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A large herd of elk graze in a farmer's field in Wyoming.

Wildlife Management

Wyoming Ranchers Are Getting Paid to Let Elk Graze Their Land

By Alice Jones Webb

Coolers, buckets, and bags full of dead fish seized from poachers.

Wildlife Management

Oregon’s 7-Hour Fishing Season Ends with 2,500 Pounds of Illegally-Caught Smelt Seized by Police

A USFWS employee runs an airboat across Tule Lake.

Wildlife Management

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Rehire Fired Employees with Backpay

A grey wolf moves across a winter landscape.

Wildlife Management

Wolves Ranged into 14 Colorado Counties Even as Petition to Halt Reintroduction Advances

A velvet mule deer rack and other antlers seized by Utah wildlife officials.

Wildlife Management

Poached Bucks Up for Auction in Utah, Along with Hundreds More Skulls and Hides

A mountain lion stands on a pine tree branch.

Wildlife Management

As Cougar Sightings Continue in Oklahoma, Lawmakers Are Moving to Set a Hunting Season

By Alice Jones Webb

A still image showing a drone operator using a drone to help rescue a deer.

Wildlife Management

Watch Police Use a Drone to Rescue a Doe and Two Fawns from an Icy Lake

A grizzly in Wyoming.

Wildlife Management

This Former Game Warden Could Be the New USFWS Director. Here’s His Record on CWD, Wolves, and Grizzlies

By Andrew McKean

A herd of caribou trotting across the tundra.

Wildlife Management

Alaska Officials Push to Continue Culling Grizzly Bears to Save Caribou

By Alice Jones Webb

A biologist kneels beside a gray wolf.

Wildlife Management

One of Colorado’s Released Wolves Was Killed by Federal Officials in Wyoming

By Natalie Krebs

A drake pintail takes off from a NWR in Alaska

Wildlife Management

Several Duck Species Included in ‘Tipping Point List’ as New Report Sounds Alarm Over U.S. Bird Declines

By Alice Jones Webb

Baby wombat hate catches innocent social media users

Wildlife Management

A Wildlife Photographer Was Wrongly Tagged in the Viral Baby Wombat Post. Then Came the Death Threats

By Natalie Krebs

A Texas lawmaker poses with a whitetail deer.

Wildlife Management

Texas Lawmaker Who Breeds Deer Wants to Abolish the State Wildlife Agency That Regulates Deer Breeders

Michael Beaulieu with a caribou

Wildlife Management

Hunting Influencer Sues B.C. Game Warden for $2.4M Over ‘Obsession’ and Alleged Harassment

By Natalie Krebs

A young cougar kitten hides near a truck tire in the snow.

Wildlife Management

Cougar Kittens Confirmed in Michigan for the First Time in a Century

By Alice Jones Webb

A smallmouth bass with a sucker lodged in its throat.

Wildlife Management

A New Plan to Flush Smallies Out of the Grand Canyon Seems to Be Working. Some Western Lawmakers Want to Squash It

A barred owl flies through the trees.

Wildlife Management

Lawmakers Ask Trump to Stop the $1.3 Billion Plan to Shoot 450,000 Non-Native Barred Owls

By Alice Jones Webb

A charter boat captain tosses a striped bass into a dock container.

Wildlife Management

Supreme Court Upholds Tighter Fishing Regs for Striped Bass, Rejecting Pleas from Charter Captains

By Alice Jones Webb

Wildlife Management

‘You Shot Me in the Head and I’m Done.’ Wisconsin Man Sentenced to 4.5 Years After Assaulting Game Warden

national wildlife refuge USFWS employee

Wildlife Management

As Trump Attempts to Reform Federal Government, Hunters and Anglers Face ‘Unintended Consequences’

By Andrew McKean

A chef poses with a giant nutria in front of a large barbecue grill.

Wildlife Management

Feds Want You to Eat More BBQ Swamp Rat to Save Your Local Marsh

By Alice Jones Webb

A hunter glasses for game from atop a snowy ridge.

Wildlife Management

Utah Wants to Prevent Anti-Hunter Takeover by Requiring All Wildlife Board Members to Have a Hunting License

A grizzly bear walking through the woods in the snow.

Wildlife Management

The Endangered Species Act Has Been ‘Warped by Decades of Radical Environmental Litigation,’ Says Lawmaker Who Wants to Overhaul It

By Natalie Krebs

A rancher walks across a snowy prairie past a carcass of a dead cow killed by a wolf.

Wildlife Management

Colorado Approves Ranchers’ $343K Wolf Compensation Claims, Nearly Draining the State’s Budget for It

By Alice Jones Webb

An old cowboy ropes a California grizzly bear

Wildlife Management

When Grizzlies Ruled California

By George Laycock

An oregon man was sentenced for poaching elk and mule deer

Wildlife Management

Serial Poacher Somehow Gets a Lifetime Hunting Ban for the Third Time

By Natalie Krebs

Florida black bear hunt proposed

Wildlife Management

Florida Is Finally Considering a Black Bear Season Again

By Natalie Krebs

A pod of hippos in a river in Colombia.

Wildlife Management

Hundreds of ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Are Terrorizing Colombia. This Biologist Has Agreed to Help Track Them Down

A whitetail doe stands in the shadows.

Wildlife Management

Texas Wardens Uncover Black-Market Whitetail Breeding Ring that Smuggled ‘Ghost Deer’

Four hog trappers with a pile of 41 wild pigs.

Wildlife Management

Hog Trappers Removed 41 Destructive Feral Pigs in One Go. Here’s How They Did It

Poll: 65 Percent of Westerners Oppose Giving States Control of Federal Land

Wildlife Management

Poll: 65 Percent of Westerners Oppose Giving States Control of Federal Land

By Christine Peterson

what do grizzly bears eat?

