January CONSERVING WILDLIFE - SERVING PEOPLE FEATURES 18 Cures for cabin fever You don't have to spend the winter only indoors. 26 Small fish, big rivers Game and Fish samples for little fish in some of its bigger streams. 32 High-country reunion Long-time friends gathered this fall in western Wyoming for what could be their last elk hunt together. 18 26 ON THE COVER Trumpeter swans usually arrive on the section of the North Platte River known as the Miracle Mile in Carbon County a week before Thanksgiving each year. This image was taken last year of an adult male of a family of six. I captured the image by lying flat on my stomach at the river's edge on ice and snow to get the unique angle. Settings used for this photo: Canon EOS-1DX Mark III, 1/1600 sec, f/10, ISO 500. (Photo by Greg Bergquist) Wildlife | 3 38 ON THE BACKPAGE Steven Antonio, a University of Wyoming fellow with the Wyoming Wildlife Fellowship, gives a high-five to an attentive learner as fellow Adam Novak and Wyoming Game and Fish Department Visual Communications Supervisor Chris Martin teach shooting skills to kids before a UW football game. The skills trailer was one of many activities Game and Fish offered the public in the Indoor Practice Facility outside of War Memorial Stadium. (Photo by Patrick Owen/WGFD) 38 Late-season waterfowl January ducks and geese can provide a great hunting and viewing experience. GIVE A GIFT REGULAR SECTIONS 2 From the Director 4 A Couple Pennies 5 Mailbag 6 8 Opening Shot News 12 Inspire a Kid 13 Wild Kitchen 14 A Look Back 16 In the Field 46 Wild Country Dispatch Wyoming Wildlife | 3https://wgfd.wyo.gov/ https://subscribe.pcspublink.com/websis/GiftOrder?p=WWLF&tr=JGIFT