by Craig Springer | May 27, 2025
Sharing a turkey hunt with a daughter who’s growing up too fast.
by Craig Springer | Sep 2, 2024
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in far southwestern Arizona is remote beyond compare, yet afforded one family a most uncommon sheep hunting experience. Autumn is for remembering. The last light of summer yields to the first beautiful days of fall. This time of...
by Craig Springer | Jan 26, 2024
We were transients moving from one epoch in life to another, but the little stream and the woods and fields it drained live larger than one can imagine.
by Craig Springer | Dec 6, 2023
Rio Grande cutthroat trout in New Mexico rebounding thanks to private lands conservation.
by Craig Springer | Jan 18, 2023
Once barren of elk, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge now affords once-in-a-lifetime hunting opportunities.
by Craig Springer | Feb 26, 2021
Hunting is paradoxical: Immersing one’s self in a hunt that could end in death is life-affirming.
by Craig Springer | Feb 4, 2020
Green Bay, New York, Chicago, San Fran and LaRue, Ohio: what do they have in common? NFL franchises. But it was the rural Ohio team that was perhaps the most unusual. Its legacy lives on in the halftime show—a show rooted in marketing hunting dogs. LaRue native...
by Craig Springer | Jul 31, 2019
The past is indeed present at the D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery and Archives in Spearfish, South Dakota. The facility is dedicated to preserving images, documents and objects related to fisheries conservation. In fact, the archive is located at one of the...
by Craig Springer | Jun 25, 2019
Alligator gar reach an enormous 13 feet long and fatten to a plump 300 pounds. Lake Texoma lies over the Texas – Oklahoma state line. This boundary water is enormous. Denison Dam backs up the Red and Washita rivers for miles. The swollen arms of several tributary...
by Craig Springer | Apr 25, 2019
Zayne Wagner has a whole lot going for him. The grade-school boy loves the outdoors, fishing and hunting, and is often a shadow to his dad and grandpa along the waters and in the woods and fields of eastern Oklahoma. And he lives not too far from Sequoyah National...