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.
What is impact of ‘anti’s’ on wolf management?
Wolves, wolves and wolves.
'Cemetery' lives to haunt me again
I had an unsettling flashback on the day of the Flathead County Spelling Bee, the annual showdown of top spellers held Feb. 13 this year.
‘Cemetery’ lives to haunt me again
I had an unsettling flashback on the day of the Flathead County Spelling Bee, the annual showdown of top spellers held Feb. 13 this year.
Conditions, conditions...
In one of the mildest winters I can ever remember in my 22 years in Northwest Montana, I really am wondering what this will mean for our spring and summer conditions.
Conditions, conditions...
In one of the mildest winters I can ever remember in my 22 years in Northwest Montana, I really am wondering what this will mean for our spring and summer conditions.
My decade of dance aerobics
One of the instructors at my gym recently resurrected her old dance aerobics class — 2000s-era music and moves — for a Saturday morning class. I decided it would be fun to go, having been “into” dance aerobics for …
My decade of dance aerobics
One of the instructors at my gym recently resurrected her old dance aerobics class — 2000s-era music and moves — for a Saturday morning class. I decided it would be fun to go, having been “into” dance aerobics for …
Ice fishing tourneys
Well, as we move into February, the ice fishing season seems to be holding on, if only barely. Still many lakes, especially the larger ones that are either still not frozen or if they are it is marginal ice. Many o…
Tired of winter? Go jump in a lake
I’m here to state the obvious: winter makes people crazy.
Tired of winter? Go jump in a lake
I’m here to state the obvious: winter makes people crazy.
The metrics of shoveling snow
Due to circumstances beyond my control (weather and a clogged fuel line in the snowblower), I’ve been required to shovel every inch of this winter’s snowfall, one shovel at a time.
What's in a (cow's) name?
It’s funny how memories are jogged. Sometimes all it takes is certain smell, photograph or conversation for some past part of your life to bubble back up to the surface.
Time for 'tip ups'
For today’s column, I will assume that many readers may have a very basic knowledge, or need a refresher on the many different types of “tip ups” there are. For starters, a basic tip up consists of a frame of some …
Always the next big thing
I got an unexpected introduction to yet another new technology recently.
Pulling the trigger doesn't always make a great hunt
Last November was a transitional point in my adult life.