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Mutilated fish caught on Lake of the Ozarks.
Wildlife Management

‘I Couldn’t Believe My Eyes.’ Live Paddlefish Are Being Mutilated with Obscene Messages and Released Alive in Missouri

By Kubie Brown

Screenshots from a video showing a python regurgitating a bird.
Wildlife Management

This Footage of a Puking Snake Is a Gross Reminder of Why Python Control Is So Important

By Dac Collins

A composite photo of pen-raised deer and an Oklahoma lawmaker.
Wildlife Management

Oklahoma Is Now Releasing Pen-Raised Deer into the Wild as Part of a Vast CWD Experiment

By Dac Collins

An Idaho license plate.
Wildlife Management

Idaho Just Made It Much Harder to Get a Lifetime Hunting License After Nonresidents, Influencers Abuse It

By Natalie Krebs

A sketchy illustration of a snake catcher
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I Quit Fishing for the Addictive Thrill of Hunting Rattlesnakes — and Got Bit

By Dr. C. E. Kuschel

peta member protest animal-based ag in Oregon
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Podcast: The World of Anti-Hunting and Animal-Rights Activism Is Getting Weirder

By Alex Robinson

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