Washington Discovers a Wetland Rule That Works—and Immediately Calls for Review
The federal government has once again fired up its most reliable engine of public policy: if it ain’t broke, form a working group to figure out whether it can be broken more equitably. This time it’s the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which has opened a...
The Waterhole
At the muddy little pond, a 12-year-old boy would find his place in the world.
Little Windy and the Wingshooting Woman
She was a green-eyed freckle-faced redhead, long of hair and limb, married a couple of times before I met her but neither lasted too long. Her name, literally translated, meant “the daughter of an angel of bright shining light,” and it was true, mostly....
Diary of a Market Hunter
A real-life account of a market hunter’s day-to-day, warts and all.
A Presidential Pursuit: Hunters Who Led the Nation
Roosevelt and Cleveland weren’t the only presidents who spent time afield.
Travelers of the Edge
They stood, Helen and Webster, side by side in black water beneath a canopy of moon-bleached trees, trunks white as ghosts raising slender claws toward the streaks of shooting stars. ”I’ve never seen them like this,” Helen said softly. “So many...
A Week Before Christmas
One morning, a December long-ago, a week before Christmas, Bob walked into a local store in Millerton, New York. The owner, Phil, a friend, was behind the counter taking care of a customer as Bob came in from the cold. “Late night, Bob,” he said. That wasn’t a...
The Grand Passage of Beetle Island
A once-in-a-lifetime view of the waterfowl migration.
Seeing with a Hunter’s Heart
Hunting is paradoxical: Immersing one’s self in a hunt that could end in death is life-affirming.