San Jacinto Wildlife Area threatened by massive housing development
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com A huge 25,000-person development with over 8,000 new homes along the south edge of the San...
Dove hunting season opener this Friday expected to be good across whole region
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The dove hunting season opener on Friday, Sept. 1, is expected to draw more than 55,000...
Dove hunting opener is largest participatory event in the world
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com On September 1 each year approximately 3/4-million hunters take to the field across the nation...
California Sportsfishing League is asking anglers to take survey, help reverse angler decline
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The California Sportsfishing League (CSL), an advocate for making recreational fishing more...
Eastern Sierra icon, former-owner of Ken's Sporting Goods in Bridgeport, Rick Rockel died July 2
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com An Eastern Sierra icon had died. Rick Rockel, the long-time owner of Ken’s Sporting Goods in...
National Park solution: Kill all the mountain goats in Washington’s Olympic National Park
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Over the past week, I have struggled through reading much of the mountain goat management plan...
Youth Safari Day attracts over 4,000 kids and family members
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The nine-year-old girl was tucked behind her mother’s leg peeking out at what was unfolding in...
Postcard from The Matthews Ranch: Coyotes
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com I’ve been spending a lot of time on a relatively postage stamp-sized piece of ground that is...
How well-designed rifle cartridges have met with undeserved deaths
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com There was a time when I wanted Winchester to come out with a .270 Winchester Super Short...
California gun owners win first round in a pair of rights battles
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Gun owners have won the first round in a pair of gun rights battles that are being waged in...
