BERNIE KUNTZ
Remembering piano recitals 
Always festering in the back of my mind prior to our family’s June Canadian fishing trip was the May piano recital at St. John’s Academy. Brother Jim and I had to survive the recital to enjoy the fishing trip.
By Bernie Kuntz , May 04, 2012
The economics of hunting and fishing
Last week I sent a far-too-large personal check to a lodge in Alaska to book a fishing trip for Laurie and me, and it got me to thinking about the shaky economics of hunting and fishing.
By Bernie Kuntz , April 27, 2012
Black bears remembered
The first black bear I ever saw was in Yellowstone National Park when I was 11 years old. I still remember it — a bear sitting on its haunches while a brainless father was trying to capture a photograph of his toddler daughter waving a stick at the bear … definitely not a good way to behave around a bear.
By Bernie Kuntz , April 13, 2012
Cherished spring ritual fulfilled
A stiff wind blows out of the southeast, a pair of flags along the gravel road to Canyon Ferry Reservoir are flapping straight out in the breeze, and angry, three-foot waves are everywhere on the water.
By Bernie Kuntz , April 06, 2012
Essence of hunting and TV garbage
His name was Jack O’Connor, a native of Arizona who received a M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri and in the 1930s and taught journalism at the University of Arizona. He began writing for Outdoor Life magazine in that same decade, and was paid $200 a month.
By Bernie Kuntz , March 30, 2012
Cast iron pans a wise investment
Last year Laurie and I drove all the way to Texas to deliver fish, my mother’s china set, a boyhood rocking chair and other things to daughter Katrina and her husband. But I forgot to include one of my five cast iron fry pans that I had planned to give her.
By Bernie Kuntz , March 23, 2012
Hypocrisy over energy policy
You may have seen Steven Chu, Department of Energy Secretary, testifying before a Congressional Committee last week on gas prices. This guy, a former Berkeley physics professor who says he doesn’t own a car, admitted that the Obama Administration wasn’t really concerned about rising gas prices, but was more focused on “developing alternative, renewal energy sources.”
By Bernie Kuntz , March 16, 2012
Challenges of hunting out West
Laurie’s niece, Jessica, told Laurie we’d be getting a call from an FBI agent based in Chicago, a friend of Jessica’s husband, and that he wanted to talk to me about “hunting out West.”
By Bernie Kuntz , March 02, 2012
SPORTS AFIELD: Best of the Big 3
SPORTS AFIELD magazine is celebrating its 125th year of publication this year, and it continues to be the best of the “Big Three” outdoor magazines, the other two publications being Field & Stream and Outdoor Life.
By Bernie Kuntz , February 24, 2012
Montana’s bison debacle continues
The convoluted mess that passes for bison management in Montana and adjoining Yellowstone National Park has been an embarrassment for as long as I’ve lived in this state, which is 26 years.
By Bernie Kuntz , February 17, 2012
Forever a rabbit hunter
It is called Como Bluff, and archaeologists dug up dinosaur bones there early in the 20th Century. Someone told me about the spot located northwest of Laramie, Wyo. and in the 1970s I drove the 100 miles from my modest house in Cheyenne and explored the site.
By Bernie Kuntz , February 10, 2012
Funding agencies and other pitfalls
One of the most onerous tasks of a state wildlife agency employee is to convince the hunting and fishing public that a license fee increase is a noble and necessary idea.
February 03, 2012
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