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blog BY Josh Duplechian ON June 17 - 0 COMMENTS
Wonder
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Ty Churchwell   There is innate wonder in a boy, in any boy. We look at a mountain and wonder if it can be conquered. We see an old oak tree and wonder how high we can climb. For whatever reason, boys just need to be the masters of their environment, to be victorious over challenges. As we [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON June 14 - 0 COMMENTS
Costa's "Films on Tap Tour" under way
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If you're an avid fly fisher... a wannabe fish bum... and you haven't seen the suite of Costa films yet, here's your chance. Through July, Costa and its sponsor Budweiser are taking the renowned films "GeoFish" and "Jungle Fish," as well as it's series, "The Take," on the road to craft breweries [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Josh Duplechian ON March 8 - 0 COMMENTS
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper speaks on the Thompson Divide.
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In one of several stops on the western slope of Colorado yesterday Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke on behalf of the Thompson Divide and the discussion of letting oil and gas leases expire. Articles done by the Denver Post and the Aspen Times both quote him speaking directly to the beauty of the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Josh Duplechian ON March 7 - 0 COMMENTS
Colorado Roadless Article
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“Perhaps the rebuilding of body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for of what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?” Arthur Carhart—widely regarded as a pioneer in wilderness protection—posed that question [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Two natives, two friends, two streams
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  by Tom Reed New country and old friends. A foundation, a beginning. An idea. Each year we’d each pick a stream on our borders, a thin blue line of water splashing from high mountain hold in country without roads, and few trails. If it were easy, we thought, anybody could do it and the fishing [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Philosophy of the sporting life: A meditation on why.
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Editor's note: This is part of an ongoing series by members of TU's Sportsmen's Conservation Project. For more, visit www.oursportingheritage.org, a site dedicated to protecting our backcountry resources.   There was a summer I spent as a wild child in the mountains of Iowa. There are no mountains [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Tis the Season of the Sportsman
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  The wind came up quite early this morning. It rus­tled through the trees out­side my win­dow, gen­tly thump­ing the blinds as it con­tin­ued through the streets. It was a sub­tle sign, but a sign nonetheless. It’s fall. We’ve been see­ing small hints here lately – small twinges of gold in the [ READ MORE... ]
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