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Utilities are facing new distribution system challenges, including the growing adoption of distributed energy resources, transportation electrification, the increasing frequency of major weather events, and the evolving customer expectations of [...]

The celebrity philosopher, which is an endangered species in continental Europe, is already extinct in our Anglophone world. True, occasionally an enterprising denizen of one of our philosophy faculties (Daniel [...]

Times were a little different 30 years ago. Whitetails numbers were exploding, dedicated hunters could still find a few coveys of quail, and permission to hunt both was as simple [...]

Persons of a reflective bent all too often underestimate the enormous strength that truly abysmal ignorance can bring. Knowledge is power, of course, but--measured by a purely Darwinian calculus--too much [...]

I come to praise Eugene McCarraher (rather lavishly, in fact), not to bury him. But I may as well begin with a complaint, if only so as to appear evenhanded. [...]

TWO DECADES AGO, BRAD RODENHIZER MIGHT HAVE INSISTED I WEAR A BLINDFOLD BEFORE HE TOOK ME TO ONE OF HIS SPOTS. Who can blame him? Grouse hunters have always been [...]

It is a ritual performed by tens of thousands of hunters across whitetail country every deer season. Dab a little doe-in-estrous urine on a boot, walk to the stand, dip [...]

THERE IS a general sense among most Christians that the notion of an eternal hell is explicitly and unremittingly advanced in the New Testament; and yet, when we go looking [...]

DAYS AFTER he drew a Tennessee archery elk tag last year, Hunter Munck did what every beginning elk hunter would do. He went straight to YouTube. The 22-year-old Cleveland, Tennessee, [...]

As I am not a Roman Catholic, I cannot pretend to have any stake in--or, for that matter, any particular right to an opinion regarding--the controversy surrounding Amoris laetitia. From [...]

Fur prices may be down, but a single bobcat earned three hunters more than $48,000 last February. Kelby Frizzell, Colby Frizzell, and Clay Allen won the West Texas Big Bobcat [...]

Who said nothing gets done in Congress? A sweeping conservation bill sailed through the Senate and House in February, paving the way for President Donald J. Trump to sign one [...]

Like most hunters who spend time in the spring woods, Jack Boyd never gave much thought to the ticks embedded in his skin at the end of the day. They [...]

IT WAS NOTHING short of devastating. What was once an annual $40 million injection into Maryland's economy came to an abrupt end in 1995 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife [...]

THERE ISN'T A RICE FIELD FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES. The nearest coastal marsh is a four-hour drive. Flooded timber? Only after a hurricane dumps a foot of rain. Take a [...]

Is hunting flooded corn fair chase? Is it killing our sport? A BILL INTRODUCED in the Idaho legislature would have banned flooding corn and other crops for the purpose of [...]

MISSISSIPPI DUCK HUNTERS will soon have access to an additional 18,000 acres of duck-rich bottomland forest in the Delta. Thank the Nature Conservancy and the state of Mississippi for that [...]

NECESSITY, THE SAYING goes, is the mother of invention. So when Garrett Walker and a couple of his friends realized they were set up on the wrong side of a [...]

SECRETARY OF THE Interior Ryan Zinke announced in May new or expanded hunting opportunities on 30 national wildlife refuges. The proposal will add an additional 248,000 acres to the refuge [...]

IF YOU WANT TO HUNT DUCKS WHERE THEY LIVE, you're going to need a boat to get to them--bottom line. Whether you are in the market for a new boat [...]

Today's long-tails, surface-drives and outboards have more features than ever and are more powerful and reliable. You can't say that about the old motor on the transom of your boat, [...]

A BITING COLD WIND WHIPS across the Susquehanna Flats as I slip over the side of the boat into frigid belly-deep water. Despite uncountable layers of longjohns, I am not [...]

IS THERE A better time to be a duck hunter? You wouldn't think so. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey, the total number of breeding ducks in the [...]

It's new country for friends Angel Montoya and Ray Trejo, so they peer out the windows of Montoya's truck as he eases down the dirt road, scanning the country for [...]

Ponds are a water source for livestock, a place to gather with friends and family, a relaxing addition to an already scenic view, and a potentially endless source of recreation [...]

THAT BOAT IN YOUR BACKYARD? You know, the one with the battered hull, antique motor and rusted trailer? It's no wonder your friends always seem to be busy when you [...]

IF THERE IS ONE THING YOU can count on during an early-season, south Texas teal hunt, it's mosquitoes, swarms of them. Even with a coating of bug spray and a [...]

WHEN YOU HAVE a boat and people need your help, you do what is necessary, no matter how miserable the conditions. So when Hurricane Harvey parked over the Houston area [...]

THE TURKEY WOODS IN SPRING CAN BE A DREAD-INDUCING HIVE OF DISEASE-CARRYING TICKS. HERE'S HOW TO WIN THE BATTLE WITH THE WORST OF THE CREEPY CRAWLERS HE KNEW SOMETHING WAS [...]

IN 1999, HUNTERS in the Central and Mississippi flyways went afield with a single directive: to kill every snow goose they possibly could. Thanks to a conservation order aimed at [...]

I would be lying if I claimed that my initial approach to By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed was an unprejudiced one--I am firmly convinced that no Christian who [...]

I should be pulling on my vest, stuffing shells in pockets and uncasing my shotgun. Instead, I walk a few steps from the truck, snap off a stalk of sage, [...]

BY MOST ACCOUNTS, Swan Lake is just another natural pothole among thousands of others across the Dakotas. The 1,500-acre lake isn't just any lake, though. It has become the latest [...]

Talk to just about anyone in the waterfowl industry and you'll hear a few common words when it comes to George Lynch: Nice. Dedicated. Honest. Humble. 'He's true to himself [...]

MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE refuge in Oregon was once a thriving marsh that attracted ducks by the tens of thousands. It's now an ecological desert of open, murky water that supports [...]

Whether you hunt for food for the challenge, or a little of both, a field of clover, oats, or chicory grown specifically for deer can help you put more venison [...]

Sprig numbers are down. So is the daily bag limit. Will it help? ON A TYPICAL day, Brad Womble has no trouble shooting two pintails. In fact, adding two drakes [...]

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN DUCK boats were clunky aluminum canoes and banged-up old flat-bottoms. If it floated, it hunted. Today's 'fowling sleds cater to the way you hunt. Whether [...]

YES, GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN. Real duck hunters love burning a line across a dark, cold lake at 4 a.m. It's another reason why we hunt. There are [...]

IT STARTED AS a trickle. Singles, pairs and small groups of mallards and black ducks climbed out of the creek mouth and veered away from our spread, intent on some [...]

* How can a creature no more than 3 or 4 inches tall draw such a visceral emotion from a full-grown, able-bodied adult? The mere sight of a snake--even a [...]