CONTRIBUTORS
ANDREW MCKEAN
CHAD DOTSON
JEFF LUND
STEWART MONROE
ANDREW MCKEAN
Andrew McKean has worked
and played as an outdoor writ-
er for the past 30 years. A for-
mer newspaper reporter and
editor for Fishing & Hunting
News, he worked for Montana
Fish, Wildlife & Parks before
joining the staff of Outdoor Life
as Hunting Editor and then
editor-in-chief. McKean, who
lives in northeastern Montana,
was recently named Western
Hunting Journal’s Conservation
Editor where he will report on
hunting issues affecting the
West. In this issue, he address-
es chronic wasting disease,
arguably the greatest modern
threat to America’s deer herd.
His story can be found on page
54.
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STEWART MONROE
Stewart Monroe was born in
the Northeast and grew up
hunting and fishing the Pocono
and Adirondack Mountains
before coming to Oregon in the
mid ‘70s. He continued with his
life passion in the great North-
west where you’ll find him
fishing on the coastal rivers,
Columbia River and tributaries.
If not fishing he will be hunting
across the state for waterfowl,
upland birds and big game. Al-
though not guiding any longer,
his passion is taking friends
and family on outings and then
cooking gourmet meals of the
harvest. Stewart was fortunate
to experience a record-setting
Rocky Mountain goat hunt this
past fall and assisted with a
youth hunter setting his name
in the record book. Stewart’s
story appears on page 60 of this
issue.
CHAD DOTSON
An avid hunter who lives in
Joseph, Oregon, Chad Dotson
has been a part of many epic
big game hunts throughout
the West. And one of his most
memorable hunts took place
in New Mexico where on the
last day of his hunt he killed a
respectable bull. It fell short of
the book, which led Dotson to
write about hunters’ obsession
with making the B&C record
book. He writes about that
topic intelligently in this issue
starting on page 72.
JEFF LUND
Jeff Lund moved to Alaska
when he was five and spent his
childhood riding his Huffy to
the river and returning with
a salmon dangling from each
handlebar. At least that’s how
he remembers it. He returned
to Alaska in 2013 after stops
in Arizona for college and
California for a job. He is a
freelance writer and English
teacher in Ketchikan and has
replaced the bike with a truck
because a deer wouldn’t fit on
the handlebars. Jeff and hunts
throughout his home state of
Alaska where his primary fo-
cus is hunting Sitka blacktails
and black bears on Prince of
Wales Island. In this issue, he
writes about hunting deer on
POW Island, found on page 66.