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A big bull elk.

Wildlife Management

Idaho Wildlife Commissioner Charged with Poaching Elk, Trespassing, Says He’ll ‘Voluntarily Postpone’ Duties

By Kris Millgate

A blue illustration of a man trying to stay afloat in the ocean as he calls for help.

A Miserable Fishing Trip Turned into a Miraculous Midnight Rescue I’ll Never Forget

By Clavis. E. Akridge

An English setter points a planted pigeon.

‘Planting Birds for Your Pointer, That’s Gone.’ A Vague Provision in the Farm Bill Would Make It Impossible to Train Your Hunting Dog

An ice fisherman with a 49-inch muskie caught through the ice in Vermont.

Pike and Muskie Fishing

This Angler’s First Muskie Nearly Spooled Him. It’s the Biggest Caught in Vermont in Decades

Cans of spam on the shelf

The Best Bait You Can Buy at the Dollar Store

By Raymundo Ruiz Jr.

A bunch of poisonous or toxic plants silhouetted on a sludge-green background.

Foraging & Gardening

These Are the 12 Most Dangerous Plants Hiding in Plain Sight. How Many Can You Identify?

By Craig Caudill

An aerial view of an ice-fishing derby in Saskatchewan.

Walleye Fishing

An Ice Fisherman Was Booted from a Canadian Walleye Derby Over Cheating Accusations. There Was $100,000 on the Line

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

Giant Hogweed in a river bed

Foraging & Gardening

‘My Face Started Peeling.’ This Weed Is 20 Feet Tall, Causes Chemical Burns, and Might Be in Your Local Woods

By Natalie Krebs

Group of nightcrawlers in soil.

How to Catch Nightcrawlers for DIY Live Bait

A composite photo of an angler with three trophy bass.

‘My Adrenaline Was Pumping.’ Bass Guide Makes Texas History with Two 13-Pounders in One Day (and Three This Month)

Dustin Jone DD Adams award call.

Podcast: How to Choose a Pot Call, According to a Champion Turkey Caller

By Scott Einsmann

turkey van tour

Video: I Turkey Hunt Out of a Van for 3 Months Every Spring. Welcome to the Turkey Van Tour

By Roy Holdford

A bass guide holds up a 13-pound largemouth.

Largemouth Bass

Texas Guide Catches His Second 13-Pound Bass in Two Weeks

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

A table with green felt with Bark River Knives laid out on top of it.

Michigan Knifemaker Closes Shop After Admitting to Using Chinese Steel and Labeling It USA-Made

An illustration of loggers throwing a rope to rescue swimmers.

We Risked Everything for the Best Fishing of Our Lives — and It Almost Cost Us

Wild hogs from above

Wildlife Management

Georgia Goes All-Out on Wild Hog Control by Legalizing Drones, Relaxing License Rules

A walleye fisherman holds up a fat early-spring walleye.

Walleye Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: Secrets for Catching Huge Early-Spring Walleyes in Any Scenario

A guide hauls decoys back to a trialer.

Waterfowl Hunting

One of Canada’s Best Duck-Hunting Provinces Is Now Restricting Nonresidents. Here’s Why

An illustration of a man-eating black bear facing off with a group of armed rescuers.

The Last Time I Saw My Friend Alive, He Told Me About the Black Bears Getting into His Garbage

An illustration of a man named muskie joe

Pike and Muskie Fishing

The Legend of Muskie Joe, the Man Who Searched His Entire Life for a 6-Foot Fish

An illustration of a man punching another man with a net of pickerel during a historic run.

The Day Millions of Pickerel Saved My Starving Town — and Nearly Ruined My Favorite Fishing Hole

An illustration of a whale swimming straight for a group of canoers

I Paddled 850 Miles to Hudson Bay in a Canoe, and Fished to Eat Along the Way

By David Jarden

a nutria swims in a swamp

Public Lands & Waters

National Park Service Announces New Hunting Opportunities to Control Invasive Species. Volunteers Could Save Taxpayers Millions

By Andrew McKean

An angler holds a fat bunker.

The Most Important Baitfish in the Ocean Will Fast-Track You to the Fish of a Lifetime

A green yellow illustration of a man descending a cliff.

Wilderness Survival

It Took Rescuers Days to Find Us in a Remote Canyon. It Took Even Longer to Figure Out How to Get Us Out

By Keith E. Oveson

A hunter with a mule deer buck tagged in Montana.

Mule Deer Hunting

It Was Supposed to Be the Toughest Deer Season in Years. We Hunted Anyway

By Andrew McKean

Ruger says Beretta Holding is trying to seize control of its company.

Beretta Quietly Became the Largest Shareholder of Ruger. Now the American Gunmaker Is Warning of a Takeover

By Natalie Krebs

A bull elk in the backcountry.

Policy & Legislation

Roadless Areas Provide 10 Times Better Elk Hunting and Support the Best Trout Streams in the West, Study Shows

A teen angler with a huge largemouth bass.

Largemouth Bass

‘I Thought It Was All Over.’ Teen Wins Bass Tourney with a 10-Pound Largemouth He Hooked Twice

A portrait of a smiling woman with a big leather hat beside a cactus against a blue sky

This Survival Instructor Wants You to Know the Wilderness Isn’t Out to Get You

By Andrew McKean

An Idaho angler with a state-record cutthroat trout.

