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California Upland is a Sunday newsletter for hunters who love the birds they pursue — valley quail, chukar, dove, mountain quail, pheasant, sooty grouse, band-tailed pigeon. We write from the field about California’s upland country: where to find birds, how to read habitat, what gear actually works, and how to protect it all.

One email each Sunday at 6 AM PT. No more than that unless something time-sensitive is in front of us — an opener, a regulation change, a fire on a hunt area.

Written by Matt Gehrmann and Peter Burnham, both based in California, both with bird dogs underfoot. We started California Upland because the national upland press treats this state as an afterthought, and we wanted a place that didn’t.

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