5 Smart Tips for DIY Prairie Pothole Duck Hunting

Freelancing the Prairie Pothole Region isn’t the open-door operation it used to be. Farmers now get a steady run of fall requests from people they’ve never met, located through mapping and permission apps and asking for access by phone rather than face to face, and the resulting frict...

By James Chen •

The Sierra Lake That Isn’t on Any Map

Below the snow-cross on the shoulder of Mount Tallac lies a lake that never appeared on a California map. People who knew of it called it Lost Lake, and the trout living there put up a harder fight than any fish I had hooked before. How I reached it, recounted in the November 1951 issue […]...

By James Chen •