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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

Wildlife Management

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.

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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.

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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.

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

A National Guard helicopter lands in Montana.

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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.

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

By Christine Peterson

Biologist fit a collar on a gray wolf

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

By Kris Millgate

A bear on a road.

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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.

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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