Out Of Bounds

Out of Bounds

Dogs and the Hunt

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

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Hunting Wisdom for Townsfolk

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

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Ode to the Long Walker

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

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Safety Doesn’t Come Cheap

Although the film industry has safety procedures in place, short cuts leave crew members vulnerable to potentially lethal errors

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Restoring the Mammoth Steppe

Science fiction literature and films have long toyed with the fantasy of resurrecting extinct beasts. The novel “Jurassic Park” was published in 1990 and the film version premiered in 1993, launching the modern “reality-based” lost-species-resurrection genre. I suggest reality-based only in that for the first time that I can recall, there was plausibility to the fictional technique used to reanimate Tyrannosaurus rex.

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The Name’s the Game

Most folks know American antelope aren’t antelope at all, but pronghorn, the last of a family of ungulates existing only in North America. Their closest relative is the giraffe, of all things. 

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Not That Kind of Poison

If activists took time to examine rotenone use in the United States, what they’d find is a history of success

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The Dawn of Man

Our tool making has created a world of luxury and overproduction that threatens our own existence, as well as the world that sustains us