first two days of Mark’s elk hunt were not great. It was hot. It was windy. There were people everywhere. And every one of them had a pickup truck, a trailer full of ATVs and a case of beer. I’ve seen fewer people and less alcohol at Wyoming Cowboy football games. I was beginning to... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Sportsmen to D.C.: You Must Honor this Place 
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  By Toner Mitchell On October 25, Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall of New Mexico wrote a letter to President Obama requesting that he exercise his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate the approximately 235,000 acre Rio Grande del Norte area in north central New Mexico as a National... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 17 - 2 COMMENTS
Frost Warning 
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  Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series by members of TU’s Sportsmen’s Conservation Project. For more, visit www.oursportingheritage.org, a site dedicated to protecting our backcountry resources. By Corey Fisher The weatherman kept going on about temps dipping below freezing and tomatoes... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 11 - 0 COMMENTS
Elk Hunting for Chukar 
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  Elk Hunting for Chukar Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series by members of TU’s Sportsmen’s Conservation Project. For more, visit www.oursportingheritage.org, a site dedicated to protecting our backcountry resources. I love elk hunting, the massive loads, and the crazy weather, too hot... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON October 11 - 0 COMMENTS
Alone in the Dark 
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For a closet introvert who can fake the opposite on command, time alone is like being plugged into a battery charger. If only I had a USB port at the back of my neck. Then I wouldn't need to disappear for hours at a time to replenish what the real world drains (on second thought, when that port is... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
Searching 
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  By Greg McReynolds, Sportsmen's Conservation Project I slam the door and the world contracts into a space no bigger than a refrigerator box lit by the cold blue light of the radio's LCD screen. The numbers on the dash say 432 miles to empty. I'll do that and more before day breaks over the... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
The apprentice 
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  They call him “The Apprentice” because he has been my personal assistant for all things hunting and fishing since he was knee high to a Shetland pony. He went on his first elk hunt when he was not quite six months old, wearing his first snowsuit and riding on mom’s back as we packed three elk off... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
Legislation that works: The Wyoming Range Legacy Act 
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  I know, I know... legislation that works? No doubt you're as sore as we are from the political whupping playing out on every public media channel known to man and given the tenor of those commercials, the LAST thing you're apt to believe is that there's something coming out of Washington that is... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
The Feather Dance 
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  The whistling crescendo of rushing air was not only startling, it was almost unnerving.  Like an eerie formation of B-17s, they loomed into sight, straight on over the ponderosas.  Twelve o’clock high, as they say.  No time to gawk or even take cover; I needed to make good on my promise. We who... [ READ MORE... ]
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Submitted by fish4budzSun, 2011-09-04 08:41