Crows and Wildlife Watchers lose big
You can’t play if you don’t pay the ante or even have a seat at the table. That’s what wildlife advocates and bird watchers learned at the 7th and final public hearing on Utah crow hunting. Despite overwhelming public condemnation and apparent lack of supportive […]
Read more→Crows and Wildlife Watchers lose big
You can’t play if you don’t pay the ante or even have a seat at the table. That’s what wildlife advocates and bird watchers learned at the 7th and final public hearing on Utah crow hunting. Despite overwhelming public condemnation and apparent lack of supportive […]
Read more→Crow Hunt Quandary, Part Two
Last month, the simmering tension between diverse wildlife interests came to a boil as birders, nature lovers, and photographers squared off with hunters and the Wildlife Board. At stake, the future of Utah’s crow population. The Board voted to initiate a crow hunt for the […]
Read more→Crow Hunt Quandary, Part One
To understand the current brouhaha surrounding Utah’s pending crow hunt, it helps to know about the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. The model was referred to several times at the Utah’s Wildlife Board public hearing, where the board voted 3-2 in favor of the […]
Read more→Trail Trash Talk
Wilderness ethics meant “clean up after yourself” to me, decades ago. Back then, family “vacations” usually had something to do with trail maintenance. My dad was president of the Maine Appalachian Trail Club and led scores of service outings. Us kids were charged with clearing […]
Read more→Utahns Not Stressed, evidence shows
I stumble into this low cost hair-cutting place in Sandy because I have a coupon and because it’s next to another store, for which I have an even better coupon. I’m expecting savings. I’m not expecting a bizarre, Coen-brothers scene where something crazy happens and […]
Read more→A Mountain of a Man
I met Randall Ercanbrack on a morning walk in Provo’s Rock Canyon. It was early, but he was already coming down off the trails. Come to find out: Ercanbrack chugs up Y Mountain in Provo or West Mountain near Payson nearly every morning, carrying a […]
Read more→Ravens jerk my chain
Last month, I thought I was saying ‘Good-bye.’ The quintet of raven babies, born in a large nest atop a juniper tree just a hundred feet from the house, finally left their nest. For weeks, the young ones and their attentive parents had captured my […]
Read more→Ravens jerk my chain
Last month, I thought I was saying ‘Good-bye.’ The quintet of raven babies, born in a large nest atop a juniper tree just a hundred feet from the house, finally left their nest. For weeks, the young ones and their attentive parents had captured my […]
Read more→Breaking ice with beanbags
The Old Goat was one of my favorite leisure spots when I lived back in Maine. The Richmond pub became an even bigger fav when I learned about its regular games of cornhole. For the uninitiated, cornhole is a game of tossing bean bags onto […]
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