Gilliland, Steve

A couple years ago, students at Humboldt High School in southeastern Kansas noticed that a large colony of chimney swift birds was roosting in...

Every town has its population of feral cats. Let me be clear right up front, when I say feral cats, I’m referencing cats that...

This time of year, anywhere there are hedge apple trees, also known as Osage Orange trees you will find piles of greenish-yellow hedge apple...

In the early 1940’s the state of Kansas began purchasing land north of Great Bend, KS for what would become the largest inland wetlands...

A term tossed around by trappers and by people who work with fur is the word “prime.” When a fur-bearing animal’s fur is at...

     This week I had the opportunity to ride along with a young trapper who traps a couple hundred coyotes every year in...

I remember back in the 1970’s when the Ohio wildlife and parks were talking about transplanting wild turkeys in Ohio. I had 150 acres...

Twas the Night before Christmas   Twas the night before Christmas but our deer camp was shaken Not a hunter was happy cause’ no deer had been...

Deer rifle season began here in Kansas last Wednesday and I’ve put-off penning this week’s column hoping for a deer hunting story to tell....

The stories that are the most fun to write and to read are those stories in which the big buck is fooled and harvested,...