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Two gray wolves

Wildlife Management

Utah Confirms It Killed 3 Gray Wolves for the First Time in 16 Years

By Christine Peterson

6.8 western cartridge

Wildlife Management

Wisconsin Sharpshooter Is Fined $10,000 After Deer Culling Violations

An illustrated collage of scenes from deer hunting.

Wildlife Management

I Watched the Glory Days of Mule Deer Hunting Rise, Then Slip Away. I’m Still Hopeful for What Comes Next

A screenshot from body cam footage of a hunter being arrested in South Carolina.

Wildlife Management

Video: A Hunter Was Arrested for Glassing a Dummy Buck During a Poaching Sting. Now He’s Suing the DNR for Abuse of Power

Colorado officials look over a wolf in a helicopter.

Wildlife Management

Colorado to Pause Wolf Reintroductions as Feds Apply Pressure and States Balk at Providing Them

By Kris Millgate

A fish cleaning table with halibut and pacific cod hanging.

Wildlife Management

Former Alaskan Guide and Convicted Poacher Found Guilty of Commercial Fishing Fraud

Mallards in flooded corn.

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Has Hot Cropping Ruined Duck Hunting? Here’s What the Data and Biologists Say About How Flooded Corn Affects Waterfowl Migration

By Natalie Krebs

A photo of three wolves in Wyoming

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Podcast: USFWS Director Brian Nesvik on the Future of Refuges and Wildlife Conservation

By Andrew McKean

A mountain lion on red sandstone in the Southwest.

Wildlife Management

Utah Is Culling Cougars to See If It Helps Deer. Houndsmen Aren’t Happy About It

By Kris Millgate

A view of the Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in central Oregon.

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Interior Department Plans to Open All Its Public Land to Hunting and Fishing — Unless Specifically Closed by Site Managers

By Andrew McKean

A trapper with a beaver.

Wildlife Management

Why America Needs Trapping More Than Ever

A bull moose wades in an Idaho stream.

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Idaho Man Gets Lifetime Hunting Ban for Roping a Bull Moose

A herd of bison graze on Antelope Island, Utah.

Wildlife Management

Colorado Just Opened the Door to Its First Wild Bison Hunt in More Than a Century

A National Guard helicopter lands in Montana.

Wildlife Management

National Guardsman Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Using a Military Chopper to Grab Elk Sheds from Montana Ranch

Casual hunters don't have to spend every waking moment hunting to be valued by the community.

Wildlife Management

Quit Expecting Every Hunter to Be So Hardcore. We Need Casual Hunters, Too

By Christine Peterson

Biologist fit a collar on a gray wolf

Wildlife Management

USFWS Will Terminate Colorado’s Wolf Program Unless the State Complies with This Ultimatum

By Natalie Krebs

Gray wolves in the midwest would be delisted by this new bill.

Wildlife Management

The House Just Voted to Delist Gray Wolves. Now the Bill Heads to the Senate

By Kris Millgate

The Greenland wildlife crossing in Colorado.

Wildlife Management

The Largest Wildlife Crossing in North America Just Opened to Critters in Colorado

Two mallard drakes in the snow.

Wildlife Management

Game-Farm Mallard Genetics Are a Bigger Problem Than Waterfowlers Think — Only 2% of Greenheads in the Atlantic Flyway are Fully Wild

A whitetail buck stands on a hillside in Montana.

Wildlife Management

Montana to Slash Nonresident Deer Tags Amid EHD Declines and Mounting Pressure from Out-of-Staters

By Dac Collins, Andrew McKean

A protester speaks out against bear hunting during a rally.

Wildlife Management

This Group Is Paying Hunters $2,000 Not to Use Their Tags, in a Final Effort to Thwart Florida’s Bear Hunt

A bull elk in the brush.

Wildlife Management

Idaho Is Eliminating OTC Deer and Elk Tags for Nonresidents and Moving to a Draw System

By Kris Millgate

A bear on a road.

Wildlife Management

After a Single Bear Attacked a Group of Schoolchildren on a Hike, B.C. Urged to Reopen Grizzly Hunts

By Kris Millgate

A bald eagle on a post.

Wildlife Management

Feds Announce Plan to Overhaul the Endangered Species Act. It Throws Out Science and Adds (More) Red Tape

By Christine Peterson

A Utah biologist ropes a bighorn.

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Watch: Utah Biologist Ropes 3 Bighorns Trapped in a Red Rock Formation

By Kris Millgate

A public health sign advising fishermen not to consume the fish in a contaminated pond.

Wildlife Management

The EPA Is Gutting the Clean Water Act, Which Has Protected Fish and Game for 53 Years

By Christine Peterson

A haul of pollock aboard a factory trawler.

Wildlife Management

This Mind-Boggling Commercial Fishing Practice Is Robbing Alaska’s Anglers

A No Trespassing sign posted in Utah.

Wildlife Management

A Mayor in Utah Who Pled Guilty to Hunting Violations Says He ‘Did the Right Thing’ After Screwing Up

Ryan Callaghan behind a spotting scope

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Outdoor Life Podcast: Is Ryan Callaghan the Optimist Our Public Lands Need?

By Natalie Krebs

A Tennessee game warden with trophy bucks confiscated from a poacher.

Wildlife Management

‘Penitentiary Poacher’ Busted for Killing Trophy Bucks at a Tennessee Prison

A gray wolf stands in a river in Minnesota.

Wildlife Management

Feds Say They Won’t Craft a Nationwide Wolf Recovery Plan, Opening the Door to Delisting

By Christine Peterson

bighorn sheep on highway

Wildlife Management

The Unexpected Bright Side of Roadkill (and What It Means for Big Game)

By Andrew McKean

Ryan Callaghan has been named the new president and CEO of BHA.

