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  • A deliberate life in the Rockies

    On the Wild Edge is David Peterson’s account of the two decades he and his wife, Caroline, have spent living close to nature in a cabin in the mountains of southern Colorado

    by David Morgan, Oct 16, 2006

  • A hunter for gun control

    A lifelong hunter wonders why all hunters are stereotyped as pro-NRA, anti-control, when so many of the hunters she knows feel differently.

    by Ali Macalady, Nov 06, 2000

  • A hunter goes lobbying

    A group of hunters and fishermen visit Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Oregon) to ask him to sign on as a co-sponsor of the Lieberman-Warner bill to control greenhouse gas emissions.

    by Pat Wray, Feb 25, 2008

  • A look at the West, in the funhouse mirror

    Old Westerners and New Westerners are equally hypocritical when it comes to caricaturing each other and not looking at themselves

    by Jim Stiles, Mar 21, 2005
  • Advice from the Loser School of Hunting

    Advice from the Loser School of Hunting

    Even a poor student gets a second chance in the Loser School of Hunting, where if at first you don’t succeed, you try, and try again.

    by Ari LeVaux, Nov 12, 2009

  • Are mountain lions in danger of disappearing?

    Disappearing habitat and an increase in hunting quotas based on politics and guesswork are threatening the stability of mountain lion populations in the West.

    by Jodi Peterson, Apr 12, 2004
  • Audio: High Country Views, episode 5

    Audio: High Country Views, episode 5

    Hal Herring and Cally Carswell talk hunting, conservation and wolves.

    by Cally Carswell, May 05, 2010

  • Bipartisan uprising sinks public-lands selloff

    Reps. Richard Pombo’s and Jim Gibbons’ controversial proposal to sell off public lands was pulled after both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and citizens rallied against it

    by Ray Ring, Dec 26, 2005

  • Cougar Management Guidelines

    Cougar Management Guidelines collects current cougar research into a set of guidelines for managing these secretive and increasingly rare big cats

    by Staff, Oct 31, 2005
  • Dangerous game

    Dangerous game

    Western game wardens are hampered by huge territories, increased responsibilities and continuing budget cuts.

    by Deborah Sullivan Brennan, Jan 31, 2010
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