OCTOBER IS HERE. Yippee. This is a special month every year when cooler air will arrive in due time. Oct. 1 had a day length for central Iowa of 11 hours and 46 minutes. By the 31st, day length will have shortened by 1 hour and 21 minutes to just 10 hours and 25 minutes. Earth’s orbit ...

Oct. 1 is the traditional start date for the regular deer hunting season for archers. However, youth hunters age 15 or younger do have an earlier time frame that began on Sept. 20. If they do not fill a tag early, the opportunity to use the tag during later seasons remains valid. As the ...

GREAT IMAGE opportunities sometimes fall into your lap. They seem to shout “here I am” and wait for you to admire those special moments, with your eye, or your cell phone camera or a higher end 35 mm camera. No matter how that mixture of the subject and lighting came to be, you were ...

PHEASANTS are a huge deal for Iowa upland bird hunters. This year marks the 100th anniversary of pheasant hunting in Iowa. It is one case of an introduced species from Asia that adapted very well to its release in 1925 across much of the United States. Many states jumped on the bandwagon ...

Happy LABOR DAY WEEKEND. I trust you will be making the most of a long weekend as the end of summer nears. If you are fortunate enough to have three days off from work, how will you spend that time? There are lots of ways of course, and each person may have a special task or two, a great ...

Native grasses, those very tall and sometimes mysterious straight stemmed grass species, are beginning to show well as they strut their stuff. Some, like Indiangrass and Big bluestem, have now reached 6 or 7 feet in height. They wave and sway in the wind, pulsating back and forth as if ...