Clouds of ducks taking off from the Lone Oak Duck Club in western Missouri. Probably mostly mallards with a few shovelers, gadwalls and teal. But this video was taken in FEBRUARY! Where were they in November and December?? The guys worked hard all summer creating good waterfowl habitat and I’m glad the birds can use …
Category Archives: conservation
Kansas Wildlife & Parks magazine
This is my first Way Outside cartoon for Kansas Wildlife & Parks magazine. July/August 1998. If my math is right…and it sometimes isn’t…2022 will start my twenty-fourth year working with this wonderful publication. I’m thankful that then-Editor Mike Miller took a chance on me and did something goofy and I’m blessed that when current Editor …
More vintage outdoor sports cartoons
Here’s another six-pack of vintage outdoor sports cartoons from the ’70s. Three from that venerable icon of outdoor publications Field & Stream, one each from American Hunter, Sports Afield and Sierra Bulletin.
Captains For Clean Water
Captains for clean Water is on a mission to restore and protect aquatic resources for the use and enjoyment of all. Through education and advocacy they fight to ensure that policymakers implement science-based solutions to our water quality issues. One of the biggest barriers to fixing the problems facing Florida’s estuaries and Everglades boils down …
Southern Marsh Charters
Capt. Andrew Mizell is a third-generation Floridian. Born in Pensacola, he was introduced to the great outdoors at an early age. His father served in the navy, which gave Andrew the incredible opportunity to fish in numerous destinations around the world including Florida, Cuba, Bahamas, Tennessee Maryland and Maine. After his father retired Andrew set …
Big Fishweir Creek
While eating lunch on the deck at Harp’s Pub, which is only a few thousand yards from my house, you can look straight down into the murky waters of Big Fishweir Creek. This once navigable urban waterway meanders from Jacksonville’s trendy Avondale neighborhood under the Herschel Street bridge and into the Ortega River where it …