Columns
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Northern Pike: Love or hate?
Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing.
Travelers dare to see different
Working at an adventure magazine in Chicago I reported a story by phone about renting sailboats in Tahiti — Bingo! I formed a goal: travel the world.
Lest ye be judged, all you football fans
In truth, until recent years watching an entire game of football on TV was almost impossible for me. I just didn’t grasp much of what was happening on the field and couldn’t keep up with the action. My eyes would g…
Strength in numbers
Is the end of all hunting, fishing and trapping in sight?
With pole, there’s a free launch
The “dance package” called to me.
A once-in-10-years event
In November I received a notification in the mail that my driver’s license would be expiring on my birthday — a once-in-10-years event.
Who said it: The kids are alright
The temperature hovered below freezing, and the sun hid behind a gray cover of clouds, but the mood inside Flathead High School was anything but gloomy.
Blizzards I’ve been through
The (now previous) break from shoveling snow on a nearly daily basis recently gave me time to think back to some of the wilder winter weather I’d experienced back in Ohio before we moved to Montana.
COLUMN: Gilman has front-row seat to Cats’ run
When Tadan Gilman languished a bit for the Montana State Bobcats football team from 2017-19, he had a solid sounding board: His father, Mark.
The (unexpected) little joys of the holidays
Here are a few of the quirky endeavors and serendipities that colored my Christmas this year.
Elk Management
I am always amused by citizens that say all wildlife management should be science based.
Late November brings the closing of two seasons
It’s a seasonal rite of passage for me to lift my road bike onto my shoulder and carry it down the steps to the basement where it will wait out the winter.
17 million words (or so): that’s all she wrote
Well, dear folks, the time has come for me to put down my pen — back away from the computer is more like it — and head into retirement.
Outdoors columnist bags big bull elk
Hunting with me was my guide, Brett and a hunting facilitator, Greg, who books hunts for an outfitter named Bob Walker.
A practice in cultivating daily gratitude
Gratitude is the soul’s balm, especially in the worst of times.
Thanksgiving traditions
Happy Thanksgiving! This is one, if not the happiest weekends of the year for me.