Outdoor & Travel

Lavender Daze

Lavender Daze Submitted by 2 Wild Poppies Beneath lavender’s sweet facade is a tough, drought-tolerant perennial that is every gardener’s dream.  Lavender is most famously cultivated in the sweeping fields in the South of France, where it turns the summer landscape into a patchwork of purple.  But you don’t have […]

Shed Hunting

Shed hunting. Submitted by Julie Gabrielsonm, Nevada Department of Wildlife The great yearly, scavenger hunt for antlers shed by deer, elk, and moose. After an exhausting rut (mating season) in early winter, males in the elk, deer and moose species experience a significant drop in testosterone levels.  This triggers a specialized […]

ICE FISHING BASICS

By:  Joe Doucette For those anglers new to ice fishing, you are in for a surprise.  It is relaxing, quite easy and much more social than its warm weather cousin.   Contrary to popular myth, ice anglers can use pretty much the same gear that they use during the summer […]