J. Wayne Fears is a wildlife biologist by training and former editor of Rural Sportsmen magazine. Fears has written more than four thousand articles for the Southern Sportsman Journal, Turkey Call magazine, Great Days Outdoor magazine, Whitetails Unlimited Magazine, and a number of other publications. He built his own log cabin almost seventeen years ago and has been enjoying it ever since. His favorite getaway is an Alaskan trapper's-style cabin on his property in Cross Creek Hollow, Alabama.