When auctioneer John Bair finally stomped his cowboy boot on the stage of the 2016 Western Hunting and Conservation Expo and yelled “Sold!” there was a moment of stunned silence in the Salt Lake City ballroom. Then pandemonium as the crowd of hunters cheered, whistled, hooted and high-fived. They...

I’d like to propose that the trendiest whitetail land management project of the last decade is not hidey hole food plots or back-in-the-woods water holes or screening cover, but hinge cutting. Yes, hinge cutting. This popular, quick-and-dirty timber management method has caught fire across the...

This past winter in northern Southeast Alaska broke the record for snowfall, getting more than 200 inches in my hometown. The last time we had a similar winter was in ‘06-’07, when the Alaska Department of Fish & Game asked hunters to kill fawns out of mercy. During my last hunt that season, I...