Jerry Brown's True 'Green' Legacy: The Death of the Delta?
The following is a revised transcript of the presentation that I gave when I was inducted into the California Outdoors Hall of Fame by Tom Stienstra, Outdoor Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and...
View ArticleCastagna, Bacher, Weatherby top CA Outdoors Hall of Fame class
The annual awards ceremony for the California Outdoor Hall of Fame will be at 4 pm on Saturday, January 10 in the California Sportsmen Theatre at the International Sportsmen's Exposition at Cal Expo in...
View ArticleFish agencies, anglers are optimistic about 2015 ocean salmon season
State and federal fishery scientists speaking at the annual salmon informational meeting held in Santa Rosa on Thursday, February 26, shared encouraging news for sport and commercial anglers for the...
View ArticleBirdwatchers And Hunters The Most Environmentally Engaged Citizens
So says a new study by researchers at Cornell published in this month's issue of Wildlife Management. Like any study they came up with a name and an acronym for what they were studying, they were...
View ArticleThis is NOT a Fish Story: Ashley's First Large-Mouth Bass
Fishing at Granny's "I got a fish!" "Oh, he got away!," Ashley exclaimed angrily for the umpteenth time. She was just excited to be with her daddy fishing! Or, so I though, but little did I know.We...
View ArticleFishermen Demand Justice after Shots Fired And No Arrest
Approximately ten rounds were fired at three fisherman on lake Tobesofkee in Macon, Georgia and to date no one has been charged or arrested. The shots, according to reports, were fired from 124 Lotus...
View ArticleSomeone released their goldfish and now there are thousands of goldfish...
The largest koi pond in this here parts As beautiful as it may seem to watch thousands of goldfish swim about in late afternoon light of a Boulder, Colorado day, for the Parks and Wildlife, it's a...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread - Gone Fishing
Good Morning Kossacks and Welcome to Morning Open Thread (MOT) We're known as the MOTley Crew and you can find us here every morning at 6:30 a.m. Eastern (and perhaps sometimes earlier!). Feel free to...
View ArticleA You Tube Video On Hunter Recruitment and Access
Warning for non hunters you'll probably just be bored or won't understand what's discussed. Don't watch expecting dead critters. It's just a dinner talk.Below is a talk given by Steve Rinella of...
View ArticleHouse Ends Migratory Bird Protection With 35 Words
First off it has yet to pass the senate, so don't go throttle an eagle just yet.On a voice vote, last week during the dead of night the congress voted to eliminate all punishments for violations...
View ArticleNorth Carolina's Bloodlust Sport
Governor McCrory and the state legislature support wildlife killing fields. For effortless deer kills North Carolina allows property owners to lure state animals onto private property and then fence...
View ArticleBattle Strategy Against Asian Carp in the Great Lakes -2015 Update
You've seen them on You Tube in the Illinois River: Take a closer look...... Asian carp and other related invasive carp species in the Illinois River System are among the most serious invasive species...
View ArticleOff topic...Farmed Pheasants
Ok, so I realize there's a world of other things happening right now that need far more attention than this matter, but it's been a point of contention for me for weeks (even years) now and I thought...
View ArticleBlack Hills Photo Diary & LWCF
One might think a government program with a 50 year track record of success would be a pretty safe bet to continue into the future. Yet in the case of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF),...
View ArticleInterior and Agriculture Appoint 18 to Wildlife and Hunting Heritage...
As the only official advisory group established under congress to advise Secretary of Interior Jewell (USFWS, Parks, USGS, BLM) and Sec of Agriculture Vilsack (Forest Service) on issues related to...
View ArticleI Just Bought 90 Acres (and I'm giving it to the BLM)
And it gets better. The 90 acres is strategically important to access a further 6,000 acres of prime wildlands adjacent to the Missouri Breaks National Monument. These 90 acres open up a lot more land...
View ArticleEthical Hunter Throws Duck He Shot Back Into Sky
If this sounds like a title from the Onion that's because it is. As is often the case the Onion skewers with wit and very few words. The subject is not duck hunting but rather effete catch and release...
View ArticleBackpacking Out The Meat
For the past day and a half I've been backpacking meat out of the Indian Peaks Wilderness. I don't think many people hear much about this side of hunting. There's an expression that after the shot the...
View ArticleA Redneck and His Guns
My husband is a hunter, and a gun aficionado. I had never been around guns until we met. I thought hunters were terrible people. I didn't believe their "conservation" talk; I knew that if men hadn't...
View ArticleFarming: Wetlands, Woods, & Wildlife= $$$
Good luck finding a hotel room for less than a hundred bucks in central South Dakota tonight... Yup, flyover land is booked solid. Lookin' to rent a four wheel drive anything at the suddenly busy Sioux...
View Article
