Gilliland, Steve
Gilliland, Steve
Yet Another Kansas Crop 2017
I slowly shone the flashlight all around me then quietly took one step forward, gingerly placing my foot on the ground before panning around...
Gilliland, Steve
Kansas Birding Festival at Great Bend
Bird watching has never much appealed to me. Don’t get me wrong, I love birds as much as the next outdoorsman, especially hawks and...
Gilliland, Steve
The Greatest and the Smallest in the Kansas Sky
Well it’s time again for both the largest and the smallest birds in Kansas to make their spring appearances. Turkey Vultures, being of course...
Gilliland, Steve
A Big Bang, a Pot of Stew or Intelligent Design?
I’d set some beaver traps in a creek near the road, and since the ditches were really deep along there, I found the best...
Gilliland, Steve
A Lifelong Outdoors Lover
I get occasional emails from readers about stories I write, so seeing the email Sunday in my “in-box” was not unusual. The sender said...
Gilliland, Steve
Sometimes it’s the Little Things
As I sat on the back step this morning seeing the bright sunshine but feeling the brisk north wind, and wishing the weather would...
Gilliland, Steve
“Fur” the Love of Trapping
In the early 1970’s, in response to the need for an organization representing trappers here in Kansas, the Kansas Fur Harvesters was born, and...
Gilliland, Steve
Honor among Sportsmen?
As the old quote goes, “There is no honor among thieves.” I have never understood thievery, that blatant act of taking something that does...
