In The Outdoors

There was a time when you had to travel as far north as Canada to hunt a wolf, but that changed Monday when the Idaho Game & Fish Commission established a harvest limit for the state’s first public wolf hunting season. That season is scheduled this fall and is open to nonresident hunters.

What was once the Desert Lake Shooting Club in Boulder City is about to be saved from extinction and given a new name. In June, Desert Lake members were notified the facility would close by the end of the month. The reason was never given, only a vague allusion to an unsuccessful lease negotiation.

The sun was just lightening the eastern horizon as we made our way out of Boulder Harbor and Mike O’Donnell pointed his pontoon boat toward the northern tip of Saddle Island. That wasn’t our destination, but it was a good waypoint along our route to Government Wash. With the water so low, Mike could easily see the whitewashed rocks against the dark water as he guided the boat around the point.

Whether you use them to haul your big game back to camp or for exploring Nevada’s backcountry, owners of off-highway vehicles soon will have a little more paperwork to complete before they can take their motorized toys out for a spin. With the passage of Nevada Senate Bill 394 during the recent legislative session, state law will mandate the registration and titling of off-highway vehicles.

Some guys have all the luck. They always catch fish. They always draw a big game tag. They always bag the biggest bucks. They always get the girl.

Is it a world record or isn’t it?

Just as the argument is heating up over whether Nevada should legalize rifle scopes for use during muzzleloader-only hunting seasons, the company that turned the muzzleloading world upside-down with its Knight Rifle has closed its doors.

If someone told you 20 years ago that the day would come when politicians felt it necessary to introduce legislation to protect hunting on public lands, lands in which we all share ownership, what would you have thought? Well, that time has come.

Though I hate to admit it, my body has no problem telling my mind I’m getting older. I no longer can do some things as easily as I once did, whether it’s my knees that ache at the mere thought of climbing a steep slope in search of a chukar covey, or my fingers that don’t work as well in the cold.

There are two kinds of people who participate in Nevada’s big game tag draw: those who draw a tag, and those who don’t.