Everyone knows when you adopt a new boat type, your first purchase is never what you need; it takes an upgrade or two to get it right

Peak flows are past, but it’s still high-water season and extra caution is required before launching anywhere in Montana

My father wasn’t the greatest fisherman and didn’t really teach me much about fishing, other than the most important lesson of all: to love it

Part 3: Consummation

In a lifetime of fly fishing, I’ve never devoted as much time to an animal without success, as I have to chasing carp

Elk management has been a troublesome issue since we first started managing elk — initially by eliminating them during the early settlement of the West

It’s counterproductive to teach a crate-trained dog to view their kennel as punishment — but not every rule must be followed, zealously

Wealthy landowners have continued to lock the public out of land the public has a right to access

The disease has spread from domestic fowl to humans who have worked closely with domestic flocks

There are many ways hunters demonstrate we are driven by more than bloodlust

Animal intelligence, or at least our perception of it, played a role in the acceptance of catch-and-release fishing

I don’t think it’s elitist to be a wild bird hunter. I can make an argument you’re either hunting wild birds or you’re not hunting.

Meteorologically speaking, spring arrives three days earlier in the United States than it did in 1980

It may seem counterintuitive, but spring is more of an indoor season for me

With this 'Out of Bounds' column it’s been a decade for me at the Flathead Beacon, writing about the outdoors and Montana