What this is
Still Hunt is about the parts of hunting and fishing that have nothing to do with the harvest. The stillness before the shot. The weight of taking a life. The way a river can quiet a loud mind. It's about the old practice of moving through a landscape as a participant rather than a tourist, and about what that participation does to a person who lets it.
The episodes are written, not improvised. Each one is an essay in the older sense of the word, an attempt to understand something by walking around it slowly. They run long, because the things they try to describe don't fit in a sound bite and don't want to.
Who's writing
I'm Cary. I've been still hunting the same ridge for a decade and wading the same river for longer than that. I don't claim any of this as expertise. I claim it as attention. What started as a way to be outside became, somewhere along the way, a way to be honest about being alive.
I'm not a guide, not a biologist, not a guru. I'm someone who keeps going back to the same timber and the same water and trying to put words to what I find there. If that's a thing you do too, in your own timber and your own water, then we already have something in common.
What you'll find here
The episodes are the heart of it. The Field Notes are a look at the data behind the animals and landscapes we care about: conservation status, migration, habitat, the strange precise language scientists use to measure how close a thing is to gone. The Explorer lets you search that data yourself.
None of it is meant to convert anyone. It's meant for the people who already feel the thing I'm trying to describe and have never quite had words for it. If that's you, you're the audience this was written for.