Mule Deer Adventures

Mule Deer Adventures

A superlative trophy reminds us that killing doesn’t make someone a hunter. The winter’s first storm had busted out of the Arctic like a death row inmate with nothing to lose. For three days it ran roughshod along both flanks of the Canadian Rockies, emptying highways...
Hunting Blinds From 1960-2020

Hunting Blinds From 1960-2020

Luke Clayton and Larry Weishuhn reflect upon just how much deer stands have changed since the sixties when they both began hunting deer. I was recently recording “Campfire Talk,” the weekly radio segment that Larry Weishuhn (aka “Mr. Whitetail”) and I have produced...
Invasive Lizard Species Concerns SCDNR Officials

Invasive Lizard Species Concerns SCDNR Officials

The number of invasive tegu lizards, a species popular in the pet trade, continues to increase across South Carolina, especially in the Midlands. South Carolina documented its first black and white tegu lizard, a species popular in the pet trade, in Lexington after a...
Mentoring Youth Hunters

Mentoring Youth Hunters

It is up to the next generation of dedicated conservation hunters to protect, enhance and defend America’s millions of acres of public land. Richard stood five feet, two inches and wrestled. He wrestled on the mat in college, wrestled steer carcasses from the...
Why Do Women Hunt?

Why Do Women Hunt?

In her book Why Women Hunt, K.J. Houtman features stories of some of the women who are contributing to the growing percentage of women in America who hunt. If you’ve ever had the notion to take a woman hunting, you’re onto something pretty special. As K.J. Houtman...
Nebraska Youth Outdoors Essay Competition

Nebraska Youth Outdoors Essay Competition

Youth are invited to enter the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s Kayak Kid Essay Competition for the chance to win an outdoors prize package. The contest requires a handwritten 250-word essay expressing why growing up in the outdoors is important. Entries must...
Recipe for Hunter’s Breakfast Cups

Recipe for Hunter’s Breakfast Cups

From The Lodge at Black Pearl Cookbook, Vicky Mullaney shares her breakfast recipe that will awaken the cowboy in all of us. On one of our early fly fishing trips out West we stayed at the Diamond J Ranch in Ennis, Montana. They served us a very hearty breakfast every...