The Southern Willamette Valley’s Outdoor Magazine
It’s a Friday afternoon in February, and our NWAC weather forecasts come bearing good news. A forecast of several new inches of snowfall means the group text is popping off with weekend plans and ecstatic friends.
“One of the great things about making up lists of obscure objectives to pass the time in the rainy season is that the crowds will be elsewhere.”
This past year I started taking a closer look at what I ate on backcountry trips. I asked Nicole Joyce, a nutritional expert and digestive health coach for help understanding better ways to fuel during these expeditions, and she shared some mind boggling insights.
Although hunting and conservation may seem at odds with one another, hunting and the conservation movement are intrinsically tied to each other, and this connection is often summarized by a simple phrase: hunting is conservation.
The first time you hear a grouse flush, you would think something is jumping out of the brush at you. Seeing a small, rotund chicken-sized bird fly through the woods at thirty plus miles per hour seems physically impossible and ridiculous.