Outdoors

Out of Bounds

Voting for the Outdoors

If you are a hunter or angler, access is the most important issue affecting these sports

Glacier Park

Winter Weather Closes Section of Going-to-the-Sun Road

Citing hazardous ice conditions and winter weather, Glacier National Park officials on Thursday morning temporarily closed the alpine highway to motorists between Avalanche Creek and Jackson Glacier Overlook

Timber

In Northwest Montana, Private Timber is Betting the Forest on Public Access Protection

Land and wildlife managers, timber companies, hunters, and conservationists have stitched together a checkerboard of vulnerable working forests, using easements to protect private timberland from development. With a critical piece of the puzzle coming up for final land board approval, advocates say a new model of forest management is taking shape.

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Cost of Climate Change

Now fire seasons across the West are starting earlier and lasting longer than ever before

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St. Patrick the Cat

I suppose if that cat had spent much time outside she would have learned snakes are also food

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The Safety Season

I’m a safe guy to take hunting, but like all of us I’ve made a few mistakes in the field

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So it Begins

I’m off to my usual slow start in the earliest weeks of hunting season. Upland birds opened in many states on Sept. 1, but I don’t usually hunt much early in the season. My day job is teaching, and September is the busiest month of the year. Also, I’ve lived the majority of my life […]