When it comes to the flora, fauna, landmarks, and historical items that states designate as official symbols of their heritage or identity, some make sense and some are head-scratchers. We’ve talked about multiple states claiming the same state fish ...
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Survival Garden 106: The Gardener’s Weekly Checklist
A weekly gardening checklist prevents “Garden Gone Wild” overgrowth in the backyard and ensures that your project gets the needed attention to produce the best veggies around. It’s all about watering, weeding, mounding, thinning, and guiding the ...
Montana Biologists Stumped Over Brown Trout Decline
Brown trout numbers are dropping across southwest Montana — and biologists don’t know why. Angling pressure, warming water, and the ongoing drought could all be reasons behind that widespread decrease across many of the region’s rivers, but right ...
At Least 100 COVID-19 Cases Confirmed on Mount Everest
What started as a seemingly isolated case has turned into a significant cluster of COVID-19 cases on Mount Everest. Nepalese officials deny an outbreak on the world's highest mountain, but Lukas Furtenbach, an expert guide and head of an ...
5 Cliff-Jumping Spots That Even Influencers Hesitate To Recommend
It takes a special kind of crazy to jump from a rock cliff 100 feet into water — crazy that's even crazier than the need to appease the 20,000-headed Instagram monster. Adrenaline junkies typically flock to well-known and well-documented ...
Calcio Fiorentino: The Sport So Hardcore It’s Only Played 3 Times a Year
In 1530, the Italian city of Florence was under siege. Having become a republic just three years prior, the most powerful men in the world decided they would capture the city and restore it to its former rulers, the Medici family. For nearly a full ...
The Real-Life Outlaws Behind ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hit the silver screen in 1969 and revived the guns-blazing legacy of two iconic outlaws of the American West. The movie starred Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford as the Sundance Kid and won four Oscars ...
Snake Bite 101: The Effects of Venom & How To Treat a Snake Bite
Surviving a snake bite is all about knowing what you’re up against. Venomous snakes can be found in warmer climates all over the world. Of the more than 3,400 known species of snakes, about 600 of them are venomous, one-third of which pose a medical ...
The Many Guns of John Wayne on the Big Screen
Throughout an acting career that spanned more than 40 years, John Wayne wielded a lot of guns on the big screen. Known primarily for his “cowboy” and western roles, the Duke is commonly associated with the Winchester repeating rifles. However, it was ...
Bonneville’s Fastest: Speed Record-Holders of the Flats
Unless you topped out on a motorcycle at 110 miles an hour at Bonneville at the age of 14, you don’t know shit about driving fast. That’s exactly what Karlee Cobb did in 2008 on the salt flats, and it put her squarely among some damn fast ...
Seeing in Animal Vision: The John Barklow Approach to Camouflage
John Barklow is a retired Navy diver with more than 20 years of experience operating the cold-weather training facility for Naval Special Warfare in Kodiak, Alaska. Barklow also is an accomplished big-game hunter and product manager for Sitka’s Big ...
Huge Bluefin Tuna Caught Off New Jersey Coast
It’s been a big month for bluefin tuna off the coast of New Jersey. Internal Fixation Sportfishing boated a 99-inch giant on May 3 after a five-and-a-half-hour fight. Not to be outdone, Capts. Gerard Faccone and Robbie Radlof stuck a 104-inch torpedo ...
French DJ Plays First Post-Pandemic Set at Nearly 10,000 Feet
In late April, if you had happened to be in the Swiss Alps at roughly 9,843 feet, you could have heard one of France’s popular DJs — Teho — spin a set. That’s right. French musician Teho went techno on the mountain. With only the Matterhorn, Mont ...
Starter Kit: Build Your Own Home Bow Shop With 8 Must-Have Tools
A loud bugle pierced the mountain air and woke me like a double-shot espresso. The bull was on a mission to confront another bull bugling in the background. I nocked an arrow and assumed the position as he appeared about 70 yards out from the timber. ...
Off Script Q&A with Lee Kjos: Outdoor Photographer, Waterfowl Legend
“Way back when I was a 20-year-old snot-nosed kid, I could have photographed the Allman Brothers. But an early cold front sent a wad of mallards south from Saskatchewan the morning prior. “Had plans to shoot Willie Nelson at the Saint ...
