One way for people in our area to envision the Great Smoky Mountains is to think of our Laurel Highlands on steroids.The Smokies straddle the Appalachian spine like a rumpled blanket draped over a low-hanging clothesline. The northwestern slope is in Tennessee, while the southeastern flank lies ...
If you’re a turkey hunter, you may have noticed something, or rather a scarcity of something, while traveling around the district this spring — wild turkeys.In our region we’ve grown accustomed to seeing big springtime flocks strewn across fields and pastures, gobblers fanned out in ...
It would be a stretch to call it a case of man improving on nature, but the West Virginia golden trout does catch the eye. So, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources is sponsoring Gold Rush 2021 to promote outdoor tourism and trout fishing in the Mountain State. Between March 23 and ...
<strong>I</strong>f you were assigned to pick one wild creature that symbolizes winter in our region, you could make a strong argument for the blue jay. This familiar and abundant songbird is equally at home in suburban backyards and remote forest, but thrives best ...
The climax of the outdoor year for many ended yesterday — the “regular” firearms deer season. Now we can get on with Christmas shopping, selecting a tree, and wrapping presents in festive paper. Unless, of course, you’re fortunate enough to have a deer hung up to skin, butcher, and wrap ...
“Social-distance” is a phrase we never imagined a year ago but, to deer hunters, it comes naturally. The expression carries a clear negative tone, but there may be no more pleasurable way of separating from other humans than spending a day in the airy open woods looking for deer.That ...
