DIVIDE - Jack Kirkley scans the forest canopy through binoculars, looking through the treetops for a glimpse of the new goshawk nest he knows is nearby. The beeping sound grows so intense on his radio ...

The Boke of St. Albans, a 15th-century sportsman’s handbook, decreed that only a nobleman could hunt with a falcon, but a mere yeoman might settle for a goshawk. These days it is the very wildness and ...