West Virginia Angler Lands New Muskie State Record
All it took was 15 minutes and some major luck for Chase Gibson to land a new West Virginia muskie record. The fishing guide caught the new state-record muskellunge, which weighed 39.6 pounds and measured 54 inches long, on Burnsville Lake on April ...
‘Sasquatch’: An Outstanding Docuseries That Isn’t Really About Bigfoot
Even if you don’t give a crap about Bigfoot, the new Hulu documentary series Sasquatch is worth watching. We’ve all been sucked in before by the first few minutes of those horrible History Channel “documentaries” about supernatural and mysterious ...
Why the Pipe Tomahawk Is Still One of the Coolest Weapons Ever
This might come as a surprise, but the amazing pipe tomahawk in these photos isn’t from a museum collection. It also wasn’t made 255 years ago. It was made this year, exactly like it would have been made 255 years ago, by three artists in ...
10 Outdoor Survival Skills That Everyone Should Master
The finest outdoor equipment in the world is of no value if you don’t know how to use it properly. Knowledge of key outdoor survival skills and when to pull them out of the bag trumps the best gear every time. Here are 10 indispensable outdoor ...
12 of the Hardest-Hiking National Parks
All national parks are deemed national parks because of their unique beauty and rugged nature. They are irreplaceable American gems that represent the frontier past of our young nation and the wilderness that we all have at our collective core. These ...
Chuck Wagon: The History of America’s First Food Truck
It’s not real cowboy coffee if you can’t float a horseshoe in it. In many instances, a mug of coffee was all the cattlemen had for a meal along the trail. After a long day in the saddle, exhausted cowboys set up camp only to immediately seek refuge ...
The 7 Oldest Pope & Young Archery Records
If you’ve spent any time with old-guard archery hunters at the local greasy spoon or in the garage after a day in the field, you’ve heard the words “there was a time when” on more than one occasion. Those words are faithfully followed by stories of ...
DIY Public Land .410 Turkey Slam in the First 2 Weeks of Turkey Season
Seth Gebo wasn’t planning to pull off one of the hardest things in turkey hunting. He connected with an Osceola in Florida on a buddy hunt a few days into the season. Then the lightbulb went off. With some last-minute plane tickets and a few hundred ...
Washington State Man Charged in Illegal 153-Person Grand Canyon Hike
Many people have struggled with how COVID-19 has kept them cooped up, but did this Washington state man go too far? Authorities say that Joseph Don Mount knew exactly what he was doing when he organized an illegal 153-person hike through the Grand ...
Discover the Life-Altering, Mind-Melting Power of a Wild Turkey Cheesesteak
A good cheesesteak will make you question your whole life and then scoop another dollop of Cheez Whiz. It's like driving too fast or smoking a cigarette — part of the appeal is flirting with the inevitable. It’s not a matter of if it will kill you, ...
Global Initiative Is Set To Map Big-Game Migration Routes
Every winter, migratory ungulates searching for forage travel distinct pathways ingrained in them since birth, traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles as they move between their summer and winter ranges. Man-made obstacles, such as roads and ...
China To Draw COVID Line at Summit of Mount Everest
Of all the risks climbers face when tackling Everest, COVID-19 is the one making headlines, this week with China marking a literal dividing line at the mountain's summit. There is no word yet how they’ll enforce this border at the top of the world, ...
Eustress Training: Keep Your Head and Kick More Ass
Would you rather feel overwhelmed by circumstances or challenged but in control? How about being able to kick more ass in the gym without destroying your body? With simple, effective workouts that build mental skills, you can train yourself to feel ...
Sliding on Ice: The US Bobsled Team on Crashing and Competition
Barreling down an ice-covered run and dropping several hundred feet in less than a minute while navigating sharp, banking turns is no easy feat, especially with four people crammed into a bobsled about the size of a kitchen table. Members of the ...
How to Make Moonshine: A Down-and-Dirty Guide to White Lightning
No matter how hard I try, I can never escape my redneck past. In fact, the older I get, the more I just embrace it. When you say the words “West Virginia,” three things come to mind: Marrying your sister, John Denver, and kick-ass moonshine. Let me ...
