Black bears are getting a black eye in many neighborhoods around the country. For some residents, bears have become a bit too friendly for comfort, leaving their natural habitat and bringing the great outdoors to the back door.
Women are the fastest-growing segment of the angling, hunting and shooting world. Fueling the jump in active outdoors women are the many classes held throughout the year to teach them to cast and shoot.
The third-annual Women in the Outdoors event is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at the North Slope Ranch near North Powder. The event is sponsored by the Baker County Longbeards and Four Rivers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.
Nothing opens the gate to the great outdoors quite like the beginning of summer. With warmer weather, more free time and an innate need to get outside, many people become interested in a host of outdoor activities, and there is no place like Colorado to pursue them. Within a short drive of Pueblo - or within the city limits - one can partake in hiking, mountain climbing, fishing, mountain
We are a country given to easy homage of its "lunch-bucket" workers, but not much is offered them beyond that. The media rarely do long profiles on the men and women who build steel barges outdoors in January for a living.