Steve Gilliland

I figure I’ve written this outdoor column long enough by now that I’ve earned license to ramble a little, so here goes. Most of...

I drove back a craggy rutted lane that follows a mostly-dry creek bed into a pasture dotted with big overgrown cedars. The creek bed winds...

As a hunter, fisherman and trapper, I know that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a very powerful, wealthy, politically active animal...

It’s fairly common that traps set for bobcats remain empty for a while, (at least it’s common for my bobcat traps to remain empty for...

While not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, there are always things to improve upon, so I thought this week I would pen a...

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

About this time each year we begin to hear and read stories that all center on the illegal taking of Kansas wildlife. Whether it’s...

A couple years ago after catching my last bobcat of the trapping season, I laid it on the pickup tailgate and marveled at the...

The first year I trapped beavers in Kansas was a terribly dry year, yet I found a rogue stretch of river just north of...

  Two years ago at a spring conference in Topeka, Lea Ann Seiler, Economic Develop Director for Hodgeman County heard a presentation about a very...