The Upland Almanac Magazine - Autumn 2020

In this issue

This issue features Section 799.2: Recollection of My Fifty Years Hunting and Fishing; Lake County; The Scout: 2020; The Plumed Speedsters - Pacific Coast Range Mountain Quail; Public Access, Personal Success: Tips and Stories; They Will Always Be Blues; A Different Kind of Quail; Day's End; and much more.

Social Distancing in Wolf Country

A wolf howl makes my hair stand on end, every time.

6 mins

Joseph Defourny

One of Belgium’s Finest Shotgun Makers: 20-gauge Bespoke Side-by-Side

3 mins

Tastes Good, Doesn't Kill Me

Want some big flavor? Try stirring in some guts.

4 mins

From Recollections of My Fifty Years Hunting and Fishing

There are several reasons why I have written this book. I have hesitated to undertake it for a long time.

7 mins

Lake County

Good sage grouse country is vast by necessity. In Oregon, Highway 140 takes you there, where the soil sits on top of Miocene rocks, 17-million-year old basalts exposed by wind and water on the edges of sage plateaus. The dark igneous stones — earth’s prehistoric eyes — stare as you walk past.

6 mins

The Scout: 2020

It’s time for our annual preseason look at the habitat conditions, weather phenomena and bird populations across the Lower 48 states that will probably play a major role in the situations you face when you step into your favorite upland bird hunting spot this autumn.

10+ mins

The Plumed Speedsters — Pacific Coast Range Mountain Quail

It happens with a crack of a stick while walking in on a distant point; a covey explodes both left and right into the thicker stands of young Douglas firs.

8 mins

Public Access, Personal Success: Tips and Stories

Use it or lose it.

7 mins

They Will Always Be Blues

Dr. Ron Salomone from Ohio and a pair of grouse dogs soak in the view along a Colorado ridge top. (Photo/Michael Salomone)

7 mins

A Different Kind of Quail

The fact I have never been on a “classic” quail hunt was rubbed in again last October by a gentleman with some obvious Southern roots. He had pulled up his pickup behind mine as I exited a tangle of wild blackberries that loosely followed a small creek into a steep, rocky canyon.

3 mins

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