Tips for Decoying and Calling Big Game

Calling and decoying big game is so much fun because it’s just about the only time in life when you can justify deception, double-crossing, hoaxing, fraud, dupery, and dishonesty. Here, the goal of the hunter is to mimic, through visual and audio trickery, the same critters that he’s trying to harvest. It’s an exciting, challenging, and interactive discipline that forces you to learn detailed information about your quarry, information that will...

How to Prepare Your Garden Beds for Spring

Spring is here again in the Northern Hemisphere. For us vegetable gardeners, that means a big sigh of relief followed by a frenzy of activity preparing the garden for the upcoming growing season. Spring garden prep activities range from the practical, like pulling up hardy winter weeds, to the somewhat supernatural, like burying a cow skull filled with oak bark, a commonal practice on biodynamic farms. Rituals aside, here are some practical tips...

Western States Open New Efforts to Delist Grizzly Bears

Another chapter in the saga to remove grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act protection is underway in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Currently there are several efforts to delist two grizzly bear population segments that some experts believe are healthy enough to be considered recovered: the Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Continental Divide ecosystems. Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho have recently created a Memorandum of Agreement to help...