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Webster=s New World Dictionary does “Thanks'giv'ing” this way: “1. A formal public expression of thanks to God. 2. An annual U.S. holiday.” And “thank’ful” as “feeling or expressing gratitude.” Given these fascinating and somewhat tumultuous times in which we are...

Somehow, this just seems wrong. Christmas trees? Christmas? Already? On the other hand, the press release from the U.S. Forest Service (and the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest folks) is probably right on time. Families can be planning now to go find the tree which...

You probably noticed it, too, last week. An online reader was kind enough to send me an “Oops, those numbers were off!” He noted that any hunter’s spouse will tell you their hunter spends a lot more than a couple bucks a year. In noting that as U.S. hunter numbers...

Maybe you have seen the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) report released in August. The 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (National Overview) is the latest of these surveys. At the behest of state wildlife agencies,...

For a few years there, a while back, I found myself fretting about young hunters, and that “future of hunting” stuff we so often cuss and discuss. Where were the youngsters? Why weren’t they out there with parents, grandparents or some adult mentor? Now, I’m thinking...

Hunting rules, dates and ways may be evolving, but opening day anticipation has continued unabated. There was a time when deer seasons opened across the West, followed by elk season, then upland birds and waterfowl – some variance from state to state, but each season...