I drove to a different area up higher in elevation near the snowline… I slept in my van that night, feeling a little guilty that I had likely wasted a tag someone else could have put to better use.

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.