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This is an awkward, anticlimactic time of year for outdoor types. We tend to be objective-driven, especially during the hunting seasons, which are closing now. We enjoy the outdoors for its own sake, but we still crave that “edge” of pursuit. ItĢƵ a letdown deepened by the bland and balmy ...

Some readers have reported an unfamiliar, dark and furry creature in the woods. Odds are high itĢƵ not Bigfoot, but those readers may have spotted a fisher. That many people don’t recognize a fisher is no surprise. Fishers became extinct in this region more than a century ago. Fishers need ...

Ducks Unlimited magazine suggested it as a waterfowl hunterĢƵ winter project. I viewed it as a New YearĢƵ resolution — to put up a wood duck box.I didn’t even need to build the box. Several years ago, I’d found one in disrepair but basically intact, lying useless and half-buried in ...

Thoughts on a changing tradition

I am aware, at my age, that my commenting on outdoor trends looking back across decades can come across to readers as a yearning for some simpler past. That is not my intent. But I do pay attention to things outdoors because they have always had the feeling to me of something important and ...

A column about trout fishing, in the middle of deer season, may seem misplaced. But what is more misplaced than the weather we’re having? Shouldn’t those specks in the air be flurries instead of gnats and mosquitoes?Just before Thanksgiving the weather was especially mild and, I’ll say ...

If asked whether they’d like to provide 200 meals to needy people, most people would agree they would help if they could. Most people, however, aren’t aware how easy it can be to provide that helping hand. ItĢƵ easy for deer hunters anyway.One deer donated to Hunters Sharing the Harvest ...