Portrait of a Poacher

Portrait of a Poacher

by | May 5, 2021

A team of diligent agencies and individuals worked together for years to secure the long-awaited guilty plea from Oregon’s serial poacher. Kathy Spengler needed to paint a picture. Not a paint-by-numbers type portrait, but one that had to be closer to a...
Velvet Elk at Poso Creek

Velvet Elk at Poso Creek

by | Sep 1, 2020

A mid-summer fly fishing trip turns into an impromptu elk hunt. There before me stood 80 elk or more, the nearest ones no more than 70 yards away. I love hunting elk! And these elk clearly needed hunting. There were four of them—three cows and one young bull, his...
One Big Bull Elk, No Rifle

One Big Bull Elk, No Rifle

by | Jun 15, 2020

I’m still not sure who was more startled when our trails suddenly crossed, that big bull elk or me. Bear Canyon. Iron Springs. The Beaver Slide. Cañones Creek, Grouse Mesa, Bandit Peak, and the great Poso Valley—all names of places I have come to treasure over the...