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A ghost wolf on a beach in Texas.
Wildlife Management

Texas Is Working to Save Its Remaining ‘Ghost Wolves,’ Which Carry Extinct DNA

By Dac Collins

An Etsy wild fur seller, Maine Wild Harvest Co., who is pulling their business off Etsy.
Wildlife Management

Online Retail Giant Bows to Activists by Banning Fur Sales. It’s Hurting Conservation and American Trappers

By Natalie Krebs

A wolf exits its crate in Colorado.
Wildlife Management

More Than Half of Colorado’s Reintroduced Wolves Are Dead. Can the Program Survive Another Year?

By Dac Collins

A caribou herd in the Yukon.
Wildlife Management

If Corporations Can Be Considered ‘People,’ Why Not a Caribou Herd?

By Dac Collins

An aerial view of a wakeboat towing a wakesurfer.
Wildlife Management

Kentucky Wildlife Officials Want to Restrict Wakeboats. State Lawmakers Won’t Let Them

By Dac Collins

Louisiana Wildlife Enforcement Agent prepares to patrol the Ouachita River
Wildlife Management

Former Head of Louisiana Wildlife Agency Pleads Guilty to ‘Conspiring to Defraud the United States’

By Dac Collins

An illustration of a game warden riding a horse and facing a poacher with a rifle
Wildlife Management

I Took Down Outlaws, Poachers, and Plenty of Politicians in My 22 Years as Chief Game Warden

By Elliott S. Barker

A big bull elk.
Wildlife Management

Idaho Wildlife Commissioner Charged with Poaching Elk, Trespassing, Says He’ll ‘Voluntarily Postpone’ Duties

By Kris Millgate

A color illustration of a game warden firing warning shots at a man stumbling in front of a car.
Wildlife Management

The Night a Wisconsin Game Warden Took One Last Call

By Dave Duffey

A buck in velvet eats mushrooms in the woods
Wildlife Management

Mushrooms Are a Deer’s Secret Favorite Food. Here’s How to Easily Grow a Mushroom Food Plot

By Natalie Krebs

Wild hogs from above
Wildlife Management

Georgia Goes All-Out on Wild Hog Control by Legalizing Drones, Relaxing License Rules

By Kubie Brown

a nutria swims in a swamp
Wildlife Management

National Park Service Announces New Hunting Opportunities to Control Invasive Species. Volunteers Could Save Taxpayers Millions

By Andrew McKean

A bull elk in the backcountry.
Wildlife Management

Roadless Areas Provide 10 Times Better Elk Hunting and Support the Best Trout Streams in the West, Study Shows

By Dac Collins

A bighorn sheep on a grassy knoll.
Wildlife Management

Oregon Has Found a New (and Clever) Way to Fund Wildlife Conservation

By Dac Collins

Whitetail deer stand in the railway.
Wildlife Management

‘Dead Deer All Over the Place.’ Corn Spill on Minnesota Railroad Lures 100-Plus Whitetails to Their Deaths

By Dac Collins

A diver spears an invasive lionfish beside an artificial reef in Florida.
Wildlife Management

Photos: These Lionfish Divers Are Defending Florida Reefs — by Spearing One Venomous Fish at a Time

Photographs by Rayna O'Nan, Story by Natalie Krebs

Many asian swamp eels crawl over each other
Wildlife Management

This Air-Breathing Swamp Eel Is Quietly Taking Over the Florida Everglades

By Dac Collins

donated venison in a metal bin
Wildlife Management

Deer Processor Caught Selling Donated Venison Meant for Local Food Pantries

By Dac Collins

The bones of a Canada lynx on a stand in a workshop.
Wildlife Management

Photos: Inside the Oklahoma Taxidermy Shop That’s Supplying Skulls to Museums, Hunters, and Harvard

Story by Steve Wagner, Photographs by Jeff Wilson

A snake hunter with a massive Burmese python.
Wildlife Management

What It’s Like to Get Dragged Through a Florida Swamp by a 200-Pound Python

By Dac Collins