Gilliland, Steve

At my brothers cabin deep in the southern Ohio woods, carpenter bees, known there as wood bees are a big problem. They look for...

It’s fishing season again, and if the fishing experience in your pond needs “tuned-up” this is the time to do that. My friend whose...

Some friends recently asked me to help them figure out what was messing with some mouse and rat bait stations they had around the...

Admit it, we’ve all laughed like crazy at the videos of fish jumping crazily out of the water as a boat streaks across a...

Ever since I moved to Kansas I’ve heard fishermen talk about lakes, reservoirs and ponds “turning,” sometimes involving a fish kill, but always resulting...

  One of my editors who runs a monthly outdoor page suggested I do a column on “When wild animals encroach on your yard and...

Though advice about growing tomatoes might seem a stretch to be considered subject matter for an outdoor column, every outdoorsman I know grows a...

Over the years I’ve had many encounters with those jaunty little stilt-legged birds known as Killdeers. As a midwestern farm kid I can’t count...

  So here we are, it’s the first week of the 2017 Kansas turkey season and I can’t quite explain why I haven’t been chomping...

I slowly shone the flashlight all around me then quietly took one step forward, gingerly placing my foot on the ground before panning around...