The Genius of Fishing
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” -Oscar Wilde “If people don’t occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you’re doing something wrong.” -John Gierach In this world, there are two types of people—among myriads— who have always been on the fringe of society: Geniuses and Fishermen. These two may, at...
Winter Eclipse
Winter in Idaho feels like lock down to me. I realize the calendar says that Winter does not officially start until December 20th, but try telling that to Ol’ Man Winter. Come November, he already rules over Idaho with a frigid, iron fist. As an outdoorsman, Idaho becomes a frozen landscape during this harsh season...
The Miracle Half-Mile
The trouble with fire is that it indiscriminately consumes everything in its path. As alien cheat grass takes hold in Idaho’s high-plains, sagebrush desert, it’s great for chukars and chukar hunters, but hell on the sensitive sagebrush ecosystem. When cheat grass catches fire – which it does regularly – it burns fast and hot such...
