The world is in soft focus. Wind blows the snow sideways. Clouds cling low to the nearby hills. Yet to the east, the Absaroka Mountains rise as startling and steep as the hair on a mad dog's back.

Viroqua sits in the heart of the Driftless Area, where clear, cold freshwater filters through unglaciated limestone and sandstone, producing abundant spring creeks. “That provides extremely good trout ...

According to Montana author Norman Maclean, the only pure way to catch a trout is on a dry fly. After all, in the first lines of his A River Runs Through It, one of MacLean’s characters says that “all ...

Five years of drought has not been kind to the threatened spring-run chinook salmon on Deer and Mill creeks in Tehama County. The official count won’t be tallied for many weeks, but environmental ...

WASHINGTON — After a winter like the one that just passed, we all look forward to spring, and, finally, signs of the season are beginning to show. But what many don’t realize is that a handful of ...

Seminole County’s Spring Hammock Preserve isn’t far from urban Winter Springs and Lake Mary, but it’s possible for visitors to feel far removed from civilization when traversing the land’s flood plain ...

Marcus Maggard has spent most of his life exploring the beauty of the Ozarks in a canoe on the Current River. BRENT FRAZEE THE KANSAS CITY STAR The Ozarks region is renowned for its shallow, scenic ...