Outdoor writer and photographer Corbet Deary is featured regularly in The Sentinel-Record. Today, Deary takes readers on a journey to Lake Catherine State Park.

From January through August, people who live in and near longleaf pine forests from Sandhills ... Fire improves habitat for animals including whitetail deer, bobwhite quail, and rare species ...

Rolling over the ridge that leads down into the Pine Creek valley I dropped into ... snow clouds across the western sky. A lunatic whitetail deer near ran into me as it decided to vault a fence ...

The prescribed burns will reduce competition to scrub oak and pitch pine by competing ... more open space on the forest floor. It provides excellent habitat for the American woodcock, ruffed grouse, ...

Belle Isle remains the biggest city-owned island park in the U.S., 40% larger than Olmsted’s better-known Central Park. It ...

Whitetail deer often make appearances at dawn and dusk, while barred owls call hauntingly through the night. During spring migrations, the forest canopy becomes a colorful ... from the main park ...

Chester Veach was on his first ever deer hunt when he killed what would become the largest nontypical buck ever tagged in the ...

It was there, on a cold gray morning in late November 1971, the second day of the Ohio deer season, that I killed the best nontypical whitetail ... of the Wayne National Forest, it’s about ...

on Christmas Eve with a replica of his whitetail he shot in 1995 in Franklin County. It is now officially the Kansas record for largest typical buck. Courtesy photo Matthew Daniels A 23-year-old ...

This is exactly what a prey species, like a whitetail deer, needs to survive in an environment full of dangerous predators with fangs, bows, and bullets—the ability to assess threats and quickly ...