Even in this feeble winter, shallow snow persisted recently in the local mountains for about a 10-day span. It was long enough for wild creatures to document their movements, habits and even some amusing incidents as a temporary record.I chuckled as I unraveled the story told by turkey tracks ...
This is an awkward, anticlimactic time of year for outdoor types. We tend to be objective-driven, especially during the hunting seasons, which are closing now. We enjoy the outdoors for its own sake, but we still crave that 鈥渆dge鈥� of pursuit. It鈥檚 a letdown deepened by the bland and balmy ...
Some readers have reported an unfamiliar, dark and furry creature in the woods. Odds are high it鈥檚 not Bigfoot, but those readers may have spotted a fisher. That many people don鈥檛 recognize a fisher is no surprise. Fishers became extinct in this region more than a century ago. Fishers need ...
Ducks Unlimited magazine suggested it as a waterfowl hunter鈥檚 winter project. I viewed it as a New Year鈥檚 resolution 鈥� to put up a wood duck box.I didn鈥檛 even need to build the box. Several years ago, I鈥檇 found one in disrepair but basically intact, lying useless and half-buried in ...
I am aware, at my age, that my commenting on outdoor trends looking back across decades can come across to readers as a yearning for some simpler past. That is not my intent. But I do pay attention to things outdoors because they have always had the feeling to me of something important and ...
A column about trout fishing, in the middle of deer season, may seem misplaced. But what is more misplaced than the weather we鈥檙e having? Shouldn鈥檛 those specks in the air be flurries instead of gnats and mosquitoes?Just before Thanksgiving the weather was especially mild and, I鈥檒l say ...
