As the summer tourist season begins, record numbers of travelers will make their way to remote destinations across the plateau. This increased tourism also brings an increased burden to the fragile, sparsely-populated environment. The Lhasa-based Tibet tour agency Explore Tibet is committed to sustainable travel practices, and the agency has issued a set of guidelines for Tibet trekking. Prepare ahead [...]

Check out part three of this series on camp cooking with J. Wayne Fears by clicking here. J. Wayne Fears wrote the book on Dutch oven cooking. Well, one of them at least. He’s the author of The Complete Book of Dutch Oven Cooking. Fears grew up on Tater Knob Mountain in northern Alabama. His [...]

Brad Wiegmann isn’t one to sit around and wait. “Look at them,” he said, pointing with his rod toward a guide boat crawling across the massive flat. Every angler occupied a seat and gazed sleepily as the trolling rods cut V’s in the water behind the boat. “I’d much rather be doing this than just [...]

The Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP)and local boat insurance provider, Jack Martin/Avon-Dixon, encourage the public to join them in wearing a lifejacket to work on Friday, May 18. The State initiative kicks off National Safe Boating Week, May 19 to 23, by raising awareness on the importance of these life saving devices. “The simple act [...]

Pedal power drove the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Anti-Petrels birding team to a third consecutive championship in the 29th annual World Series of Birding in New Jersey on May 12. The team of three Cornell Lab staff cranked out 102 miles by bike and tallied 164 species in 24 hours to win the Carbon Footprint [...]

Business leaders in the recreational boating industry will be in East Lansing December 5-6, 2012 to the Kellogg Center Hotel and Conference Center for the 2012 Recreational Boating Educational Conference, produced by the Michigan Boating Industries Association. MBIA has added a second new “track” for dealers to the conference in partnership with the Marine Retailers [...]

In my 50 years of life I have owned at least 30 pairs of binoculars, 50 or more scopes and at least a dozen spotting scopes. That alone gives me enough experience to feel comfortable about voicing an opinion on Vanguard’s latest arrival on the hunting scene, the SD1042 Binocular. As a blogger I get [...]

While some landowners manage for bobwhite quail and work to boost wild bird populations across the state, they may not realize they are helping to benefit other bird species at the same time. Bobwhite quail have been experiencing drastic population declines across their range. Since the 1960s, quail populations have declined by an average of [...]

With three-wheelers, four-wheelers, two-stoke, four-stroke, air-cooled, liquid-cooled, and few million cubic centimeters divided up between them, there have been a whole lot of different ATVs throughout the last 30 years. If you want to know more about the evolution of the all-terrain vehicle this is the infographic for you! Click on the image below to get a closer look!

Not long before he died, my father made a comment to me seemingly out of the blue. “Son,” he said, “you have lived a marvelously misspent life.” He then explained the thinking underlying his statement, noting that I had been privileged to wet a line from Saskatchewan to South Africa, from Nova Scotia to New [...]