Our Outdoors: A year of lessons

The lessons learned coming out of the drought in 2022, where a wet spring spurred regrowth of upland

grasses and the thickening of the cattail sloughs which remained on the landscape, are many. Foremost among them came with the pleasant surprise of many upland hunters who found higher numbers of pheasants in their favorite stomping areas where good cover and loafing grasses reestablished over t...