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The Nature Connection

A Young Hunter's Connection with the Natural World

A Young Hunter's Connection with the Natural World

Fifty years later, the author's childhood experiences drive his conservation ethic.

Do Non-Hunters Get It?

Do Non-Hunters Get It?

Here is food for thought as we hunters go about our lives as a part...

Tracked By a Cougar

Tracked By a Cougar

Imagine the feeling when cougar tracks begin to mingle with yours in the fresh-fallen snow.

How Hunting Imparts Life Lessons

How Hunting Imparts Life Lessons

New Year’s Eve is the perfect time to reflect on what hunting brings to our...

Heart of the Wilderness

Heart of the Wilderness

Motivated by a pending father/son elk-hunting adventure, an open-heart surgery patient works to recover and...

Explaining Hunting to Nonhunters

Explaining Hunting to Nonhunters

Most nonhunters are not antis—they just need to be educated. Here’s how.

What Hemingway Taught Us About Hunting and Ourselves

What Hemingway Taught Us About Hunting and Ourselves

Ernest Hemingway’s stories about hunting were really always about more than hunting—which, as we know,...

Casey, the Natural: A Dog Owner's Tale

Casey, the Natural: A Dog Owner's Tale

A faithful Lab shows its owner how we hunters and our dogs are bound by...

The Unexpected Moose

The Unexpected Moose

We hunters appreciate our encounters with nature and recognize that our role in sustaining wildlife...

Hunting Shapes Lives in Positive Ways

Hunting Shapes Lives in Positive Ways

This hunter’s quest for a particular B&C buck spanned multiple hunting seasons that created a...

Explaining the Other Side of Hunting

Explaining the Other Side of Hunting

Know any non-hunters? Then make them understand it is our very bond with nature that...

The Hunter's Grasp on the Natural World

The Hunter's Grasp on the Natural World

Hunters possess naturalistic tendencies that many non-hunters do not understand about us—especially those who do...

The Role of the Hunter and the Gun in Wildlife Conservation

The Role of the Hunter and the Gun in Wildlife Conservation

Without the American hunter and his gun, wildlife conservation simply does not exist.

The Sagebrush Connection

The Sagebrush Connection

For us hunters, even the mere smell of sagebrush can transport us back to a...

Bonding in the High Country

Bonding in the High Country

A father-son wilderness hunt offers up life lessons that go far beyond learning how to...

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