03.27.2016 Sports North Fork Outdoors: With climate change, just seize the moment As our readers well know, the February-March transition period this year provided only limited opportunities for winter recreation in traditional eastern areas.
12.20.2015 Sports North Fork Outdoors: A gift-buying guide for the grizzled outdoorsmen Looking for the right gift for the outdoors person in your life? With the Christmas holiday fast approaching, your columnist sits at the word processor and looks hard for...
11.22.2015 Sports North Fork Outdoors: NRA’s mission has changed over the years Roseburg, Ore. Until a few weeks ago, the mention of this lumber and timber town brought back good memories. The stretch of the North Umpqua River between Roseburg and...
10.26.2015 Sports North Fork Outdoors: When a sacred location is no longer a secret In our brave new world of electronic awareness, no one hides. Thanks to iPhones, GPS devices and roving earth satellites, the old adage “Wherever you go, there you are!”...
08.30.2015 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Put some thought into those meals Certain features associated with outdoor activities can be good, bad, or ugly; this is especially true of meals that may add to or detract from days spent on the...
08.22.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: After 38 years, Marty Garrell is still loving the outdoors With the passing of “Focus on Nature” columnist Paul Stoutenburgh, the recent retirement of Louisa Hargrave’s “The Oeno Files” wine column and the previous semi-retirement of my own “The...
07.26.2015 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Advice for birders — follow bird dogs A couple of weeks ago we got a close-up visual on a hen black duck crossing a local state highway with her ducklings as we swerved onto the other...
04.26.2015 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Guess what boats and horses have in common Horses and boats have much in common. When you begin to fish frequently from small craft and subsequently sail on larger party boats, you see the obvious advantages of...
