Poaching is an elusive term, loosely defined depending on time, place and context. The word arose in Europe in the early 1600s, when it was applied to anyone who dared trespass on the royal forest to take the king鈥檚 deer, salmon or grouse.Today, the word is widely used to describe large-scale ...
In the coming weeks we鈥檒l anticipate bluebirds, skeins of flying Canada geese, and especially robins, as welcome signs of spring. In truth, though, if you鈥檝e been paying attention, you have likely spied all these birds from time to time all winter long. That is either a testament to their ...
People who don鈥檛 fish tend to view fly-tying with humor, maybe even pity. There鈥檚 a popular image of a fixated angler, hunkered over the vise in the basement, squinting at a bit of feather and a barely visible hook. The TV show 鈥淢*A*S*H鈥� fueled that impression with Lt. Col. Henry Blake ...
It鈥檚 all around us every day and right now it looks as bleak and barren as the recent full moon. For those reasons it鈥檚 easy to overlook the amazing truths about deciduous forest, the dominant living feature across this part of the planet鈥擯ennsylvania, the Laurel Highlands and Fayette ...
Zoological science and rabbit hunting are not two subjects you would necessarily link. Zoology seems a stodgy discipline confined to laboratories, while rabbit hunting is something rural folk once did for fun and food (People still hunt rabbits, of course, but the number has plummeted, down ...
I鈥檝e never read the novel, but last month鈥檚 weather brought to mind John Steinbeck鈥檚 鈥淭he Winter of Our Discontent.鈥� If you had looked forward to skiing, ice-fishing, snowshoeing or hunting deer and grouse on fresh snow this early winter, you were discontented.But outdoors you can ...
