Chris Ellis

I often write about the importance of mentoring new hunters to our cherished outdoor lifestyle. It is a critical step and can often be a hurdle or a barrier to entry for new hunters. Sure, there are books and plenty of online resources. However, having a real-life human showing you the ropes can be all it takes towards a lifelong passion for all things outdoors and being an active participant in our wildlife conservation model. In fact, chances are, having someone take us hunting is how we all got our start.

Dr Susan Taheri encourages many patients to join her in her garden to help with their conditions.

Just because the calendars we use daily as reminders of work and life responsibilities will soon have a heading of 2025 doesn't mean hunting opportunities are over. In fact, January is one of my favorite hunting times of the year. For small game hunters, it is prime time for an early morning or late afternoon hunt for squirrels, grouse and rabbits, and for waterfowl hunters — ducks and geese.

The athlete travelled 874 miles in 45 days using a standard wheelchair.

As is traditional, I glanced at my memories from my 2024 hunting experiences to make resolutions at the start of a new year. Well, resolutions may not be the most accurate word, as many people have difficulty keeping them. I will replace resolutions with what I would like to see more of in 2025 regarding the lifestyle we, as sportsmen and women, adore — hunting, fishing and spending as much of my recreational time as possible in nature.

Like many things involving data, report cards are issued once a project or task is completed. They can be an invoice for services or simply a report showing the project's effectiveness. Perhaps an example may shed some light as to why I would start an outdoor column with such a strange paragraph about data.

This amazing winter sunrise made it well worth the effort that morning to be afield.

Many years ago, a famous outdoor writer and I went to Scotland to attempt a challenge based loosely on the Macnab Challenge to take a stag, a brace of grouse and catch a salmon in one day. The Macnab Challenge has its origins in John Buchan's 1925 novel “John Macnab.” The story follows three characters through boredom, or what we would call a mid-life crisis; they devise a plan to spice things up in their lives by risking their personal and professional reputations by attempting to complete their hunting and fishing challenge.