Jim Matthews outdoor column | outdoor-news-service 8/13

Youth waterfowl hunt Feb. 3-4, many special events planned

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com There will be two youth-only waterfowl hunting days next weekend, a weekend after the close of...

Giant bluefin tuna back on the bite

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com While the interest from anglers waned over the holidays, a few sportfishing boats along the...

Public should have greater access to Carrizo Plain Ecological Reserve

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com How can the public get more and better access to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s...

Is California now a sanctuary state for mountain lions, too?

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The Department of Fish and Wildlife is losing its collective mind, joining the legislature and...

How to make a simple, but effective, clothes pin quail call

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com I am notoriously cheap. Years ago a friend gave me a very nice Iverson wooden quail call that...

San Jacinto Wildlife Area management plan and environment document finally released

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com After more than a decade of waiting, the San Jacinto Wildlife Area management plan and...

A Christmas card from Joe Sportsman

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com For over 30 years I received a simple Christmas card this time of year that was signed by Joe...

Angeles shooting ranges and Moore N’ Moore Sporting Clays Range ravaged by Creek Fire

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Most of the range facilities at the Angeles Shooting Ranges in Little Tujunga Canyon,...

Remembering and passing on the outdoor life at Christmas

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The first Christmas cards are already trickling in. I am of that generation that still sends...

Mountain quail are the bird hunter’s ultimate trophy

By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Mountain quail are a bird hunter’s ultimate trophy. I spend at least three of four days a bird...

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Catalina Island Conservancy moving forward with deer eradication plan without permits

Doves or Dinosaurs?

Do you remember when grayling were caught in Lobdell Lake near Bridgeport?

How the government tried to prevent bighorns from being killed on desert road

Is the Second Amendment now just a ‘loophole’ that needs to be closed?

Spotted bass at Lake Perris once broke all the records, but now they are gone

Deer hunting in Sierra Nevada is a boost to local economies

Ridgecrest Quail Forever chapter providing wildlife water over 30 years

There was a time when trophy browns prowled the waters of Lake Silverwood

Salton Sea: A journey from the best fishery in California to a dead sea