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fields and woods
A nearby faraway
Standing outside the woods, peering into it, became ritual
blood trail game
Blood brother
A hunter explores the relationship between himself and the deer
dead blackjack oak
What we once thought timeless
Will the familiar rhythms of nature still be here tomorrow?
fox squirrel
First kill for a young heart
The taking of a life, no matter how small, calls for reverence
snake
The snake advocate
Catching of venomous snakes by nonexperts is stupid—monumentally stupid
squirrel tail clousers
Squirrel tail clousers
In case you thought squirrels were only good for eating
wild turkey in woods
The mountains are calling
The gobble of a wild turkey is a blend of science and magic
ozark creek
Headwater
The Ozarks thrust up while creeks slowly carved hollows and ridges
smallmouth bass fly fishing
Eternal summer
Defining that persuasion that drives us to the creek
Buffalo River Arkansas
Downstream
This is not where you put a massive, manure-spewing industrial hog farm
Freshwater drum
The new normal
Are you ready for it?
Gray squirrel
The legend of Ol' Hickory
A combination of cunning and brawn make the perfect creek predator
Sunfish
Sunfish
Teacher, savior, dinner
Ozarks Creek
Through my veins
What do the creeks mean to you?
Richland Creek
Be water
Taking cues from nature's greatest force
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    Shut up and fish

    A decade or so ago, my buddy Kirk Deeter, now a colleague of mine at Trout Unlimited, flew north to Lake Athabasca for some serious late-summer pike fishing.

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  • PHOTOGRAPHY

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    Photos: Earl Harper and Chad Shmukler, Words: Chad Shmukler.

    When leaving the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires' international airport, you'll see groups...

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  • TRAVEL

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    How to drink your way through the fishing day: South Padre Island, Texas

    The grass and sand flats of the Lower Laguna Madre might be the most productive flats system, outside of the Florida Keys, in the contiguous U.S. But that doesn't mean the...

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  • CONSERVATION

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    The dumbest mine on earth is one step closer to reality

    What do you get when you mix an estimated $300 billion worth of recoverable gold, copper and molybdenum together with a governmental system of application and permitting...

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  • REVIEWS

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    Review: Redington GRANDE fly reel

    I can still remember my first "real" fly reel. As a brand new fly angler, I had dumped almost every penny I had into a rod—a handsome, noodley 5-weight Diamondback that I...

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  • TIPS

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    mexico permit
    Shut up and fish

    A decade or so ago, my buddy Kirk Deeter, now a colleague of mine at Trout Unlimited, flew north to Lake Athabasca for some serious late-summer pike fishing.

    ...

    view article

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    The School of Trout is back, and bigger, in year two

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  • NEWS

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    The dumbest mine on earth is one step closer to reality

    What do you get when you mix an estimated $300 billion worth of recoverable gold, copper and molybdenum together with a governmental system of application and permitting...

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    Patagonia launches Action Works to help bolster conservation activism and involvement
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    Surprise, surprise: more proof that hatcheries harm wild steelhead
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