Author: Ty Woodward Pursuit of the Hunter, the Conservationist, the Future It was a brisk spring morning on the Front Range of Colorado and the sun had not yet risen and would not for quite some time.  Muffled footsteps were heard across the cold hardwoods, while little boys and girls were awakened with a shake.  With tired eyes and argumentative cries they reluctantly put on their boots, and ate their breakfasts.  These kids, these conservationists and future of what we hold dear, had ...

Photo by Alex Missildine It’s a perfect morning. Songbirds are flitting in the branches near you, and wait, was that a turkey gobble? A red head telescopes above a fallen log ahead of you to the right. Piercing eyes survey the sloping terrain before his mottled neck retracts and the gobbler continues his march to the field edge. You ease your bow up and wait for him to emerge. He struts into the clearing just 12-yards from you. His proud chest is puffed out, showcasing the long, wiry ...

Image Vince Scott   Indiana’s turkey season is here! Like many of you, I will be taking to the woods and fields for the next few weeks in the hopes of calling in a cooperative long beard. In a world that is very different from the one we anticipated even a couple months ago, it’s a tremendous blessing that our access to outdoor opportunity remains mostly unchanged. As Hoosiers, we should count ourselves lucky as this is not the case across the country as a whole. The key now is to enjoy the ...

By Ben Orron   It’s 4:47 a.m. and my trusty three-year-old sounds the alarm. I bring her downstairs to her sleeping mother, then quickly dress for the drive to a mountainside turkey hunting spot. Two inches of snow have fallen overnight, coating the cold ground. My truck thermometer shows a crisp 17 degrees. After an impassable snowdrift halts progress up the logging road, I grab my shotgun and start the two-mile hike to an area holding roosting turkeys.  Just after sunup, I creep into an ...

        Written by Chyanne Davis   Michele White is an author, conservationist, and the owner of Tumbling Trout Fly Shop in Lake George, Colorado. On the surface Tumbling Trout appears to be a traditional fly-fishing outfitter. It is easy, then, for the typical patron to overlook the winding path to its inception After growing up in Aurora CO, Michele set out for New York with her bassoon in hand to pursue a degree in music. It was there with a goal of fine arts in mind, that the seed of a ...