Stewardship; Public and Private Initiatives; Regional
Take ‘Em Fishing, Year Deux
Many of you will remember our Take ‘Em Fishing contest last year. We wanted to encourage our avid anglers to make it a point to find someone new, or someone who had not fished for a while, and get them back on the water. Then all you had to do was snap a photo, submit …
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Father’s Day
Got a good Orvis video to share with you. It is appropriate for Father’s Day: If at all possible, take your dad fishing this weekend! You will never regret it. Let me dust off an old photo, one of a fishing trip long ago. A trip to Lake McConaughy with both my Granddads and my …
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Adorable Albino Fawn Spotted on Roadside
An albino fawn was spotted by a keen-eyed hunter who took some heart warming video. Yes, we’ve seen albino deer before, along with piebald deer and other forms of wildlife inflicted with some form of leucism. But finding a baby albino fawn is as heart warming as it gets and it may be a first
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Great American Outdoors Act Moves Forward as Senate Passes Momentous Bill
Things are moving along for the Great American Outdoors Act. On Wednesday the Senate passed the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act, hoping direct billions in resources towards support for outdoor recreation on public lands. The vote was 73-25, and the bill will now leave its fate to the House of Representatives. Specifically, the Great American
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My Turn
I posted a week ago that recently I had been out-fished by both my kids, Outfished. Here, I want to note that if you keep casting long enough, eventually things turn your way. My daughter was not with me on this trip, but my son was. In a couple of evenings, we did not catch …
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Wildflower Power: Promoting Pollinator Week
What you may not know about me is that I am a lover of wildflowers. Seeing, smelling, identifying and just being amid native wildflowers are on my list of my favorite outdoor pursuits in Nebraska’s landscape. And you know what? Those wildflowers are more important than ever! No, scratch that. Indirectly, those native wildflowers are vital to all life on our planet Earth! Allow …
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Stop the Presses, Big Fish, Second Week in a Row!
Got into the office this morning and found documentation for another state record fish. This was another notable catch, a big fish, a big popular sport fish! For years I have been saying that if our rod & reel record for hybrid striped bass, wiper, was ever going to fall, it was going to come …
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“Shoulda Been Here Yesterday”
One of the biggest tricks to being successful on the water or in the field is figuring out how to be in the right place at the right time. I know a good stick who once said he would rather spend a couple hours on a good spot at the right time than all day …
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Outfished
I am always thrilled to see folks introducing their kids to fishing at a young age, some of them at a very young age. There is only one thing I warn them about: Some day they will grow up and out-fish you! Recently, both of my kids caught their biggest walleyes, same day, same evening. …
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Breaking Down the Asian Carp Disaster
The U.S. has long been plagued by a terrifying horde of invasive species, from killer bees to pythons. But the harmless-looking Asian carp is a troubling sign that the worst may be yet to come. While there are plenty of candidates vying for the worst invasive species, the carp takes the crown for causing significant and
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Stop the Presses, Big Fish!
I am not going to say a lot about this because I am going to wait for the paperwork and official details. But, it has been mentioned on social media already. . . . My phone lit up yesterday afternoon. That is unusual for a Sunday. So, what was up? Well, reports were a potential …
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Home Work
Like many, I have been working from home for the past several years. Weeks, it seems like years. If I can connect to the interwebs, I can do pretty much everything I need to do. Yes, I can work from about anywhere–needs to me more of that from some beautiful fishing spot somewhere in Nebraska! …
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Cow Moose With the Munchies Finds Her Way Into Greenhouse, Digs In
Workers at the RustyRavin Plant Ranch had to shoo a hungry cow moose away from their cash crop. The RustyRavin Plant Ranch and garden center is based in Kenai, Alaska so that will address a few questions about this video right off the bat. It’s just that even the folks in Alaska have only so
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Birthday Bird
A week or two ago, I referred to my son’s adventures this spring being more notable than mine. I have shared some of them with you. With all the coronavirus “stuff” we have stayed close to home for weeks, months, but finally ventured out to celebrate my son’s birthday. As I always tell you, we …
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Sandhills Trumpeters
The marsh had a lot more cattails and bulrushes than most Sandhills lakes, concealing the trumpeter swans we were after. The swans themselves were doing their best to hide by swimming in a different direction than the large and loud airboat zigzagging through the marsh. So, when we burst through a wall of vegetation, and …
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Preserving the Pine Ridge
Catastrophic wildfires have ravaged more than half of northwestern Nebraska’s pine forests. Land managers are making strides toward a more sustainable future. On this sunny day, Bryce Gerlach is visiting a timber-thinning project at Gilbert-Baker Wildlife Management Area in the northwest corner of the state. Gerlach, who is a forester funded by the National Wild …
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Saving Saltwort
Returning salt to salt marshes. The state endangered plant saltwort grows in salt marshes in Lancaster County and nowhere else in our state. Unfortunately, decline of the marshes during the past 150 years has left this species hanging on by a thread. I held little hope of saltwort surviving in Nebraska until I recently learned …
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Wildwood Dam Work
Again in an effort to “spread the word”. . . . Some of you will need to know about this:
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