Wildlife Management

What Do Grizzly Bears Eat? These 55+ Favorite Foods

mature whitetail buck in grass

Wildlife Management

How Long Do Deer Live?

A grizzly bear runs fast through water toward the camera.

Wildlife Management

How Fast Can a Bear Run? Faster Than You

florida invasive species

Wildlife Management

Invasive Species in Florida: The 10 Worst Invaders

By Alan Clemons

Wildlife Management

Beginner’s Guide to Timber Stand Improvement: How to Manage Your Woods for Deer and Other Wildlife

By Josh Honeycutt

wolf eats whitetail deer

Wildlife Management

What Do Wolves Eat?

A whitetail deer feed in a clover food plot.

Wildlife Management

What Do Deer Eat? Almost Anything, But These 80+ Foods Are Their Favorites

An illustration of a bedded pronghorn with president teddy Roosevelt lying in the brush behind it

Wildlife Management

President Teddy Roosevelt Conserved Millions of Acres of Federal Lands. It Was His Greatest Legacy

By Jim McCafferty

Moose in Rocky Mountain National Park

Wildlife Management

Rocky Mountain National Park Has Too Many Moose

By Kris Millgate

A mountain lion feeding on a dead deer.

Wildlife Management

Wyoming Lawmakers Tried to Declare Open Season on Mountain Lions. Local Houndsmen Shut It Down

By Christine Peterson

A porta-potty blind and a haybale blind.

Wildlife Management

Texas Game Wardens Are Too Smart for Porta-Potty Poachers and Hay-Bale Blinds

By Phil Bourjaily

A Florida panther is collared and looked over by wildlife biologists.

Wildlife Management

This Florida Panther Is the Fattest Cat Ever Captured in the State

A wolf in the snow in Wyoming

Wildlife Management

A Bill That Would’ve Outlawed Running Over Wolves, Coyotes with Snowmachines Failed in Wyoming

By Christine Peterson

A Florida poacher busted for killing a protected tundra swan.

Wildlife Management

Florida Man Who Shot a Tundra Swan in Front of Birdwatchers Gets Lifetime Hunting Ban

Great Lakes wolves

Wildlife Management

Wisconsin, Colorado Lawmakers Move to Delist Gray Wolves Across the Lower 48

By Natalie Krebs

A screenshot of Don Jr. or Donald Trump Jr. beside a ruddy shelduck.

Wildlife Management

An Anti-Hunting Politician Accused Donald Trump Jr. of Shooting a Protected Duck in Italy. Here’s the Backstory

By Natalie Krebs

A truck bed with 54 dead ducks in it.

Wildlife Management

Poachers Caught with 3X Legal Limit Said ‘This Was More Ducks Than They’d Seen All Season’

By Kris Millgate

Caribou with antlers feeding on snow-covered tundra with oilfield pipeline in background

Wildlife Management

Trump Orders Resource Development on Alaska Public Lands ‘to the Fullest Extent Possible,’ But May Also Restore Hunting Opportunities

By Natalie Krebs

A herd of mule deer, likely about to bolt.

Wildlife Management

Trump’s Order to Pause Federal Grants Causes Chaos in the Conservation World

By Andrew McKean, Natalie Krebs

Anti-poaching rangers perform demonstration in Kruger Park.

Wildlife Management

Podcast: How to Wage War on Poaching, According to a Former South African General

A group of bull elk stand in the snow.

Wildlife Management

Conservation Groups, Hunters Fight Off Bill That Would Have Let Wyoming Landowners Sell Their Big-Game Tags for a Profit

By Kris Millgate

A pile of dead vultures found in the Gulf.

Wildlife Management

Watch: Fishing Guide Who Rescued Drowning Vultures in the Gulf Says They Must Have Fallen from the Sky

A mule deer buck in Wyoming.

Wildlife Management

Hunting Big Bucks Year After Year Helps Curb Chronic Wasting Disease, Study Shows

By Natalie Krebs

A road with public land BLM sign

Wildlife Management

Here’s What Hunting and Conservation Groups Are Asking of the Trump Administration

By Andrew McKean

A whitetail buck in the South.

Wildlife Management

Georgia Confirms Its First Case of Chronic Wasting Disease

A large herd of elk congregate at a feedground on a snowy landscape.

Wildlife Management

CWD Discovered at Wyoming Elk Feedground, Raising More Concerns Over the State’s Supplemental Feeding Program

By Alice Jones Webb

A herd of Roosevelt elk in Washington.

Wildlife Management

With Increasing Influence from Anti-Hunters, Washington’s Wildlife Commission Is Now ‘Dysfunctional,’ According to a University Report

By Andrew McKean

A field ranger in South Africa holds a radio.

Wildlife Management

Hunting for Poachers Amid South Africa’s Bloody Wildlife War

Sandhill cranes coming in for a landing

Wildlife Management

In Wisconsin, Home of the Sandhill Crane Recovery, Legislators Are Now Considering a Hunt

By Andrew McKean

A treed mountain lion

Wildlife Management

Anti-Hunters Seek to Ban All Hunting with Hounds in Arizona

By Natalie Krebs

A steelhead in California.

Wildlife Management

L.A. Wildfires Torched One of SoCal’s Last Remaining Steelhead Streams

A bull elk bugles on the side of a hill behind two cows.

Wildlife Management

Colorado Is Switching Its Big-Game Draw. Here’s Why Hunters with Preference Points Are Short-Changed

By Natalie Krebs

Dead deer hit by a car lying by the road with motion blurred vehicle, U.S. Highway 14, Wyoming, USA.

Wildlife Management

The Ultimate Guide to Eating and Donating Roadkill

By Christine Peterson