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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 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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blog BY chris_hunt ON October 4 - 0 COMMENTS
A thousand miles...
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If you think about it, most of us won't fish that many stream miles in our entire lives. But, with help from Orvis and its customers, we hope to open up 1,000 miles of habitat for trout and salmon all across America by making some simple fixes to our rivers and streams. Culverts--those big pipes [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Two natives, two friends, two streams
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  by Tom Reed New country and old friends. A foundation, a beginning. An idea. Each year we’d each pick a stream on our borders, a thin blue line of water splashing from high mountain hold in country without roads, and few trails. If it were easy, we thought, anybody could do it and the fishing [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Philosophy of the sporting life: A meditation on why.
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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.   There was a summer I spent as a wild child in the mountains of Iowa. There are no mountains [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Tis the Season of the Sportsman
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  The wind came up quite early this morning. It rus­tled through the trees out­side my win­dow, gen­tly thump­ing the blinds as it con­tin­ued through the streets. It was a sub­tle sign, but a sign nonetheless. It’s fall. We’ve been see­ing small hints here lately – small twinges of gold in the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON September 21 - 3 COMMENTS
Right call for brookies on the Tellico
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ORV damage in the Tellico drainage was excessive. Photo courtesy of Wild South. Earlier this week, a federal judge upheld a U.S. Forest Service decision to keep off-road vehicles out of sensitive native brook trout habitat in the Tellico River drainage in the Nantahala National Forest--excessive [ READ MORE... ]
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