Flashing red and blue lights sent me a strong message: I was busted. I’d just passed a truck as I drove into a small, southwestern Oregon town and neglected to slow down to 30 mph. I got a ticket. Deterrents work, yet there are places where deterrents don’t reach, and drivers of all-terrain vehicles know […]
Mike Beagle
Posted inWotr
Give a child the gift of a strenuous life
It was late fall, and my 8-year-old daughter and I stood at the bottom of a brushy, 300-foot cliff and talus slope overlooking Blue Lake in southern Oregon’s Sky Lakes Wilderness. For me, it was a short climb. For a little girl much smaller than me, the hill looked downright colossal. But I knew something […]
Posted inFebruary 1, 1999: Saving the Platte
Stereotyping hunters is easy
Dear HCN, Thanks for providing an open and honest forum so that we can discuss the myriad issues, such as hunting, that affect the West. In recent issues I’ve read Stephen Gies’ whiny diatribe about the “macabre act of hunting” and Marc Gaede’s bizarre but hilarious evaluation of the human male. I fit their stereotype. […]