Gilliland, Steve

A term often used around Christmas and Thanksgiving is “Seasonal Smells,” meaning scents like pumpkin pie, roasting turkey and the scent of pine; pleasant...

This week I heard the distinctive “pretty, pretty, pretty” spring song of a male cardinal, and Joyce saw her first robin. Usually when you...

I’m really telling my age here, but I can remember walking up the road with my dad to a couple ponds near our place...

A few years back we embarked on an adventure to build a simple and inexpensive deer feeder. A friend had an old unused fuel...

Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania was settled and named by the Delaware Indians as a campsite halfway between the Allegheny and Susquehanna Rivers. When German settlers arrived...

Ah, the exuberance of youth! A couple years back, I trapped coyotes for a couple weeks before deer firearms season in early December, with...

A couple winters ago, I was given the opportunity to do some nuisance beaver trapping at Turkey Creek Golf Course in McPherson. I’d been...

Several years ago when I began trapping beavers, one particular bend in a stream taught me a valuable lesson about wildlife sign. It was...

Years ago, shortly after I’d first moved to Kansas, I stored my boat for the winter in an airy old shed at my dad’s...

For the past few weeks, the skies around Inman and McPherson have resembled scenes from old war movies where the skies are thick with...