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South Dakota Pheasant Hunting with Chad Allen Rischar

South Dakota Pheasant Hunting with Chad Allen Rischar – Part 1 Who doesn’t dream of bird hunting on the northern Great Plains with close friends, incredible dogs, big open skies and beautiful ring-necked pheasants? Here’s Part 1 of Chad Allen Rischar’s epic hunt, along with four great DIY tips he’s offering to help you plan your own western bird hunting adventure: How did you get into hunting, who exposed you to it, and how old Read more…

By Todd Waldron, ago

Communicating the Common Good

Communicating the Common Good – For Hunters and Anglers “Wildlife management is mostly about people management” – Jack Ward Thomas, Forks in the Trail This is one of my favorite quotes from Texas-native Jack Ward Thomas – the 13th Chief of the US Forest Service and later a Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Montana. I don’t suspect that understanding people and social dynamics is the primary reason that most of us hunters Read more…

By Todd Waldron, ago

Three Western Hunting Tips from the late Author Duncan Gilchrist

When it comes to western hunting, the late author Duncan Gilchrist knew how to give good advice. Gilchrist was considered to be one of the preeminent bighorn sheep and mountain goat hunters of his time. He wrote 11 big game hunting books over the span of his sixty six year  lifetime – covering everything from caribou, Dall sheep, bear, pronghorn and elk hunting.  Gilchrist was originally an Easterner. He was a native of Massachusetts and Read more…

By Todd Waldron, ago

Public and Private Land Connections – An Ecology

Public and Private Land Connections – An Ecology by Todd Waldron There are thousands of miles of three to five-strand barb wire fences delineating the boundary lines that run between America’s great public and private forest lands. I’ve been straddling them my entire life. I am a hunter and an angler, a private-land forestry professional and a passionate public land advocate. America’s 360 million acres of non-industrial private forestlands (NIPF) are located mostly in the Read more…

By Todd Waldron, ago

DIY Mule Deer Hunting with Dusty Coryn

DIY Mule Deer Hunting with Dusty Coryn – An Interview – Part 1 The American West offers some incredible DIY public land mule deer hunting opportunities. For eastern hunters who haven’t experienced a mule deer hunt, it can be a trip of a lifetime. In this interview, western New York’s Dusty Coryn breaks down how he pulled together his first western hunt & offers five priceless tips  which will surely shorten our learning curve. Can Read more…

By Todd Waldron, ago

Conservation Advocacy for Hunters and Anglers – Influencing the Influencers

If elected officials from both sides of the aisle tend to represent the interests of their most influential and important constituents first and foremost, then is it possible for hunter conservationists to learn how to influence their ‘influencers’ effectively – the people, forces, money and powers that are ultimately driving decisions & policy?  This is a complicated, fragmented matter with no easy path forward – but it’s entirely necessary to think about this question if Read more…

By Todd Waldron, ago
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Conservation Corner – A Forest Ecology Primer for Hunters

Many of us have experienced it first hand. Any hunter who has endured a bone-chilling late muzzle-loader afternoon on their favorite mountain in mid-December, struggling through calf-high snow as the early winter sun all too quickly disappears into a clear, star-dappled indigo sky, knows that everything is in a constant state of flux throughout any given hunting season. The warm, shirt sleeve days of early archery season; the earthy smells of October; the brilliant red Read more…

By Todd Waldron, ago

From East to West, A First Western Hunting Experience – Part 1 – January 23, 2018

From East to West, a First Western Hunting Experience – Part 1  By Todd Waldron and Jeffrey Jones, October 2016 For thousands of eastern hunters, the dream of a remote backcountry DIY elk hunt in the magnificent Rocky Mountain West is at the very top of our wish list.  The allure of enjoying America’s abundant wild public lands and pursuing one of North America’s most beloved big game animals is a fire in our souls Read more…

By Todd Waldron, ago