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BY David E. Petzal ILLUSTRATION BY Christopher Shy IN 1897, a group of hunters, anglers, and explorers who loved the wilderness, but whose professions confined them to the New York [...]

The article evaluates several products for hunting including Tiger Wall Tent 2 Platinum from Big Agnes Inc.; Waterway, knife from Spyderco Knives Inc.; and Pillow X from Klymit.

A drake common eider gets ready to take flight. My friend Kevin Addy, an Avery pro staffer, had built an eider rig five-dozen blocks strong, ready for service. This is the thrill of eider hunting: Braving the elements and taking calculated risks on the cold wilderness of the Atlantic, just to encounter these wild birds. INSET: WORTH THEIR SALT. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on author's weeklong paddle and fishing trip in Quetico park, a smallmouth and walleye wilderness in Canada, along with his three companions. Topics discussed include the Boundary Water Canoe Area (BWCA), the biodegradable is designed for low-impact camping, and they obtain Remote Area Border Crossing Permits, pay the daily use fee and purchase fishing licenses. INSET: MAKING THE TRIP NORTH.

The article offers information on the wild places explored by the periodical in the U.S. It states that Yaak Valley, situated in Montana on a large piece of federal land. It mentions that Alpine Triangle is situated in Colorado, with dense forest, elks and trouts. It highlights Roan Plateau, located in Colorado is a habitat for diverse fish.

Presents the author's experience of hunting ruffed grouse in the upper peninsula (UP) of Michigan. Information on the wilderness of UP; Encounter with bear, wolf or bobcat; Information that logging continues on the UP, which is a good thing for its inhabitants, who need the work, and for the grouse hunter.

Provides tips on how to have an enjoyable adventure travel in the United States. Correlation of backcountry escapes and wilderness travel with hunting and fishing traditions; Publicity of expensive exotic adventures; Planning principle of outdoor camping; Information on areas requiring a short backpacking hike; Details of the camping by canoe option.

I'VE DEFINITELY COME closer to dying in the woods, and passing a kidney stone hurt a lot worse. But I've not had a tougher day in wilderness. We were halfway [...]

The article presents the author's views on the impact of U.S. energy policies on wild land protection. The author says that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision to complete dozens of Resource Management Plans (RMPs) across western U.S. before the end of President George W. Bush's administration, would harm 42 million acres of wild land. He advises that hunters and anglers use the opportunity to influence the government since any person or group is entitled to recommend changes.

Offers a look at one of the yearly get-togethers sponsored by the Forest Service and the Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association. Brings together different people concerned with the Idaho wilderness; Ideas hashed out in Idaho's outback.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of getting lost in wilderness with son during trout fishing due to a storm.

A personal narrative is presented which discusses the experience of Erik Lundberg during a storm in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Minnesota.

The article reports on Yaak Valley situated in northwest corner of Montana, which is home to several species of trouts, apart from deers, elks and wolves and which faces threat from mining and road construction.

The article offers information on the debate Hunters Conserve Wildlife organized by Intelligence which holds debates about controversial topics in front of a live audience. Topics discussed include efforts to outlaw regulated sport hunting, hunters protects wildlife and wild places than any other group; and hunters contributes million dollars for conservation of wildlife.

The article presents suggestions for planting saplings to improve hunting lands. Trees would provide wildlife with food, cover and shelter. It states that one can order sapling varieties online. It suggests that checking with local natural resources offices for the plant species would help a person meet his/her habitat goals. One can plant saplings before leaf-out in spring or after leaf-drop in fall.

The article discusses what one should carry with oneself on a solo wilderness hunt in freezing temperatures. The author reports that all his gear, including medical kit and neck knife, weighed just 4¼pounds and would fit in a fanny pack, but he preferred a daypack with a suspension system. His medical kit consisted of matches, lighter and candle. The author points out that a lighter is a backup fire starter. For lighting kindling bundles or damp twigs, the enduring flame of a candle works better than a match.

The article focuses on the author's canoe camping experiences. It is really all about the fishing. The nonstop action of back country canoe fishing is why three friends and I decided to kick off our trout season with a wilderness camping trip in New York's 18,000 acre St. Regis Canoe Wilderness Area in the heart of Adirondack state park. The St. Regis gets a fair amount of traffic in the spring, mostly from day tripping fishermen. Our first stop, one of the remotest lakes in the chain, was typical. We caught ridiculous numbers of brook trout in shallow, sunlit coves but never saw another fisherman.

The article focuses on three knots that can handle any wilderness task. Sportsmen seem to be always tying, lashing, rigging, joining or hitching some kind of rope or line. One may know the basic working knots, half hitch, double half hitch, slipknot and bowline but the true outdoorsman needs to move up to the next level of expertise. With three knots described in this article one would be able to keep a tent guy as taut as a guitar string. The key to mastering these three knots. INSET: THE CHALLENGE.

