Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. The bowline is an ancient knot. It dates so far back historians can’t even pinpoint who tied it first, but what makes it so impressive is that it’s as important and useful today as it was to mariners, farmers, warriors, and hunters hundreds if not thousands of years ago.  So, why should you learn how to tie a bowline knot? Because if you spend enough time in the outdoors it’s almost a guarantee that at some point, you’ll need it for some minor or major task.…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics There have been a lot of arguments on the perennial question of whether, inch for inch and pound for pound, the smallmouth bass or the speckled trout is the gamer fish. Some have been pretty fair arguments, too, but they’re puny affairs alongside the ones I’m about to promote. For sheer fighting ability, brawn, guts, and endurance I nominate a finny character you likely rate very inelegant indeed. He is big-scaled and unlovely. His color is that of the bottom where he dwells. His mug is…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. An animal-rights influencer in Texas has announced a bounty of $10,000 for the identities of any Wyoming hunters who might lawfully kill gray wolves that venture outside Yellowstone National Park. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department called the bounty an “outrageous” attempt to harass hunters. Jonas Black of Austin published the reward to Facebook Wednesday. In a post of an AI-generated graphic titled “Wildlife Outlaws,” he offered a $10,000 reward for “information regarding anyone who would harvest [wolf] 1090F or a member of her pack.” …

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Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Fishing is supposed to be fun. That’s something I often have to remind myself of when I get too far down the tournament bass fishing rabbit hole and things aren’t going my way. It can be easy to just keep throwing the same old reliable baits, hoping for a bite on the same old reliable rod and reel. Sometimes, though, that’s a grind. When I find myself in this cycle, I break out of it by grabbing my bait finesse system, or BFS, gear. Now, at…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. The U.S. Forest Service has drafted a forest management plan for some 4.9 million acres of public land in Oregon and Washington that doesn’t address motorized vehicle access. Conservation groups and state agencies say this lack of off-highway vehicle and road regulation in the Blue Mountains will continue to force elk off public forests and onto private ground.  By omitting motorized vehicle access from the 356-page draft Environmental Impact Statement and skipping any supplementary travel management plans, USFS appears to be taking sides in an…

Senate Democrats are pressing the Pentagon for answers about medical care provided to service members wounded in the March 1 drone strike at Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, saying the Defense Department has yet to fully answer an earlier congressional inquiry or provide the results of the Army’s investigation into the attack.In a July 29 letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., joined by four other Senate Democrats and eight House Democrats, requested answers by Aug. 12 to 23 questions concerning medical care, casualty reporting, force protection and ongoing investigations related to the attack.Lawmakers say the Pentagon has not…

The nuclear-powered fast attack submarine USS Minnesota returned to Naval Base Guam on July 29, completing its first deployment as the Navy’s first forward-deployed Virginia-class boat.The successful deployment amplified the Navy’s ability to operate and employ advanced capabilities in the Indo-Pacific, a service release noted. The boat is one of four forward-deployed fast-attack submarines. The service’s Virginia-class submarines combine stealth, nuclear endurance and flexibility for both shallow and deep ocean missions. “Operating from Guam, this crew demonstrated the readiness, endurance and advanced capabilities the Virginia-class platform brings to … the Western Pacific,” Capt. Christopher Carter, commander of Submarine Squadron 15,…