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Wildness and Perfection
After high school in Baltimore, Maryland, Gordon Allen lived on Barren Island in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay and worked as a hunting and fishing guide while helping to run the island’s…
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The Honor Hunt
Beginnings and endings, beginnings and endings—these are all most folks remember in life. You remember your first day on the job, for example—when new colleagues giggled because you wound up…
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Rocky Mountain Memories
I wrote a book about my Brittany named Winston and our travels together and how he pointed all of North America’s 18 major upland birds, from Alaska to Mexico. My…
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Portrait of an Artist
On the door leading into the kitchen of California’s The Restaurant at Meadowood are the words, “He that would eat the Fruit must climb the Tree,” an adage that could…
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Guayascate
Every aspect of a visit to Guayascate is designed to ensure that hunting parties are delivered the ultimate in wingshooting opulence—even the dramatic setting differentiates this remote Argentinean venue from…
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La Portenita
Having experienced firsthand the fabulous Guayascate Lodge, I continued my Argentinean sporting odyssey to La Porteñita, a working estancia not far from the dove fields of Guayascate. Situated at the…
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Finding Elvis
Full disclosure: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool duck hunter from the Midwest. Nothing makes me happier than a mud-stanky Lab’s tail beating out a 4/4 rhythm on my leg with the clouds…
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Comfort in the Canyon
Tucked into Lawyer’s Canyon along the Clearwater River in the northcentral stem of Idaho is a haven of outdoor diversity—Flying B Ranch. “The ranch consists of a little over 5,000…
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Aldo Leopold
As a pioneering wildlife biologist, eloquent spokesman for the ethic of land management, insightful ecologist, best-selling author—in various editions, A Sand County Almanac has sold more than two million copies—and…
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In the Heart of Wine Country
Situated on 80 pristine acres in St. Helena, California, a town whose motto is “the heart of Napa Valley,” The Napa Valley Reserve may literally be just that: the very…
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Francolin
We leave scars on the land that never quite go away. Some change the land for better and some for worse. Farmers plow, plant, and build. Miners peel back the…
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My Alpha Brittany
It all started in the early 1950s. Back then, English pointers were the preferred bird dogs south of the Mason-Dixon Line, English setters were the grouse dogs of the North…
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