It can be intimidating for beginners to get into mushroom foraging, but with a little bit of knowledge and attention to detail, you’ll be coming home with a good haul of mushrooms to add to all your favorite wild-game dishes before you know ...
‘The Alpinist’ Should Be the Next Climbing Documentary You Watch
The Alpinist (2021) is a new and riveting documentary about the extraordinary life of Canadian climber Marc-André Leclerc. This climbing documentary chronicles Lelerc’s remarkable transition from living in a stairwell with girlfriend Brette ...
5 Books About Public Land To Bring With You Into the Backcountry
Hunting season is finally here. Over the next few months, many of us will be spending quite a bit of time enjoying America’s public lands. Whether you’re stuck in your tent due to bad weather or just looking for something to relax with at night, ...
First Woman to Solo Hike Appalachian Trail was an All-American Badass
Thousands of hikers have sojourned to Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio every January since 1967 to honor the hiking legacy of Emma "Grandma" Gatewood. She was a poet, mother to 11 children, and a survivor of domestic abuse. She was also the first ...
Angela Maxwell: The Woman Who Walked Around the World
In December of 2020, Angela Maxwell completed an astonishing journey that lasted 6 1/2 years. In that time, she covered 20,000 miles on her own two feet and walked nearly the circumference of the earth. She walked around the world. Maxwell traversed ...
New Jersey Effectively Shuts Down Bear Hunting for 2021
Anti-hunting activists have won their long battle to ban bear hunting in New Jersey, at least for this coming 2021 season. New Jersey, known more for turnpikes and urban sprawl, has the densest black bear population in the country, according ...
WATCH: The Eye of Fire Burns in the Gulf of Mexico
A video of a flaming, underwater gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico showcased an otherworldly scene that looked like something straight out of The Lord of the Rings. The video of the burning gas, dubbed the “eye of fire,” went viral over the ...
‘The Comfort Crisis’: This Book Should Be Your Next Read
I pull the rifle’s trigger, an action that sends its striker pin into the round’s primer, igniting the powder and creating a violent release of energy that pushes a bullet 22 inches down the barrel at 1,772 miles an hour. The herd collectively ...
Oregon Bill Would Ban Hunting, Fishing, Trapping, and Animal Agriculture
Initiative Petition 13, or IP13, was filed in Oregon in November by a Portland animal-rights activist with almost 1,100 sponsorship signatures. In the latest development, if by July 8 supporters collect the 112,020 signatures required to move the ...
Hemingway’s Top 5 Hunting and Fishing Stories
In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “To me a heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in.” I like to think this version of heaven does ...
