V7N4 of Project Upland Magazine Winter 2025

The Winter 2025 issue of Project Upland Magazine reflects on the season of memory, connection, and authenticity in the uplands. The cover story, “An Upland Duo Decades in the Making,” follows wildlife biologists Frank Loncarich and Kyle Hedges through a lifetime of friendship, research, and quail hunting across the Midwest. Noah Davis offers a lyrical meditation on the misunderstood spruce grouse, while Ian Privette’s “Almost August” explores loss, legacy, and the lessons learned from a hard-running Brittany.

Gabriela Zaldumbide’s editorial, “Outsourcing the Soul,” challenges readers to preserve human creativity in an age of artificial storytelling, and A.J. DeRosa’s “A Fall of Memories” captures the bittersweet warmth of hunting familiar ground steeped in the past. The issue also serves up culinary inspiration with woodcock and porcini ragù pappardelle by Rossano Russo and quail tortilla soup by Jenny Nguyen-Wheatley.

Visually rich and deeply personal, this edition blends original artwork, evocative photography, poetry from Kirk Miller, and a new comic by Naomi Coates. From the haunting stillness of spruce woods to the snowy fields of Oklahoma, Project Upland invites readers to slow down, look inward, and find meaning in the winter light.

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