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Byline: Bill Heavey; Steve Williams (Q) With Interior's emphasis on privatization of lands, how are we going to be able to maintain good levels of public access? (A) You have [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Hunting deer at the very end of the season is the one time in your life when being a little bit nuts actually works in your favor. [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey A guy I know actually did the following things this past year: --Locked himself out of his car (twice). --Dropped a brand-new Leatherman Wave into 24 feet [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey 'We're always on the lookout for meat,' says Laura Rhea, president of the Arkansas Rice Depot, a food bank serving 300 church pantries across the state. She [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey I went to a cocktail party the other night, an activity I don't particularly recommend. For certain men, temporary incarceration in a small space with strangers pretending [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Nobody was home to stop me last Saturday, so I watched bass shows on cable television for six hours. That's right, six straight hours of rod-bending, line-stretching, [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Judy Dulin and her husband, Granvel, former tobacco farmers in Crofton, Kentucky, bought into a plan from Oklahoma-based B&B Worm Farms: For a $10,000 investment, B&B offered [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Imagine you and a friend paid $5,000 to chase elk in Wyoming. You knock down a 380-class elk, only to have it claimed by other hunters when [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Things get kind of slow in my neck of the woods around now. Even the bass get bored. Average daily highs in the slow-roast range have pushed [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Television executives couldn't believe their good fortune in the past few years when the American public gobbled up reality-based shows like Survivor, Temptation Island, and The Bachelor. [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey The fish strained left, ran right, jumped, and tried to shake the hook, then darted under the canoe to sulk. It made a last furious run, trying [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey The dogs are free-casting along a wash at the bottom of a nameless canyon in the Atascosa Mountains a few miles north of the Mexican border, silently [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey What do you do when the follow-up shot fails? Apparently, you sue. When professional hunter Rolf Rohwer had to follow up a terrible shot a client made [...]

Toxic algal blooms blanket mile after mile of beach, shuttering tourism economies built largely on world-class fishing for tarpon, snook, redfish, bonefish, and snapper. Thirty-five miles south of my tarpon glory at Cape Sable, I'm being fed a steady diet of humility, thanks to picky bonefish ghosting the edges of a broad flat west of Islamorada. We drift in the dead center of one of the most critical flows of water in all of South Florida, where the outfall from the Shark River slough wraps around the state's peninsular tip, funneling fresh water into the vast estuary of Florida Bay. Gray Ghosted Irregular influxes of water from Florida Bay have displaced populations of bonefish from their home range. [Extracted from the article]

F&S surveyed dozens of top deer guides to pick their brains on late-season buck behavior, top tactics, favorite gear, and more. "Unless you are getting a consistent pattern during the morning hours from a particular buck, you'll probably do more harm than good by hunting the morning, because you're apt to bump deer. Hunt scrapes just ahead of the second rut, then try intercepting a buck on the downwind edge of prime doe bedding areas." "A head-up doe decoy will spook does, but a head-down doe decoy in a feeding position - in a corn- or bean field, say - can help bring bucks out a little sooner.". [Extracted from the article]

Plenty of work and an unprecedented demand for qualified employees in A/E firms are driving up architect's wages at all levels, according to a recent survey conducted by Orinda, California-based [...]

The average cost of building a new elementary school in 1999 jumped a whopping 21 percent over the previous year, to $9.2 million, according to a survey by American School [...]

Preservation-savvy real estate agents have a competitive edge when it comes to selling historic properties. And preservationists figure that educated homeowners make better stewards of historic properties. Such is the [...]

The numbers are in, and they're very, very good. Bonuses for A/E firm principals jumped 50 percent in the past two years, according to a survey conducted by Zweig White [...]

AS A KNIFE GUY OF MORE devotion than knowledge, I was delighted last October at scamming my way into a by-invitation-only show in Nashville, Ark. The Micro Invitational, a.k.a. the [...]

AS A HUNTER, I live a paradox that many of us feel but rarely talk about. It's this. While I love the hunt, I dread the kill. That this idea [...]

NOVEMBER IS KNOWN for two important holidays, Thanksgiving and Black Friday, not necessarily in that order. Thanksgiving is a traditional family holiday and the one day of the year it's [...]

EMMA AND I ARE in the car, which parenting experts say is a good time to talk to your teen, especially if you have automatic door locks. Monk? You've probably [...]

Survival tricks to get you through the apocalypse. Or not ONE DAY VERY SOON, the world as you know it is going south. Your Wi-Fi crashes in the middle of [...]

I THOUGHT I'd left the Potomac behind when I moved away a couple of years ago. It turns out that the river does not practice catch-and-release. It's barbed water. In [...]

ON ELECTION YEAR like this one leaves a person thirsty for reassurance that courage and decency still exist. I found this very thing in a desk drawer recently--on an oral-history [...]

IT IS ALWAYS a privilege to be in a deer camp and to witness the old rituals that never get old: a boy too excited to sleep the night before [...]

You can spend hundreds on a tsunami-proof rain jacket. But when all you want is something to keep in the truck or stuff in a pack to keep you from [...]

Nothing beats the feeling--your heart full of hope and anticipation, your senses already working overtime--of sneaking into the whitetail woods in the dark-dark. Electricity and flashlights have made us such [...]

The Shenandoah Valley in Virginia is a virtual haven for fly-fishers and and trout anglers. Tourists interested in fishing sports and canoeing can avail of the services offered by firms such as the Shenandoah River Outfitters, River Rental Outfitters, and Angler's Lie.

PHEASANT HUNTING is, by any rational standard, crazy. You spend a bunch of time and money getting to someplace like South Dakota, where they have tons of birds and the [...]

I AM BLESSED in having a mate who understands I basically lose my mind from mid October until the first of the year. During this time, for example, the importance [...]

ON CASE YOU EVER get thrown in jail-- and I'm not suggesting that you do--you probably already know which of your friends you'd burn your one phone call on. If [...]

WHEN A MAN ORDERS himself some new camo in one of the 'scientifically based' patterns--which are way better than the 'musically based' or 'Italian Renaissance-painter based' patterns of just a [...]

EMMA IS 15, the age at which she wonders why it took so long to see that you, her father, are an idiot. It's not just that you are clueless [...]

I JUST TURNED 60. Or, as Michelle puts it, 'More like 15 for the fourth time.' Having just spent a year being 59, I had a pretty good idea which [...]

SOMEBODY AT the Camp Fire Club of America invited my friend Steve Burnett to its 2015 Spring Encampment, an annual outdoor-skills competition at the club's 233-acre preserve, and he invited [...]

FIFTEEN MONTHS AGO, Michelle and I-in the great American tradition of utter financial cluelessness--bought a house twice as large and expensive as we needed or could afford. Now we're putting [...]

I DON'T USUALLY tell people this, but I'm a life coach to some of the best-known names in the industry. You know that fishing show with the host who talks [...]

RECENTLY RETURNED from the annual SHOT (Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade) Show in Las Vegas. It's a four-day orgy of stuff you don't need. Yet. But if the marketing guys [...]

THE MOST ORDINARY deer stand can somehow turn itself into a spiritually powerful place. I don't pretend to understand how this works. I do know that you can climb into [...]

'I WAS ONE OF FIVE KIDS BORN TO HIPPIE PARENTS who discovered they really didn't want to have five kids after they had them. We always had cereal and milk [...]