Speaking with my family and friends in the Bay Area makes me realize how strict the stay-at-home/shelter-in-place orders are. Face masks are required if you go into any grocery store, restaurant or any other essential business, and in my home county...
The following is courtesy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife: The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has detected the state’s first cases of a potentially crippling hoof disease in two Roosevelt elk from a resident herd in...
Clear Lake, California’s largest natural freshwater body of water (and that’s located entirely within the state’s borders, with apologies to California- and Nevada-shared Lake Tahoe), is a special place in my heart. I’ve been there many times, particularly in my younger...
The following is courtesy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife: A California judge recently ordered a Calaveras County property owner liable for damages after their tenant committed environmental crimes in conjunction with a cannabis operation. Under Fish and Game...
In the dog days of stay-at-home orders, I was watching Jaws and I found myself rewinding the scene when Martin Brody, Matt Hooper and Capt. Quint, who spent the last hour or so of the film basically hating on each other,...
The following appears in the May issue of California Sportsman: By Chris CocolesA decade after his dad – iconic crab fishing captain and fellow Deadliest Catch alum, Phil – passed away suddenly at 53, Josh Harris is still chasing his ghost....