by Jim Huckabay | Jul 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
You no doubt heard this last week that the decades-long effort to revive the nearly extinct California condor has hit a milestone – the 1,000th condor chick hatched recently in Zion National Park, in southern Utah. In 1982, 22 California condors existed in the wild....
by Jim Huckabay | Jul 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Frankly, with the cool – thus far – and cloudy summer in Central Washington, I have not seen my normal bounty of butterflies and moths. On the other hand, several homeys have reported seeing various “flowers of the air” in the Yakima River Canyon, up on and around...
by Jim Huckabay | Jul 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
This is the time of year that most of us start seriously planning our fall big game hunts. That planning and preparation generally starts with making sure our firearms are shooting as well as we intend. That “target practice” is also about reacquainting ourselves with...
by Jim Huckabay | Jul 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
It has long fascinated me. It’s that “synchronicity” thing, when suddenly from different directions come bits of information that respond to some question floating around in my mind. A week or so ago, after an extended closure, Washington’s Department of Fish and...
by Jim Huckabay | Jun 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Last Saturday morning. It was an impromptu off-Reecer Creek meeting of the Reecer Creek Rod, Gun, Working Dog & Outdoor Think Tank Benevolent Association (RCRGWD&OTTBA). Deborah Essman, Bird Whisperer of Paradise (BWP), dropped by the Rodeo City Radio Club’s...