by Chris Dorsey | Nov 17, 2020
A crowd-sourced film that celebrates life in the heartland is coming to a theater near you. The ideological fault lines running between the coasts and the American heartland, turning red and blue to code words, are manifesting in everything from politics and religion...
by Chris Dorsey | Nov 7, 2020
Wherever the currents of time find Pallot, you can bet the fish will be biting and he’ll make room in the boat for you—whether in person or vicariously. What could be cooler than that? For 15 seasons a lanky poet with the central casting name of Flip Pallot poled a...
by Chris Dorsey | Nov 2, 2020
One conservation organization warns aging forests could spell doom for many species. With forest fires raging across the West, there’s been a renewed call to reexamine our nation’s forest management policies. Nearly 46,000 wildfires have burned more than eight million...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 21, 2020
For many, catching a bonefish on the fly is tantamount to turning the saltwater flats to holy water. As a fly fisherman, I feel naked when I wade a saltwater flat to cast for bonefish. I try and play the part of motionless heron but nevertheless feel so exposed in the...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 5, 2020
With the grouse moors covered in blooming heather, it’s once again time for the annual Sport of Kings: driven grouse shooting. With its abundance of heather and red grouse, Yorkshire’s undulating moors echo with gunfire each August as artfully engraved shotguns...
by Chris Dorsey | Sep 30, 2020
The decline of Montana’s rivers foretells a new battle brewing between businesses that depend on fishing tourism and the state’s ranchers. I’ll never forget the first time I met the Big Hole River. The relationship started on one of those crisp Montana autumn days,...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 25, 2020
Colorado Initiative Latest Effort to Manage Wildlife Through Public Opinion In 1990, California voters passed Proposition 114 which banned mountain lion hunting in that state and set into motion scores of similar ballot measures across the country, usurping the...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 24, 2020
Argentina’s vast Ibera Swamp is an other-worldly setting for one of the planet’s great game fish. Argentina’s seemingly endless Ibera Wetlands span some 7,000-square miles, the second largest marshland in the world, behind only Brazil’s great Pantanal. It is a...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 14, 2020
What’s one man’s wild hog overpopulation problem is swine dining for another It’s so dark that I can’t see the end of the rifle I’m holding. Ahead is the enemy, a herd of perhaps 20 wild hogs that we can hear rooting, grunting and snorting like a rugby scrum. I peer...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 3, 2020
For internationally acclaimed wildlife artist John Banovich, it’s about saving the planet one portrait at a time. It’s a good bet that wherever you find wildlife painter John Banovich, there will be a captivating view nearby. The globe-trotting artist is a study of a...
