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Audio: High Country Views, episode 5

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

by Cally Carswell, May 05, 2010
Dangerous game

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

by Deborah Sullivan Brennan, Feb 01, 2010
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
On the road in lonely Wyoming

A late-night encounter with a cop on a lonely Wyoming highway is a quintessentially Western experience.

by Sharon O'Toole, Nov 05, 2009
Life, liberty and the pursuit of … game?

The National Rifle Association wants to enshrine the right to hunt in state constitutions, but even some hunters have their doubts about the wisdom of doing so.

by Nathaniel Hoffman, Jun 09, 2008
The gospel according to Ron Gillett

Ron Gillett brings his anti-wolf crusade to the small farming town of Ashton, Idaho.

by Ray Ring, May 12, 2008
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
What’s worse than an unethical hunter?

Pat Wray loves hunting and agrees that off-road vehicles have their place, but, he says, hunting and ORVs do not go together.

by Pat Wray, Oct 15, 2007
Heard Around the West

Disguising cellphone towers as palm trees; winery etiquette; driving drunk and outspoken in New Mexico; Idiots with guns; fat fish; stupid attorney tricks

by Betsy Marston, Aug 20, 2007
Living precariously with wolves and cattle

Bryce Andrews decides he must kill a wolf to maintain a tenuous balance in Montana

by Bryce Andrews, Aug 20, 2007