Hunting & Fishing

First published on The Upland Soul. It’s common knowledge among avid upland hunters that game birds follow boom-or-bust cycles that are largely dependent on the habitat and climatic conditions in their home range. You can add all the guzzlers you want and reduce bag limits to near-zero, but unfortunately, there’s only so much that can

First published on The Upland Soul. When I let slip to the uninitiated that the hunt I look forward to the most each year is rifle javelina in February, they usually look at me with a mixture of curiosity and blind confusion, as if I had finally assumed the final form of radiation-basted Nevada desert

First published on The Upland Soul. I had been looking forward to the limited sage-grouse season all year. NDOW had closed orreduced most of the sage-grouse seasons in the Silver State this year, and with the continuingdownward trend of lek attendance and overall population decline not boding well for theimmediate future of this pursuit, I