
First hunting season
of fall kicks off July 1
with cottontail opener
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Out on the Matthews Ranch I’ve been seeing a familiar pair of red-tailed hawks on a big nest...

20th Youth Safari Day to be held July 21 at Mike Raahauge Shooting Enterprises
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Last summer, I wrote a story about my experiences with kids while running a quail call making...

The latest chapter in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's battles over water in East
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has announced that water historically...

Mojave Preserve extends comment
period on plan to remove guzzlers
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Yet again, the Mojave National Preserve has extended the comment period on its disastrous...

Raahauge’s Shooting Sports Fair is
back after not being held last year
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com CORONA -- The Raahauge’s Shooting Sports Fair is like Lazarus. It just keeps coming back....

Mojave Preserve water management plan is called ‘affront,’ ‘erroneous and incomplete’ in public comm
The Wild Sheep Foundation called the Mojave Preserve water management plan "insufficient to ensure persistence of bighorn sheep within...

The dying art of fishing natural bait for stream trout (and a primer on the same)
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com When I was a kid, back before every urban lake in Southern California was planted with rainbow...

Opening week brown trout from Sierra
brings out the catch-and-release snobs
Matthews released this big brown caught years ago in Crowley Lake, but isn't that a personal choice? By JIM MATTHEWS...

Mojave Preserve staff says
guzzler removal proposal
is not written in stone
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com BARSTOW -- Todd Suess, Mojave National Preserve superintendent and other Preserve staff,...

California law attempts
to ban hunting for
‘iconic’ African species
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com It is called the Iconic African Species Protection Act, SB 1487, and was introduced into the...