This story, “I Wanted It Wild,” first appeared in the October 1971 issue. It’s the first of the author’s stories from a series of moose hunts. THERE WERE TWO MOOSE on the shore of the lake, both cows.

A grassroots committee looking into the decline of the moose population in western Quebec is calling for the provincial government to extend its sports hunting ban in La Verendrye wildlife reserve, ...

I got skunked otherwise on my first moose hunt, but it turned out to be one of the luckiest trips I have ever made. It led to five wonderful hunts in the bush country of western Quebec at a time when ...