Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” I suspect that deer were not eating Mr. Emerson’s corn, or ...

The year was 1913. It was winter, and near Belle Lake, in the woods that would become Piepenburg Park, 14 armed men, some of whom were charter members of Gopher Campfire Club, prepared to rid the ...

In 1990, Stan Richard bought a Studebaker that his wife, Gloria, rode in as a child. That purchase was the driving force behind a whole new hobby and social life for the Alinda couple to enjoy during ...

Former Wichita mayor Vince Bogart gets the biggest kick out of the raccoons in his backyard — the ones he used to trap and have carted out to the country. Until he felt sorry for one raccoon who had ...

I WAS desperately tired of people — even the benevolent and harmless people with whom I usually associate. It was n’t that they had n’t been nice to me. Old ladies had lured me to church socials with ...

Every spring across our great state and throughout the west, young and old alike take to fields and pastures to shoot the second most important group of animals to North American wildlife. Prairie ...

I just heard Sen. John Thune of South Dakota and Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana justify the continued sale of military-style weapons like AR-15s in order to keep down the varmint population. Query: Is ...

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Gov. David Ige, pictured, and the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) unveiled the new Zipmobile at a press conference earlier this month. The new machine cost $1,953,000 and will be the ...