Gilliland, Steve

In 1998, Connie Storrie, caretaker of the Kansas Wildlife Exhibit at Central Riverside Park in Wichita, was given an orphaned baby bobcat. She named...

Last spring I spoke with Bryan Sowards, the KDWPT Fisheries Biologist in my area, and got a crash course in reading and interpreting their...

In this column I try to remain neutral on most political issues unless I feel too strongly about something to let it slid; such...

The staccato chopping sounds of helicopter blades echoed across the gorges, drawing everyone’s eyes skyward as the little chopper appeared as a dot on...

Are you aware that new words are officially added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary each year?  Now I realize society creates new “expressions” all the...

I make few if any new year’s resolutions, but this year I’ve decided that 2019 is the year when I will take up smoking....

One of Groucho Marx’s more famous lines was “I once killed an elephant in my pajamas; what he was doing in my pajamas I’ll...

Although it has absolutely nothing to do with the outdoors, I still feel the need to ask you all to observe a moment of...

When coming home late from an every-other Wednesday night commitment in Hutchinson, we’ve frequently seen deer, rain or shine, summer and winter along a...

My wife has a fascination with identifying road-killed critters, so in an attempt to pad our retirement nest egg (which I believe long ago...