

National Park Service decides to ban hunting in Castle Mountains Monument
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Hunting is now banned in the new 30,000-acre Castle Mountains National Monument, according to...


Outdoor Christmas gifts that last a lifetime
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com When my two sons were children, they would get squirrelier by the day as the hours ticked...


Christmas trees past and present
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com My wife Becky agreed that our huge, old artificial Christmas tree was being used its last...


Quagga mussels discovered in Pyramid Lake
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com With the discovery of quagga mussels in Pyramid Lake in northern Los Angeles County this past...


San Bernardino County plants started two weeks ago; Prado Park is not getting trout this season
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The San Bernardino County Parks Department kicked off its trout stocking season the Wednesday...


New products announced for Christmas in the Matthews Whole Outdoors Catalog
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com It continues to amaze me that some regular readers of this outdoor column have never...


How can we improve our local deer hunting?
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com There have been photos of some tremendous bucks come to me electronically this year. These...


Topoc Marsh hog removal proposal is a gross waste of wildlife funding
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com This is why people hate government. The Lake Havasu National Wildlife Refuge staff has...


#CalExit, the popular movement for California to succeed from the Union
The link below takes you to a piece I did for my good friend Bob Rogers' GunProPlus website. https://www.gunproplus.com/?p=33446 [Jim...


Too many big game hunters neglect real-world field-shooting practice
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com As most big game seasons wind down, the horror stories have been rolling in from hunting...














