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Stocking trout to provide recreational fishing is such a part of our outdoor culture that it almost seems natural. But trout-stocking is more complex, with more potential complications, than fisheries managers once believed.Many surviving native fisheries around the country have been harmed by ...

<strong>W</strong>e are blessed to enjoy our young granddaughter at home with us often. She plays with her dolls, puzzles, and coloring books, but a more novel diversion around here commands her attention too. SheĢƵ at an age when the diverse wildlife we see ...

Outdoor diehards have reason to lament this anemic winter. I’m not a downhill skier but conditions must have been marginal, even on man-made snow. Cross-country skiing is out of the question, and ice-fishermen need to look far northward for safe crust. As if to officially declare the ...

Last November, this column discussed the opening of deer season. But unless you’re an avid deer hunter, the span when itĢƵ legal to take a whitetail may be longer than you think. The big event, regular firearms season, ended back in mid-December but the final moments of opportunity ticked ...