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What is the Anthropocene and Why Does it Matter? I was eight miles deep in the backcountry of the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon...

Currently, there are about 640 million acres of public land in the United States – roughly one quarter of the country’s entire acreage....

“Most children have a bug period, and I never grew out of mine.” -Edward O. Wilson, Naturalist If you know me, you know the outdoors have...

We ended our last newsletter with a few questions about how the hell we ended up here. I told you the opioid crisis that has now claimed...

I got addicted to heroin by what I call the “Standard American Opioid Story.” I had been experimenting with drugs pretty heavily in my...

The Real History of Conservation and Environmentalism in America Here in the United States, we love thinking in binaries. Some linguists...

What to bring along and what to leave in the truck. I meant to do this post before the season started, but I’ve been so busy hunting and...

And the Secret to Catching Trophy Trout on Heavily Pressured Waters As a lifelong fisherman, Nick Zebrowski has taken some memorable fish...

Above, two deer at night in Binghamton University's Nature Preserve Photo Credit: Woodson Valentino Photography Back in February, I sat...

I've been super busy with working on my first book, so it's taken me a while to finally sit down and write everything I learned this...

It’s the time of year when a lot of folks get a case of the winter blues. There’s still plenty of ice fishing, small game...

"Human beings are led to believe so many things in the modern world: that we are outside of nature, that city life is preferable, that we

I waited to write this story until I knew for sure it was over, at least for this year. On October 30th, I bought a Pennsylvania archery...

This is a story that almost didn’t happen. A few days ago, while hunting with my brother and my dad at our family cabin, I shot the first...

I didn’t write much last week because I was out doing what I love, hanging from a tree, playing the chess match that is hunting for...

I tried to retire from the Salmon River this year. I had turned down a few trips to go up there and told people I thought I have had my...

Anyone who knows me well knows I’ve been fishing a lot less lately. I went out less than ten times this whole season. People have asked...

I grew up in Northern New Jersey, which is much more rural than people who haven’t been there would imagine it to be. As kids, we grew up...

Last fall, my brother shot a bear. A big bear. Near the border of North Jersey and New York. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it initially....