Horses I Have Known: The Houdini   

Horses I Have Known: The Houdini   

This horse, while not intrinsically mean, is nonetheless a master escape artist.  No series of knots, regardless of their complexity, are capable of securing this animal for more than about 30 seconds, which is generally just about enough time for you to walk out of...
Chesapeake Bay Retriever: A Plain Great Dog

Chesapeake Bay Retriever: A Plain Great Dog

My first hunting dog was a Chesapeake Bay retriever. That might seem a poor choice of first-time hunting dog, Chesapeakes being notoriously idiosyncratic—if you use that word to express their penchant for independent thinking. Other words would be eccentric, singular,...
Arkansas Deer Harvest Passes 140,000

Arkansas Deer Harvest Passes 140,000

During first two weeks of the 2019 modern gun deer season, Arkansas hunters harvested more than 140,000 deer throughout the state. To put that into perspective, Arkansas hunters had already checked more deer than the total harvest for any year before 1995 in The...
Horses I Have Known: The Commuter  

Horses I Have Known: The Commuter  

Wranglers know that certain horses like to lead and other horses are better off following the animal ahead of them. The commuter is a horse who is somewhere in the middle of the group and spends its time alternating between burying its nose in the nether regions of...
MN To Update Wolf Management Plan 

MN To Update Wolf Management Plan 

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is updating the state’s wolf management plan and is looking to the public for input. To that end, the agency is creating a new wolf plan advisory committee to help inform the update to the management plan. Applications are...