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While COVID-19 was confirmed in white-tailed deer in parts of the U.S. last year, the virus was recently confirmed in Utah mule deer for the first time after the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources submitted samples taken from deer during winter health assessments. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has been collaborating…
We all saw the evidence of this in the fields and woods; here are the numbers! It started almost two years ago, and we’re still learning about how COVID-19 changed the way Americans participate in the sport of hunting. Today we have new data courtesy of a company called onX Hunt, in partnership with Southwick…
If COVID-19 taught us anything, it’s the fragility of the supply chain. If you had told me in January 2020 that staples like toilet paper and fresh meat were about to become difficult and expensive to get, I’d still be laughing. Except for the part where staples like toilet paper and fresh meat really did…
There were 767 boating deaths in 2020. Almost all of them could have been avoided. Today, we have a guest column courtesy of Fishing Wire editor Frank Sergeant with some simple tips that just might save your life. ______________________________________________________ Designated national weeks are generally a bore that fall into the Internet noise category for most…
Over the last few months, a virus called HPAI has been killing wild birds. It is now killing mammals. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently confirmed that three red fox kits died from highly pathogenic avian influenza – the state’s first such confirmation of the HPAI virus in wild mammals. The fox kits, collected…
You know Florida Man, right? (He’s best friends with Some Dude.) Ah, the Florida Man! He needs you to hold his beer while he does something cool, he gets arrested while bare-chested, and they wrote a new law just for him. Truth is that “Florida Man” sometimes has good ideas, too, and the Florida Men…
COVID-19 sent millions of new hunters into the woods, and conservation benefited. Deer hunters in the United States harvested an estimated 6.3 million white-tailed deer in the 2020-21 hunting season, the most since 2001, according to the National Deer Association’s latest Deer Report released this week. Harvests of both antlered bucks and antlerless deer were…
Yes, yes, they are very cute … until they’ve eaten every scrap of green in our garden, that is. If you’ve joined the great COVID-19 exodus from the cities, chances are you’ve looked around at your acreage and thought that it would be nice to have a garden. Whether you’re trying to get a homestead…
The COVID-19 pandemic drove America back to its outdoor roots. Let’s stay here. You’re probably familiar with the Bassmaster brand and its parent company, B.A.S.S. You’re probably also familiar with a little thing that happened last year called the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of Americans used the lockdowns as a time to get connected with Nature…and…
Reeds Family Outdoor Outfitters has cracked the code for online “gun shows”! Reeds Family Outdoor Outfitters has been putting on their famous gun fair for years, but the COVID-19 lockdowns have made it…better? Yes, actually, the Reeds Virtual Gun Fair, which is going on right now and continuing through May 9, is kind of spoiling me…
Introducing Smokey the Bear’s successor: Grizzly-Nado! The year 2020 was such a steaming garbage fire that it’s easy to forget that it also featured real fires…lots of them. The National Shooting Sports Foundation is reaching out to America’s hunters and recreational shooters to remind us all that we have the power to help prevent last…
Summer is coming, and with it come the boating accidents! Here’s how to avoid ’em. The COVID-19 pandemic–and all the “social distancing” requirements that come with it–are on their way to the ash-heap of history. We all learned something over the last 13 months, though, and that is that the outdoors is the healthiest place…
