Cover: Two young anglers fish
near sunset at Birdwood Wildlife
Management Area near North Platte.
Photo by Julie Geiser
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Volume 97 No. 4
May 2019
F E A T U R E S
20
SADDLING UP OUT WEST
Story and Photos by Justin Haag
26
OUTDOOR NEBRASKA
What to Do in May
By Renae Blum
28 OUTDOOR SENIORS
Edited by Jeff Kurrus
34
THAT'S WATER-CLOVER
not a lucky four-leaf clover
Story and Photos by Gerry Steinauer
36
RETIRING LURES
By Ryan Sparks, Daryl Bauer, Jeff Kurrus, Jake Jadlowski,
Eric Fowler and Larry Kurrus
40
DO-IT-YOURSELF
DRIED ARRANGEMENTS
By Renae Blum
42
50 YEARS at the Cornhusker Trapshoot
By Julie Geiser
46
A FARM BOY COMES
TO OMAHA, 1988
By David L. Bristow, History Nebraska
O N T H E W E B
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6 Your Nebraska
10 In the Field
48 Mixed Bag
60 Portraits from the Past
62 The Last Stop
D E P A R T M E N T S
PHOTO
BY
JUSTIN
HAAG