For thirty-nine years, I've been an outdoor communicator and fortunate to have met and spent time with some truly exceptional outdoorsmen and women: guides, outdoor educators, tournament anglers, seminar presenters and radio/television personalities who's taken their...
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“Of the Outdoors” America & the Outdoors Let’s keep it Clean By Gary Howey
Cassie Howey, the authors youngest daughter learned at an early age that the only thing you leave behind when you're in the outdoors is your footprints. The outdoors is a beautiful place, one I've loved spending time in since I was a kid, growing up just a stone's...
Nebraska Commission approves deer, antelope and elk hunting recommendations
LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved recommendations for 2019 deer, antelope and elk hunting seasons at its meeting April 24 at Ponca State Park. The most significant approved changes to Commission orders for big game include: — Addition of...
In South Dakota, Spring Means (Free) Fishing
Now that spring has (finally) sprung, maybe it's time to round up your family and friends and hit a local lake for some fishing! Winter was long for South Dakota's fish too and this time of year they are close to shore and looking to bite! Shore fishing can be good...
GAMEKEEPERS, TEACHING YOUR PUPPY TO TAKE A LINE
What is “lining?” Many define it as simply training your dog to go from point A to B in a straight line, but to us at GameKeeper Kennels, when training, this is only part of the story. We don’t teach lining as a simple one-step process, we teach it as a concept that...

“Of the Outdoors” “Legends in the Outdoors” Larry Porter By Gary Howey
This is the third in our "Legends in the Outdoors" columns, where we highlight those who have made significant contributions to the outdoors; anglers, hunters, outdoor communicators, others are some of the first guides on many of our lakes and rivers, while others...

“Of the Outdoors” No matter what the Weather It’s Gobbler Season By Gary Howey
The spring turkey season is here with the bow hunters doing well who were hunting gobblers this past month. Our Nebraska shotgun season opens Saturday the 13th, and with the flood we had in northeast Nebraska, there are numerous roads closed, soft muddy impassable...
FOOD PLOTS FOR GAME BIRD SUCCESS
Two aspects of wildlife management that are growing rapidly are the restoration of native habitat and growing crops with game birds in mind. I am of the opinion that “loss of habitat” may be the number one factor (on a list of many reasons) for the steady decline in...