They all survived. My honeybee hives somehow managed to survive another winter... Read Article

For centuries, killing predators was to fish and wildlife management what leeches were to medicine... Read Article

Western humor is all about adversity, braving the elements, surviving the landscape and stretching the truth... Read Article

The extremists who are on a mission to eliminate the Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services would do well to spend time with ranchers who live and work on our Western landscape... Read Article

Most Americans have never heard of the federal agency euphemistically known as Wildlife Services... Read Article

This morning, I saddled a dependable horse and headed for morning rounds at the calving meadow... Read Article

It seems almost unbelievable: A slender, 3-foot-long, three-year-old rainbow trout recently swam from Montana’s Clark Fork River to spawning grounds in the Big Blackfoot River... Read Article

Recently, I heard an ozone warning for the first time on Wyoming radio... Read Article

About a decade ago, while waiting at the town stoplight, I read the bumper stickers on the Jeep Cherokee in front of me... Read Article

The pioneer archetype looms large in the West. Strong and largely fictional, this heroic frontiersman delivered a calf at midnight in the blowing snow, mended fence all day and still had time to ride home into the sunset... Read Article

After three Columbia River tribes decided to stop pushing for the breaching of four federal dams on the Snake River, many critics spoke the ugly word “sellout... Read Article

When I was younger, I was sure I’d been born into the wrong century... Read Article