Upland Almanac Winter 2018

Welcome to our Winter 2018 issue! As many of you doubtless know, 2018-2019 represents the 100th anniversary of pheasant hunting in the state of South Dakota. ...Read More >

Tank pins down a covey of quail. ...Read More >

As part of our theme of exploring the rich history of 100 years of South Dakota pheasant hunting, check out this item from the Nov. 13, 1950, Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. ...Read More >

The Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society (RGS/AWS) announced the selection of Benjamin C. Jones as new President and Chief Executive Officer. ...Read More >

Early one crisp October morning several years ago, I left my cabin in northern Wisconsin to go hunt with my buddies in Michigan. With only about a five-hour drive ahead of me, and its being such a beautiful day, I decided to hunt my way across the Upper Peninsula, trying out new spots. ...Read More >

Getting pointing dogs to retrieve is a crucial issue for some owners and irrelevant for others. ...Read More >

Single-shot shotguns started showing up in the late 1800s as the shotgun shell was being developed, and breech-loading gun designs were being perfected. In most cases, it was easy to convert a single-shot, breech-loading rifle to a shotgun just by fitting the appropriate barrel and altering the firing pin alignment, head spacing and extractor engagement. ...Read More >

Chefs around the world are a generous lot with their recipes. We tend to be curious and hunger for new ideas or variations on familiar themes. So when my good friend and fellow chef Joanne Linehan checked in last winter with news from Yaak, Montana, the tiny community where she lives with her husband Tim, I was eager to hear what she’d been cooking. ...Read More >

At what point does your opening day fever reach … uh … fever pitch? ...Read More >

In 1932, on the first of several autumn hunting trips to Huron, South Dakota, Chicago Tribune Outdoors Editor Bob Becker became enchanted. He described “cornfields so crowded with pheasants that they were elbowing each other out of the fields onto the highway,” places “where the ringnecks are found by the thousands” and weed patches so densely populated that he and his companions saw “dozens of birds running ahead of us.” ...Read More >

It is one thing to read of the thick, tangled coverts that ruffed grouse call home and the difficulty this cover makes for gunning after the famed game bird; it is quite another thing to experience the north woods firsthand. ...Read More >

Get the picture. It was the second game of the 1944 World Series. The Browns had won the first game. The Cards didn’t look too good as the second went along. Max Lanier was shaky. The score was two-all going into the eighth. Then Mike Kreevich of the Browns, the first man up, poled a double. ...Read More >

I hit the road in November. But the trip had actually begun in October. Allow me to explain. ...Read More >

The medical community calls it dementia or worse – Alzheimer’s – with the latter supposedly being more debilitating. As I understand it, dementia is when you walk into a room and then don’t remember why. Alzheimer’s is when you can’t find your way back out of the room. Thus far, despite a family history, I’m pretty sure I don’t have Alzheimer’s, but it is an inarguable fact that I am slowly losing my … stuff. ...Read More >

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Among the Aspens: Stolen Moments in Secret Covertsby Thomas CarneyAmong the Aspens is the latest collection of essays on the outdoors from acclaimed nature and outdoor writer Thomas Carney. Culled from fifteen years’-worth of his award-winning “Ta... ...Read More >