Among the Aspen: Northwoods Grouse and Woodcock Hunting

Following his English setters into thickets in search of grouse and woodcock, Mark Parman feels the pull of older ways and lost wisdom. How rare it is, in our high-tech world, to find oneself completely off the track, bewildered in the wild, and then find the path home by sight and scent and memory.

Among the Aspen interweaves tales of companionable dogs, lucky hunts, and favorite coverts where quarry lurks with ruminations on the demise of hunting traditions, the sale of public lands and the privatization of places to hunt, the growing indifference to science, and the loss of wilderness on a planet increasingly transformed by the sprawl of humanity.

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Among the Aspen: Northwoods Grouse and Woodcock Hunting

Following his English setters into thickets in search of grouse and woodcock, Mark Parman feels the pull of older ways and lost wisdom. How rare it is, in our high-tech world, to find oneself completely off the track, bewildered in the wild, and then find the path home by sight and scent and memory.

Among the Aspen interweaves tales of companionable dogs, lucky hunts, and favorite coverts where quarry lurks with ruminations on the demise of hunting traditions, the sale of public lands and the privatization of places to hunt, the growing indifference to science, and the loss of wilderness on a planet increasingly transformed by the sprawl of humanity.

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Among the Aspen: Northwoods Grouse and Woodcock Hunting

Among the Aspen: Northwoods Grouse and Woodcock Hunting

by Mark Parman
Among the Aspen: Northwoods Grouse and Woodcock Hunting

Among the Aspen: Northwoods Grouse and Woodcock Hunting

by Mark Parman

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Following his English setters into thickets in search of grouse and woodcock, Mark Parman feels the pull of older ways and lost wisdom. How rare it is, in our high-tech world, to find oneself completely off the track, bewildered in the wild, and then find the path home by sight and scent and memory.

Among the Aspen interweaves tales of companionable dogs, lucky hunts, and favorite coverts where quarry lurks with ruminations on the demise of hunting traditions, the sale of public lands and the privatization of places to hunt, the growing indifference to science, and the loss of wilderness on a planet increasingly transformed by the sprawl of humanity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299317584
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 04/17/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 184
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Mark Parman is the author of A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac and a contributor to A Passion for Grouse. He is a member of the Ruffed Grouse Society, American Woodcock Society, and Loyal Order of Dedicated Grouse Hunters. He taught English for many years at the University of Wisconsin–Marathon County in Wausau and now lives near Seeley, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Among the Aspen                    

The Wilderness Covert                      

 

North

June Road: Ben and Jerry                  

The Triangle               

Yellow Gate: The Tragedy of Easy Access               

 

South

Badwater Creek: Against Grouse Hunting                

Elbow Creek: Windfall                      

Homestretch Patch                 

An Iowa Cornfield and the Wisconsin Woods                     

Legacy: On Hunting Public Land                  

Red Bud Road: Banding Woodcock            

Swamp Loop: Just a Thimble of Meat                       

Swanda’s                   

Transylvania               

 

East

Ackley: Losing Myself, Finding My Way                 

The Fire Tower                       

Lake Ament: Body Count Grouse                 

Left Lot Covert: Reflections of a Left-Handed Shooter                  

Old Man Covert                     

Redemption Covert               

Serendipity                 

The Singing Fields                 

Storybook Covert                  

 

West

The Bermuda Triangle           

Berry Covert              

Ghost Covert             

Jesus Covert               

New Wood: Among Wolves             

Paradise Lost             

Somewhere in Clark County              

 

Home Covert             

 

Acknowledgments

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