Shaking walls and whistling winds woke me around 7 a.m., and my ambitions to chukar hunt in the heart of the nearby badlands ...

It's said that your first chukar hunt is a bird hunt; every hunt after is to seek revenge. Chukar hunting is not for the weak of leg nor faint of heart and is demanding on both hunter and birddog ...

“Turn around … check it out,” a friend said to me 30-some years ago. His words have resonated with me ever since on a variety of levels. At the time, we were plodding up a steep talus slope in eastern ...