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Gary Metivier That’s Wild is a strong watch for anyone who enjoys wildlife stories, animal rescues, and nature videos that teach as they entertain. A great place to start is the featured bald eagle rescue episode, which gives viewers a closer look at how rescue and rehabilitation can help one of America’s most iconic birds....
Read More →There’s evil, there’s stupid and evil, and then there are these guys. Some poachers are smart enough to steal and waste wildlife at times and places where their crimes won’t be seen. Luckily for us and for the wildlife, for most people, the decision to poach automatically results in a loss of 20 IQ points….
Well, well, well … what do you know? Sportsmen’s votes and voices count again! Isn’t it strange how, all of a sudden, the voices of reason and freedom are being respected again? The latest example: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service have reversed their proposed closure of 100% of the Bears…
Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences … a bipartisan idea whose time has come. Not everything has to be a question of Political Left vs. Political Right. Some laws just make sense to just about everyone, and the EXPLORE Act seems to be one of them. The majesty of the outdoors and the beauty of…
Did you know that, in 2007, bald eagles were removed from the “endangered species” list? All over the nation, America’s national symbol is recovering from near-extinction. Although they’re still protected, Americans who grew up only seeing eagles in photos are now finding eagle nests in their back yards. The grand raptors have returned to the…
Wolves have a place in our ecosystem. Just not the ballroom, the ballet recital, or the back yard. Well, now we know the face of “the beast” that “steely knives” can’t kill … and it’s not a wolf’s. It’s the beast that’s born when we start prioritizing feelings over facts. The feelings in this case…
Very few things make me angrier than poaching. One of them is poaching endangered species. Many hunters (including myself) are willing to give a bit of grace to “mistaken identity” poaching, when the hunter had no intentions of poaching but misidentified their game–say, mistaking a hen turkey (not legal) for a jake (legal). Many of…
It’s Volunteer Week, and RMEF’s volunteers do much more than picking up trash … Volunteering doesn’t have to make you feel like someone working off a “community service” sentence. Volunteering for conservation could mean doing field work if that’s your jam, or it could mean fundraising to help protect a cause you believe in. The…
Have you noticed that some state fish and game agencies have started treating hunters like antagonists, not partners? At first it’s a little hard to understand why state regulatory bodies have done such a sudden about-face; after all, hunters’ tax dollars help fund those agencies’ missions. What’s more, hunting has always been a critical part…
Turns out that poachers are good for something after all, and Arkansas knows what it is! The Arkansas Economic Development Commission Division of Rural Services awarded grants worth $537,209 this week to schools throughout the state thanks to wildlife fines collected by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The AGFC does not use any of the money…
Quail hunting is nothing like it once was. When fence rows from small farms and family gardens crisscrossed Alabama and the Southeast, the bobwhite flourished. Since large-scale farming operations became the norm and many families moved to urban and suburban areas, the quail habitat has significantly diminished and so has the number of wild bobwhites….
Delta Waterfowl’s Hen House program began 33 years ago, on the Canadian prairie, when the conservation picture looked very different. That initial experiment turned into a theory, and then turned into scientifically supported best practice: The key to making more ducks is giving them a better place to nest. Could it really be as…
Who says you can’t teach an old duck new tricks? Ninety years ago, the first Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (Duck Stamp) was sold. Since then, the Duck Stamp program has protected nearly 6 million acres of habitat through expenditures of more than $900 million. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Migratory…
