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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 →Groundhog, schmoundhog: Spring is here when the coyotes are. It isn’t spring in most of the country, but if you’d like to know what’s on tap for this April or May, just look to our southernmost state: Florida. The songdogs are coming out as the state warms, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission…
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has named Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, as Grassroots Activist of the Year for 2020. The veteran Big Sky Country gun rights advocate spearheaded this year’s successful passage of LR 130, a measure that strengthened Montana’s state firearms preemption law….
Turns out that scientifically managing wildlife together with sportsmen works–who knew? (You did.) Last Thursday, Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Aurelia Skipwith announced that the American gray wolf no longer qualifies as an endangered species…and although it’s great news, it’s not surprising. Scientifically managing wildlife…
One of the biggest conservation controversies is heating up in Colorado… As we mentioned just a couple of weeks ago, the re-introduction of wolves into areas where they were previously extirpated is a huge controversy among conservationists. Today, the focus has shifted from the Hoodoo Pack of Arizona to Colorado, where the Rocky Mountain Elk…
One of the greatest controversies among sportsmen and conservationists is the role of the wolf in our ecosystems. That controversy may just be heating up in Arizona soon: Today, we’ve learned that the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) wolf biologists have captured, collared, and released three cross-fostered wolf pups as part of their ongoing…
What do hunters hate more than heavy rain and high winds? Poachers, that’s what, and this year Operation Game Thief (OGC) aims to put an end to poaching…but they need your help to be their eyes and ears on the ground. Although today’s report comes to us from Arizona, Operation Game Thief is an initiative…
What happens when trade unions and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) come together for conservation? From past joint operations, it seems what we get is lots of hard work from people who know the meaning of hard work, and lots of science-driven biome best practices from the people who know the meaning of…
Every year, the outdoor writers of the world receive desperate pleas from the various fish and wildlife departments around the country to please tell our readers to leave young wildlife alone. This year, the pleas have been particularly urgent–most likely because social-distancing mandates related to COVID-19 have caused millions of Americans to seek exercise and…
Of 439 million acres managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, 99 percent are open to hunting and fishing. In addition, the National Wildlife Refuge System supports approximately 2.7 million hunting days and nearly 8 million fishing days each year. These wild spaces belong to all of us as Americans to…
Nobody knows better than sportsmen just how much havoc an invasive species can wreak on an ecosystem, and some recent news from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) may have the shiver that has invaded my spine invading yours, too. There’s a new threat to the Great Lakes that, should it ever eventuate, is…
Historic effort allows salmon passage for the first time in nearly 90 years ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Today The Conservation Fund announced the completion of the four-year, $7.5 million effort to remove the Lower Eklutna River dam in Southcentral Alaska. For the first time in 89 years, the five species of Pacific salmon that live in the Eklutna…
