Instead of shaming us into essentially not hunting, we should focus on defending our sport and the habitat that sustains the animals we pursue

With hunting season over, this is when I take stock of the remains in the freezer and get to work, making stock

The Stream Access Law was approved in 1985, after a pair of 1984 rulings by the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the public’s right to access navigable rivers and streams

Flight is a great strategy for evading predators, though it isn’t always the perfect solution

I don’t always want the new. Sometimes I seek comforting familiarity.

Trail camera bans seem to be picking up steam across the West

What’s happening out on the checkerboard squares of our public lands isn’t kid stuff

I’ve got a bunch. Some have perennial spots on my list.

The impossible question is, of course, “If you could hunt only one bird, what would it be?”

This is the fifth and final installment in my review of cookbooks that make great Christmas gifts for wild protein eaters

Catch-and-release transformed river fly fishing and it now provides nearly endless enjoyment and fun for anglers

Without dogs most of what made the hunt special would have been lost in time, like tears in grass

Kitchen work is an essential step in the journey from field to table, but you’ve got to kill it first

Hunting with others isn’t horrible. It’s just that the conversation, the other dogs, and the necessity of negotiation breaks hunting’s fourth wall

Someday maybe I’ll recognize the only thing I truly know is my morning path from bed to coffee pot