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An illustration of a buffalo hunter resting his rifle on shooting sticks

Big Game Hunting

Jack O’Connor’s Ode to the Humble Rifle Rest

By Jack O'Connor

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 turkey hunter and his daughter with an all-white gobbler.

Mississippi Turkey Hunter Tags Rare, Snow-White Gobbler on Opening Day

By Alice Jones Webb

Football star Travis Hunter holds up a bass.

This Heisman Trophy Winner Would Rather Be Bass Fishing

A composite illustration of a caribou hunter

Big Game Hunting

I Just Wanted to Go Caribou Hunting. I Didn’t Expect to Tag the World-Record

Whitetail Deer Hunting

10 Underrated Spots to Find Shed Antlers

By Josh Honeycutt

A wild turkey with a drooping snood.

Why Do Turkeys Have Snoods?

By Alice Jones Webb

Big Game Hunting

A $3,710 Elk Tag? Utah Set to Double Hunting Fees for Nonresidents

By Natalie Krebs

Horace Hinkley stands beside his heavy maine buck

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Controversy of the Hinkley Buck, the Heaviest Deer Ever Killed in Maine

By Horace R. Hinkley

A tract of public land in the Pahrump Valley in Nevada.

Public Lands & Waters

Plan to Sell Off ‘Underutilized’ Federal Land for Affordable Housing Is Ineffective and Inefficient, Experts Say

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

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

By Natalie Krebs

kayak fisherman tragically dies

Carolina Angler Finds Swamped Fishing Kayak with a Life Jacket Still Strapped to It

By Derek Horner

Anglers with a giant great white shark caught from the beach.

‘I’m Still on Cloud Nine.’ Watch These Surf Anglers Release a Big Great White Shark

By Alice Jones Webb

Corner crossing ruled legal in Wyoming.

Public Lands & Waters

Appeals Court Rules That Corner Crossing Is Legal in at Least Six States

By Andrew McKean

An illustration of a turkey hunter calling turkeys

I Hunted a Gobbler for So Long, I Actually Started to Like Him

A coyote and a badger hunt together

Predator Hunting

Fascinating Trail Cam Videos Show Coyotes and Badgers Hunting Prairie Dogs Together

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

An illustration of a jake turkey walking in some brush

My Hunting Buddy Swore Foxes Could Call in Turkeys

By Peter Josserand

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

Man holds up a record lake trout in Minnesota

‘All I Do Is Fish Jigs for Lakers.’ Minnesota Man Catches the Pending State Record Lake Trout

Climber wearing a backpack stands in front of a mountain.

How to Climb a Mountain: Expert Tips for Bagging Peaks

By Sean McNally

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.

Policy & Legislation

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

By Alice Jones Webb

Everything That’s Wrong With the “Jaws” Fight Scene

A photo collage of the new pending world-record bull

The Real Story Behind the Casey Brooks Bull, the Pending World Record Elk

By Natalie Krebs, Dac Collins

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

Striped Bass Fishing

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

Researchers unearth a mammoth tusk in West Texas.

Climate & Environment

‘I Couldn’t Believe It.’ Deer Hunter Finds Prehistoric Mammoth Tusk on West Texas Ranch

national wildlife refuge USFWS employee

Policy & Legislation

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

By Andrew McKean

Inserting a magazine into a handgun

Semi-Auto Shotguns

Colorado Gun Owners Will Likely Need a Permit to Purchase Most Semi-Autos

By Alice Jones Webb

A kayak angler's perspective of rescuing dogs from an icy river.

Wilderness Survival

Watch a Kayak Fisherman Save Two Dogs from Drowning in an Icy River

Jim Carmichel with 45/70

Classic Carmichel: The Rebirth of the .45/70

By Jim Carmichel

A chain pickerel with a lure in its mouth.

Quick Strike Podcast: Early Spring Tricks for Giant Chain Pickerel

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.

Policy & Legislation

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

An illustration of setter Jim the Wonder Dog from an issue of Outdoor Life.

Jim the Wonder Dog, an Otherwise Ordinary Setter, Was the Smartest Dog Who Ever Lived

By Larry Mueller

A grizzly bear walking through the woods in the snow.

Climate & Environment

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

By Natalie Krebs

A trout jumping

There’s No Place I’d Rather Be Than Rural Ireland, Especially When the Trout Are Rising

A kayak angler casts out into a lake.

‘No One’s Immune.’ Tariffs Set to Wallop the U.S. Fishing Gear Industry

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 ice fisherman holds up a $100,000 check.

Ice Fisherman Catches $100K Pike Just Before the Buzzer in Local Derby

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

Cartridges 225 winchester

Why Some Rifle Cartridges Fail

By Jim Carmichel

Morel mushrooms growing in moss

Foraging & Gardening

How to Find More Morel Mushrooms This Spring

By Gary Garth, Matthew Every

An illustration of a flock of turkeys

A White-Bearded Gobbler Ruined My Turkey Hunting Streak and Gave Me a Case of the Yips

By Larry Dablemont

A BLM firefighter works a line.

Policy & Legislation

Federal Judge Rules Firing Public-Land Workers Was Illegal, Agrees It ‘Will Inflict Immediate, Foreseeable Harm’ to Habitat and Wildlife

A Massachusetts teenager holds up a state-record bass.

‘That Ain’t No Crappie.’ Watch This 13-Year-Old Catch a State-Record Largemouth Bass Through the Ice

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 polar bear stalks a man

I Canoed the Northwest Passage Solo. The Arctic Nearly Killed Me — Twice

By Tony Dauksza

A whitetail doe stands in the shadows.

Wildlife Management

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

A covey of quail rises

Learning How to Hunt Quail, One Face Plant at a Time

By Charles Elliott

A tournament angler holds up a heavyweight largemouth bass.

Largemouth Bass

‘I Knew Right Away It Was a Big, Big Fish.’ Tourney Angler’s Huge Largemouth Ties League Record for Heaviest Bass Ever Weighed

Maggie the magnificent

Maggie Was a Goofy, Distractible Mutt, and the Best Lion Dog I Ever Hunted Behind

By Frank C. Hibben

The author releases a smallmouth bass caught on a neko rig.

Largemouth Bass

Neko Rig: A Complete Guide on Rigging, Setups, and How to Fish It

By Derek Horner

A commercial fishing boat at sea.

Saltwater Fishing

Man Pretending to Be Captain Arrested After Stealing $8-Million Fishing Boat with the Crew Still Aboard

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

A public land sign with a pumpjack in the background.

Public Lands & Waters

How Seriously Should We Take the Sale of Federal Lands? Very Seriously, Experts Say

By Andrew McKean

sea duck hunters

Podcast: I Nearly Died on a Duck Hunt

By Alex Robinson

An angler holds up a white crappie caught in Utah.

Crappie Fishing

Utah Angler Who Broke State Crappie Record Says He’s Already Caught an Even Bigger One

Australian angler Paul Barning, who was lost at sea, holds up a flag.

Tournament Angler Pulled Overboard by Giant Shark Remains Lost at Sea