Not just for the birds
More news this morning from Hercules, about a new lease they signed with the State of Idaho, encompassing for the first time the area on the other side of Highway 71. Most of this land is on the Andrus WMA, and offered hunters and other recreationalists nearly countless opportunities to use the public land. Ranchers …
Over the years, I or Leslie would joke, one of us, usually me, "What is life?" The question, for me, which I shared at the time, years ago, with my wife, came from a recalcitrant student of mine. "Recalcitrant student" is basically the same, in my short career as a teacher, as saying that black …
Ventured over for a hunt on what used to be one of my favorite spots in Hells Canyon. We waited until the Hercules-Barrick "exploration" mining operation shut down for "winter weather." The last two years, the one time each season we'd hunted over there was interrupted by run-ins with mining operations. All this on public …
"God gave Noah the rainbow sign,No more water, but the fire next time." --A.P. Carter, "God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign" This summer, chukar country was on fire. All of the places, and more, that we hunt have been burned. North, south, east, and west of us. Like most chukar hunters, I wondered about the …
[I just found this in my "Drafts" folder. It's from two years ago when we were still looking for a place back in chukar country to move to. I thought I'd posted it but for some reason didn't, probably related to a family emergency that, along with the person it centered on, passed about a …