Wildlife Management

Ryan ‘Cal’ Callaghan Named the New CEO of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

By Natalie Krebs, Alex Robinson

A photo of a big brown trout being released.

Wildlife Management

It’s Time to Rethink Catch-and-Release Trout Fishing — or Get Much Better at It

By Christine Peterson

A black and white photo of a crossbow set as a trip wire.

Wildlife Management

Game Warden Tales: I Hunted Down a Trip-Wire Crossbow Poacher

Colorado officials stand over a wolf crate in the dark.

Wildlife Management

US Fish and Wildlife Director Calls Out Colorado Wolf Program. Could the Next Release Be Stopped?

ANWR coastal plain

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Trump Administration Opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Drilling

By Natalie Krebs

Federal hatchery workers load fish into a truck.

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2,000 Federal Public-Land Employees Could Lose Jobs Amid Shutdown

By Christine Peterson

barren ground caribou

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Barren Ground Caribou Hunts Are Disappearing — or Getting Outrageously Expensive

Wildlife Management

Congress Throws 166 Million Acres of BLM into Limbo by Upending Decades of Local Compromise

By Christine Peterson

Caribou on tundra with a map of the ambler road behind them.

Wildlife Management

The Ambler Road Project Would Jeopardize One of the Last Great Wilderness Hunts in America

By Natalie Krebs

A FWC staffer holds up a Burmese python cauhgt in Florida.

Wildlife Management

Can You Make a Living Hunting Pythons? We Asked Florida’s Invasive Snake Contractors

By Christine Peterson

A black bear running across a road.

Wildlife Management

Former Grizzly Manager Says This Tech Is the Answer for Hazing Bears, Even on College Campuses

Bear 747 in Brooks falls.

Wildlife Management

9 Photos of Alaska’s Enormous ‘Fat Bear Week’ Champs

By Natalie Krebs

Two bucks eat in a suburban yard.

Wildlife Management

Researchers Are Feeding Treats to Suburban Whitetails. Here’s Why

hunting southeast alaska

Wildlife Management

Why the Roadless Rule Is Important for Hunters and Anglers

Three mule deer dangle from a helicopter in orange bags.

Wildlife Management

13 Weird and Wonderful Wildlife Photos from a Day in the Life of a Conservation Biologist

By Natalie Krebs

West Virginia poaching bust.

Wildlife Management

Wildlife Poaching Is Costing Americans an Outrageous Amount of Money

By Andrew McKean

Two hunting influencers on screen during a filmed hunt in Canada.

Wildlife Management

After Influencer Ryan Lampers Was Charged with a Slew of Wildlife Violations, Gritty Bowman Speaks Out

A photo collage of a drone operating deer tracker amid an EHD outbreak.

Wildlife Management

‘Death Is in the Air.’ This Drone Pilot and Deer Tracker Is Uncovering Mass Whitetail Die Offs

By Alex Robinson

A drake greenhead flying against a blue sky

Wildlife Management

Wisconsin DNR Warns Hunters Not to Eat Mallards Shot in Green Bay. But What Happens When Contaminated Ducks Migrate?

By Alex Robinson

Pintails flying in a courtship dance.

Wildlife Management

Pintail Numbers Increase, Mallards Are Stable, and Other Takeaways from This Year’s Duck Survey

By Jonathan Olivier

Two hunters with a bull moose taken in Alaska.

Wildlife Management

Alaskan Guide Sued for Ripping Off 32 Moose Hunters Has Already Booked Trips for 2025

A big buck stands on the edge of the woods in Michigan.

Wildlife Management

Northern Michigan Lawmakers Want to Secede from the State Game Commission and Form Their Own

The Bloodvein First Nation stands next to a no-trespassing sign aimed at non-Indigenous hunters.

Wildlife Management

This First Nation Just Barred Non-Native Hunters from Its Territory for ‘Overhunting’

A problem bear with an ear tag peeks over a fence.

Wildlife Management

Officials Tried to Haze a Bear That Nearly Burned a House Down. Instead, They Got Mobbed by Activists

Rhino farmer John Hume sits in front of a painting in his office.

Wildlife Management

The World’s Biggest (and Richest) Rhino Savior Was Just Arrested for Trafficking Their Horns

A land for sale sign in the Western U.S.

Wildlife Management

A Sneaky Way Lawmakers Can Sell Your Public Land, and 3 Other Things Insiders Won’t Say on the Record

By Christine Peterson

An antique telephone that was being used as an illegal fishing device.

Wildlife Management

Two Poachers Were Busted Using This Old-School Outlaw Technique to Shock Catfish

A doe stands next to its fawn in the forest.

Wildlife Management

Researchers Just Revealed a Disturbing Way Deer Are Getting Chronic Wasting Disease

Three hunters on horseback in Argentina.

Wildlife Management

Argentina’s Biggest Poaching Bust Involved ‘Weapons of War,’ a Live Puma Cub, and an Outfitter Who Tried Fleeing to Brazil

A screenshot of a strategic marketing plan about Mexican wolves.

Wildlife Management

New Mexico Governor Fires Wildlife Commissioner After Leaked Emails Between Her and Anti-Wolfers

A professional python removal contractor holds up a bunch of snakes.

Wildlife Management

This Wildlife YouTuber Just Became the First Female to Win Florida’s Python Challenge

By Alex Robinson

duck poaching bust

Wildlife Management

The Ducklegger War: How an Undercover Agent Busted a Massive Ring of Market Hunters and Waterfowl Bootleggers