FILED IN: The Sporting Life
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Hunt, The Sporting Life
Full disclosure: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool duck hunter from the Midwest. Nothing makes me happier than a mud-stanky Lab’s tail beating out a 4/4 rhythm on my leg with the clouds......
Filed In: Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
Tucked into Lawyer’s Canyon along the Clearwater River in the northcentral stem of Idaho is a haven of outdoor diversity—Flying B Ranch. “The ranch consists of a little over 5,000......
Filed In: Craft, People, The Sporting Life
As a pioneering wildlife biologist, eloquent spokesman for the ethic of land management, insightful ecologist, best-selling author—in various editions, A Sand County Almanac has sold more than two m...
Filed In: Bird, Francolin, Hunt, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
We leave scars on the land that never quite go away. Some change the land for better and some for worse. Farmers plow, plant, and build. Miners peel back the......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Memories, Sport, Stories, The Sporting Life
It all started in the early 1950s. Back then, English pointers were the preferred bird dogs south of the Mason-Dixon Line, English setters were the grouse dogs of the North......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Hunt, The Sporting Life
In the first blush of a fine spring morning, Linda Baker, director of the Upper Green River Alliance, and I disembarked from her truck in Wyoming’s 7-million-acre Upper Green River......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, Prairie Chicken, The Sporting Life
Say “sharp-tailed grouse” to an old sodbuster and he’ll tip back his wear-stained, weathered, wide-brim Stetson, spit out a chew of Copenhagen, look you in the eye and then to......
Filed In: Dog, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life
In the last two issues, we’ve examined gastric bloat and torsion, hypoglycemia, hypothermia, and heat stroke. In the last part of this special series, we’ll look at poisoning. At 14......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Each year, a certain autumn day breaks and slips over the Connecticut River, covering the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont with morning light. It is the beginning of a reunion for......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
I met Mike when I moved back to River City after completing medical training. He sold medical equipment–everything one needed to set up practice. A quintessential salesman, loquacious and voluble......