Idaho’s Deepest Lake Kicks Out Another State-Record Trout

Dan chops firewood in the BWCA.

Podcast: We Lived in the Boundary Waters for an Entire Year

A duck hunter smiles in the marsh.

Hunter Recruitment

‘I Was Hooked.’ This Volunteer-Led Program Has Introduced 100,000 New Duck Hunters Across North America

By Kris Millgate

A fishing guide holds up a stud rainbow in front of a client.

We Got in a Full-Blown Feud with a Rival Fishing Lodge. It Ended with a State Trooper Sting

A bighorn sheep on a grassy knoll.

Wildlife Management

Oregon Has Found a New (and Clever) Way to Fund Wildlife Conservation

Two Irish hunters crawl after curlew in an illustration.

Upland Bird Hunting

I Thought Snipe Hunting Was a Joke. Then I Moved to Ireland

Joe Cermele holds up a nice trout on a cold day between winter and spring.

Quick Strike Podcast: The Secret to Fishing the Weirdest, Trickiest Time of the Year

A bald cypress grows out of the swamp in the Okefenokee.

Climate & Environment

This Unique Blackwater Swamp Could’ve Been a Mine. Now It’s Becoming a Wildlife Management Area

Five rifle cartridges on a piece of wood with a blue background.

Why Some Rifle Cartridges Endure, and Others (Even Favorites) Die Out

By Jack O'Connor, with an introduction by Tyler Freel

Whitewater rapids on a little known river in Alaska.

In Alaska, Even a Seemingly Unremarkable River Can Offer the Adventure of a Lifetime

By Christine Peterson

Thick trees in the fog

Wilderness Survival

A Lost Kid Wandered into My Camp. It’s a Miracle He Found It

By Nick Fasciano

An angler holds a purple snakehead in spawning colors.

These Anglers Are Breaking Records (Almost) No One Cares About

By Michael Carr

Big Game Hunting

The Red Stag Roar in New Zealand Is the Craziest Rut Hunt on the Planet

By Scott Haugen

A man holds up a huge brown trout.

These 6 Full-Time Fish Bums Are Living the Dream — But Not Without Sacrifices

An angler and a fisheries biologist with a massive muskie.

Pike and Muskie Fishing

Pending State-Record Muskie Rejected Over a Border Dispute

Whitetail deer stand in the railway.

Wildlife Management

‘Dead Deer All Over the Place.’ Corn Spill on Minnesota Railroad Lures 100-Plus Whitetails to Their Deaths

An illustration of a leopard attacking a man while his hat flies off his head.

Big Game Hunting

Roosevelt on Safari: A Leopard Attack, an Ambush, and a Lifelong Quest Fulfilled

By Kermit Roosevelt

a world-record carp on a mat

This Fisherman Caught a New World-Record Carp in His Neighborhood Pond

A diver spears an invasive lionfish beside an artificial reef in Florida.

Wildlife Management

Photos: These Lionfish Divers Are Defending Florida Reefs — by Spearing One Venomous Fish at a Time

Photographs by Rayna O'Nan, Story by Natalie Krebs

Many asian swamp eels crawl over each other

Climate & Environment

This Air-Breathing Swamp Eel Is Quietly Taking Over the Florida Everglades

A bass angler holds up a huge largemouth at a marina.

Smallmouth Bass

Young Guide Catches a Giant Texas Bass ‘With His Name on It’

An illustration of two hunters waving at a plane.

Wilderness Survival

I Was Lost for 10 Terrible Days in the Ontario Wilderness

By Elwyn "Bud" Myers

A barred owl flying in the night.

How to Hoot Like an Owl Using Your Natural Voice

By Natalie Krebs

donated venison in a metal bin

Wildlife Management

Deer Processor Caught Selling Donated Venison Meant for Local Food Pantries

The bones of a Canada lynx on a stand in a workshop.

Wildlife Management

Photos: Inside the Oklahoma Taxidermy Shop That’s Supplying Skulls to Museums, Hunters, and Harvard

Story by Steve Wagner, Photographs by Jeff Wilson

A color illustration of a bunch of people fishing for a giant tuna fish off the coast of montauk

A Life-Changing Discovery, an Unlucky Fisherman, and the Greatest Tuna Fight of All Time

By Frank T. Moss

A bass fisherman holds up a 13-pound largemouth.

Largemouth Bass

Guide Catches a 13-Pound Bass While His Client Was Taking a Break

A fly angler with a Jack Crevalle caught ona. fly.

Quick Strike Podcast: Why More Anglers Are Suddenly Obsessed with This Hard-Fighting Fish

Video: Never Fillet Bluegills Again, Use This Method Instead

By Alex Robinson

A Georgia angler with a big gar.

Guide Catches State-Record Gar While Fishing Solo on His Home Lake

Angler Arrested at Fishing Tournament for Allegedly Stuffing Bass with Weights

American folk hero Buffalo Bill Cody poses with taxidermy deer, antlers, and revolvers against a backdrop, 1871. Note: Image has been digitally colorized using a modern process.

I Was the Last Person to Interview Buffalo Bill Cody Before He Died. Here’s What He Said

By Chauncey Thomas