Herd Bulls
Late evening wind slips through the pines. Shadows begin their descent along the ground, to merge with the already growing darkness deep in the forest. On strong legs the old bull climbs to a high vantage point surveying his home range. Granite peaks rise to the west. Cloud shadows slide across the deep green of [...]

It has come to my attention recently that the word rut has more than just one meaning. The familiar phrase, ‘stuck in a rut’ is much of what I experienced over the last year – stuck in a rut from some personal bad luck. But, in the elk world it means quite the opposite – [...]
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