by Chris Dorsey | May 15, 2026
For South African Trevor Comins, perfection is a safari on the fly. The beast is dead, but that’s when it becomes dangerous. Forty yards in the sky, the 22-pound spur-winged goose plummets toward my blind like a feathered meteorite. When calculating the lead on the...
by Chris Dorsey | May 6, 2026
You’d think, listening to the loudest voices in the outdoor community lately, that the Boundary Waters had just been handed over to a mining company with a bow on top. Fundraising emails, social posts, and urgent alerts have painted a picture of imminent, irreversible...
by Chris Dorsey | Apr 28, 2026
There is an old understanding in the American West—one that predates wildlife agencies, tag lotteries, and glossy brochures—that the land belongs to all of us. Not in the romantic, abstract sense, but in a very literal one. Millions upon millions of acres across...
by Chris Dorsey | Apr 20, 2026
I’ll admit it plainly: I was among the early and unflinching critics when the National Rifle Association’s internal failures came into public view. I wrote about it, spoke about it, and—like many longtime members—wondered how an institution with such a storied history...
by Chris Dorsey | Mar 24, 2026
The hunt for the tundra’s legendary white bears. In the land where the geese, fox, owls, hares and grouse are white, why should the bears be any different? Head to the western shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay and you’ll find yourself amid the richest polar bear territory...
by Chris Dorsey | Feb 24, 2026
Hook into a 250-pound fish whose ancestors date back 100 million years, and you begin to wonder if you’re reeling a dinosaur through a wormhole—as if you’re about to reveal a beast that doesn’t belong in our epoch. Such are first impressions when sturgeon fishing on...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 28, 2025
In the 1994 classic, “Shawshank Redemption,” Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, delivers the film’s memorable manifesto to Ellis “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman), “Life comes down to a simple choice… get busy living or get busy dying.” For 80-year-old Texas...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 27, 2025
Ryan St. John peers through his binoculars on the shore of Hudson Bay near his home community of Arviat, Nunavut, an Inuit village of 3,000 residents in north central Canada. “There’s another polar bear that’s caught a seal,” he says. The bear is standing 800...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 9, 2025
A recent Denver Post report on the state of affairs in Colorado affirmed what Democrats have seen nationally—that their brand is struggling. Another recent Quinnipiac University poll affirmed the same; the Democrat Party is deeply unpopular nationwide, and...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 28, 2025
Little confirms that you’re the right choice for the Trump Administration quite like an attack piece by the New York Times. For Idahoan Michael Boren, an appointment to serve as Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment, a job that would put...
