Florida’s Proposed Bear Hunt Pits Science Versus Emotion
After years of bear population increases and growing numbers of human-bear conflicts, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted 4-1 last May to open a limited bear hunt for the first time since 2015. Not surprisingly, the proposed season has...
Sporting Classics TV is Back!
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey returns to Outdoor Channel next week! The first episode of 2025 is a pursuit of Scotland’s ultimate sporting quest – the MacNab – where one must take a stag, a brace of grouse, and a salmon in one day. The series...
Proposed Land Sale Pits Senate Republicans Against Key Constituency
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill suddenly turned ugly for America’s 60 million hunters and anglers after Utah Senator Mike Lee proposed selling up to three million acres of federal land in the West. Sportsmen and women are traditionally among the most reliable...
Sasquatch in Arctic Alaska
Long before I came to Alaska, I had been fascinated with the folklore and reports associated with the Abominable Snowman, Yeti, Sasquatch and Bigfoot. As a senior in high school I wrote a term paper on the legendary wild men that had been reported from so many places...
A Company of Gentlemen Adventurers
The huge beast literally ripped off Pickering’s head.
The Old Man’s Leopard and the Omen
It had to be an evil omen. The first glow of the sun eased out the night and pinked the peaks of the majestic Water Berg Range. Towering mountains, like a series of huge waves about to crash onto the land below and a crumbling old stone house guarded by flat-topped...
The Homecoming
Returning to his favorite squirrel woods after 40 years, he would rediscover the land and a few things about himself. Dank black pools of standing water enveloped the timber, mostly oak and hickory. The trees were massive in their maturity, casting the woodlot and its...
The Bear Slayer
A hunter extraordinaire, Ben Lilly was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the greatest bear-slayers of his time.
Surviving a ‘Hurricane’ Moose Hunt
The muddy waters swept to our armpits.