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September is the quiet stretch between summer heat and leaf season: warm days, cold nights, empty trails and parks that clear out after Labor Day. I feel like a lot of people treat September like the leftover month. Summer’s over, fall hasn’t really started, so they just wait. That’s a mistake. This is the stretch...
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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…
Courtesy Starwood Capital Group There’s no word as to whether the new owners will continue print, digital or social media for Field & Stream Magazine. Recently, the Field & Stream brand was recently sold to a company called Starwood Capital Group, a private investment firm. There are many questions related to the Field & Stream…
Feral hogs are a terrible strain on our ecosystem. It really doesn’t matter where in America you live; there’s really no part of our country that can sustain our current population of wild pigs. They’re an incredibly destructive species, and an invasive one … meaning that our ecosystem did not evolve along with the pigs….
America’s native flora and fauna are fighting a war … against invasive species. Most people focus on invasive animals, but invasive plants in pastures, hay fields and crop fields are a growing concern. The COVID slow down created inaction in controlling invasives. Now the very high cost of chemicals has allowed the invasives to expand…
The Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation (QUWF), is the only Veteran founded and managed national conservation organization in the U.S. One of the private landowner co-ops formed by QUWF is the Niangua River Basin Wildlife Coop in partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and we have a suggestion for making use of the…
Pope and Young, America’s leading bowhunting conservation organization, is excited to announce a new world record Woodland Caribou in the velvet category. Pope and Young announced thirteen new world records at their 33rd Biennial Convention in April of this year, with this incredible bull being one. Daniel Welker’s bull set the world record with a…
The thunder has been a bit quieter of late … For the last couple of years, America’s wild turkey, once the star success story of conservationism, has been on the decline. The simple question is “Why?” Unfortunately, there’s no simple answer. There are six subspecies of turkeys, each with its own habitat and set of…
Wildfire awareness needs a new mascot. The mascots of our youth, once towering above our innocent little heads, have been cut down to size. Smokey the Bear has been missing since he disappeared into the wilderness to write his manifesto. As for Woodsy the Owl, let’s just say that he’s gotten in touch with his…
As part of a nationwide commitment to conservation, 12 Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) facilities have teamed up this year to rescue and rehabilitate 518 cold-stunned sea turtles off the coast of New England. Participating in this global effort are some of the nation’s top wildlife conservation and education destinations, including the world-renowned and…
Here we go again: Technological progress and environmentalism unfortunately at odds. Following a massive rocket explosion in South Texas, a combination of five national and local environmental groups and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, Inc. sued the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for failing to create an effective plan to protect the area surrounding the SpaceX…
Wolves are no longer endangered, so why are they still protected? Nathan M. Roberts, PHD, considered an expert on the scientific research and data on furbearers and carnivores, testified on his own behalf, not representing any organization or entity but science, before Congress to the Members of the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries regarding…
The Department of the Interior has announced it will invest $23 million in landscape-scale conservation and restoration in the Prairie Pothole Region states of Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. This major commitment to wetlands that support more than half of North America’s waterfowl is one piece of the department’s plan for $120 million in…
