Jun 17, 2025
“At first the Euroamerican settlers
could not fathom the tallgrass prairie.
Stepping into it from cropland-speckled woodlands to the east, they
entered
a land of sky and horizon, wind and light, flower and scent, a
surging sea of
grasses that staggered the imagination. The prairie grasslands
seemed to
stretch on...
Jun 3, 2025
Everything you will ever need to know to win any argument about the future of our American public lands--special and crucial episode with Walt Dabney.
Understanding the background and history of our public lands is critical to safeguarding them for the future.
Texas-born Walt Dabney started his National Park Service...
May 20, 2025
“[David Joy]is a man who sees his homeplace clearly and who writes like his hand was touched by God.” — The New York Times
Novelist and essayist David Joy is a tall, lean and red-bearded denizen of the hollers, mountain tops and ridges of Jackson County, North Carolina. He is an obsessive turkey, deer and...
May 6, 2025
Public lands and waters have risen to the forefront of hunter-angler issues in 2025, from Utah's attempted steal of 18.5 million acres of land owned by us all and managed by the Bureau of Land Management to divestment and sale of public lands being floated in Congress and the shrinking of the Federal workforce charged...
Apr 22, 2025
When Mandela Leola Van Eeden was a child roaming the South African outback, her father would run a flag up a tall pole above their cabin so that she and her dog would be able to find their way back home. Her mother is from Valier, on Montana’s Hi-Line, and Mandela grew up mostly in Billings, steeped as much in the...