Real Hunting

This story was originally published in the Fall 2021 issue of Backcountry Journal.   By Gary VandenLangenberg   With a natural love of animals and a curiosity for all things wild, my oldest son Forest grew up like many of you. Our yard and the cattail filled ditch behind our house was his arena of exploration and discovery, he and his younger brother Lake constantly flipping over our landscape stones looking for worms, pill bugs and other creepy crawlies. When Forest was 5 years old, I ...