Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

Kicking off the 2025 deer season with a cold front that’s got the bucks on the move! Join me for the first sit of the year as we track early-season activity, weather patterns, and buck behavior. Could ...