Sharp-tailed grouse are are a joy to hunt, and with kitchen skills, tasty to eat. The bird hunting season often starts with sharptails.
The West is burning
Fires in California billowed smoke across the continent, and then around the globe.
Insect innovations
True flies sport one pair of wings, and a pair of gyroscopes called halteres. Halteres turn flies into aerial acrobats.
Tag teaming a rambunctious pup
It takes a team effort to turn a puppy into a bird dog. My 10-year-old setter Doll and I are doing our best with the teen terror upending our lives.
Darwin Award Winners
I recently came upon a tree felling operation that suggested the tree fellers were in as great a danger as the tree.
Outdoors Act approved
After years of haggling, the Land and Water Conservation fund was finally approved with full funding in August when President Trump signed the bill into law.
Puppies produce sleepless nights
I've got a new puppy, Jade. She's beautiful and fun. Now if she'd just sleep through the night.
Slaying walleye with The Fish Slayer
This was no catch and release trip. The Fish Slayer took us to his favorite walleye spot and our creel was heavy with future filets by morning's end.
Dreaming of electric fish
I ended the summer with one last float on the Stillwater where it joins with the Yellowstone, with an old friend from my Kalispell days.
Put that shopping cart where it belongs
These are rough times. Do the little things that will reduce stress on stressed out strangers.