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Last week we were pleased to hear about the Trust for Public Lands buying out 58,000 acres of oil and gas leases from Plains Exploration and Production Co. in the Wyoming Range, a unique swath of land in western Wyoming, home to irreplaceable big game herds, native fish and the irreplaceable type [ READ MORE... ]
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Blog Post BY ON October 10, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
The Feather Dance
We who live with gun dogs stumble through life up to our lanyards in hopeless debt. I’m not talking about the inescapable vet and feed bills; those obligations can be paid off. But how do you repay a companion who happily produces 110 percent every day of her life, often in the most gawdawful [ READ MORE... ]
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Blog Post BY ON October 4, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
The apprentice
Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series by members of TU’s Sportsmen’s Conservation Project. For more, visit www.oursportingheritage.org, a site dedicated to protecting our backcountry resources.
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Blog Post BY ON September 27, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Two natives, two friends, two streams
 
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Gallery BY ON September 27, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Backcountry
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Video BY ON September 27, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Backcountry
Blue lining border wars: Video from a trip into the backcountry. Go to www.oursportingheritage.org to read Tom Reed's blog post about it.
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Blog Post BY ON September 27, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Two natives, two friends, two streams
New country and old friends. A foundation, a beginning. An idea. Each year we’d each pick a stream on our borders, a thin blue line of water splashing from high mountain hold in country without roads, and few trails. If it were easy, we thought, anybody could do it and the fishing would be a thin [ READ MORE... ]
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There was a sum­mer I spent as a wild child in the moun­tains of Iowa. There are no moun­tains in Iowa, you say? Tell that to my younger self.
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Blog Post BY ON September 26, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Tis the Season of the Sportsman
Large racks of antlers peek out from blue tarps in the beds of pick­ups on the high­way. Blaze orange signs pro­claim­ing a friendly wel­come and a cold beer plas­ter the front of every bar. Large, heavy streamer boxes are unearthed from the bot­toms of boat bags. The soli­tary crack of rifle shots [ READ MORE... ]
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