For a hunter or fisherman who faces an unexpected night in the winter wilderness, fire is the god that grants the dawn. But all fires are not equal. The Native American star fire has sticks arranged like spokes of a wheel. The log cabin fire burns at the other end of the spectrum, producing a bonfire flame and lots of BTUs but consuming its fuel supply all at once. What a total outdoorsman needs to know is how to build a long lasting fire that warms the head as well as the feet, the backside as well as the front and that requires little maintenance. INSET: THE CHALLENGE.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of reaching a wilderness in Ontario by train in the middle of a night.

The article mentions the pack mule fishing adventure in Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness.

The article reports on how the journal joined Trout Unlimited on a tour of wild places of the U.S.

The article focuses on the important attributes in choosing the ideal site for a wilderness camp which include location and wind direction in the U.S. It warns not to pitch camp in a gully showing evidence of flash flooding or avalanche chutes. Moreover, wind direction is a key during hunting season since one will not want a cold breeze to howl the site.

A correction to the article "Best Wild Places" in the December 2010-January 2011 issue is presented.

The article presents tips and suggestion on things to avoid during a hunting and fishing in wilderness which include getting within a 100 yard range of grizzly bear, sharing a patch of wild blueberries with black bear and eating a freshly caught sushi on the boat.

In this article, the author offers suggestions on things to avoid during hunting and fishing in wilderness which include Canadian shore lunch, reading books written by Ernest Hemingway and try to catch fish having fangs.

A personal narrative is presented in which explores the author's experience of spending a night in a wilderness with enough firewood.

In this article, the author suggests to explore the wilderness in the U.S. in a boat and experience the adventure in exploring the unknown.

The article reports on the Outlaw Triangle which is made up of two places, the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam in northeastern Utah and the Little Mountain region of Wyoming which are home to trouts, elks, pronghorns and creeks and which are threatened by oil and gas drilling.

The article presents the six stages of the psychological syndrome woods shock, and offers tips for surviving this panic situation. The condition of woods shock often occurs in survival situations when hunters or hikers become lost in the woods. Disorientation, mental exhaustion, and panic are symptoms of woods shock. Planning and the will to survive are the most important factors to overcome the syndrome.

The article presents information on nature conservationists in the United States. Jeff Olson, president of his Safari Club chapter and the Black Hills Sportsmen's Club has proposed the government to make their backyard, South Dakota's Indian Creek area, the first grasslands with wilderness status. Similarly, Scott Christensen is fighting against J.R. Simplot Co., which is planning to expand a 14-mile phosphate strip mine into the Deer Creek watershed, one of Idaho's last strongholds of the near-threatened Yellowstone cutthroat trout. The excavated rock leaches selenium, a toxic element that kills trout eggs and can wipe out a stream's population in a few years.

This article presents tips to hunters when they are lost in wilderness. With a baseplate compass and at least two prominent landmarks indicated on one's map, one can determine the exact location in the woods. One can hold his compass at eye level with the direction-of-travel arrow (A) pointed at one of the landmarks (such as a mountain peak). Keeping the compass still, one can turn the dial until the north end of the magnetic arrow (B) lies within the orienting arrow (C). One can spread the map flat and place the compass on it so that one of the long edges of the baseplate intercepts the landmark.

This article presents information on igniting a fire when one is lost in wilderness. One can look around. Chances are very good that one will find the following natural tinders within sight to save one's life. Tinder Fungus is found under the bark of living birch trees, this is the only natural tinder that will readily glow from a shower of sparks. The bark that conceals it has a charred, shelflike appearance. Underneath, the fungus is light brown and corky in texture. To ignite one can crumble the tinder fungus into a cup fashioned from a curved piece of bark. Shower sparks directly onto it, using a flint and steel.

The article presents information about the effect of fighter jets on the wildlife in North Carolina. The U.S. District Court judge halted the construction of a U.S. Navy Outlying Field in the middle of eastern North Carolina. The plan to build the 30,000-acre practice field would site the runway smack in the middle of one of the most important winter migration stopovers for 22,000 tundra swans, 44,000 snow geese, and tens of thousands more ducks. It would see up to 31,000 fighter-jet takeoffs and landings in a year — just a few miles from the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, with overflight zones encompassing three other national wildlife refuges, a wilderness area, and the Cape Lookout National Seashore.

The article focuses on the column 'Young Writer's Contest' as published in the June 2004 issue of the periodical "Field & Stream." Nothing can turn one into a famous writer faster than a adventure story. This contest requires young hunters to write an essay of about 750 to 1,000 words about ones most thrilling hunting or fishing day. It could be a close call, a strange encounter with an animal or a heart pounding experience deep in the wilderness anything else to do with hunting.

Relates the flyfishing experiences of two friends in the wilderness area of the U.S. Discussion of the two about freedom; Reference to the plan of American do-gooders of turning the wilderness areas into Disney Worlds; Insights learned about the experience.