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Morel mushrooms peak across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic from late April through May. Where to look, how to ID true morels vs the look-alikes that will hurt you, harvest etiquette, and where foraging is legal in 2026.
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Thank you for being proud, ethical sportsmen (and the best readers ever)! This year, we’re raising a Thanksgiving toast to you, the American outdoorsmen and women who maintain our proud traditions, with our best giveaway yet: The Giving Thanks IV $7.5K Guns & Gear Giveaway! It’s a cornucopia of everything you want and need to…
Release the hounds, Smithers… The use of tracking dogs to recover a game animal is as old as the partnership between Man and Dog itself. However, the line between using a scent hound to find a dead animal and using a scent hound to pursue a live one is exquisitely fine. Most people agree that…
America’s public-land hunters have an angel who has requested privacy, and we thank him or her. Here at Popular Outdoorsman, we often spend time sadly discussing the people who abuse our public lands and the animals that make their home there. So it’s a lovely day when we can happily discuss the people who cherish…
Back in 1937, in the heart of the Depression and the Dust Bowl, America looked around itself and realized that our wild spaces were in serious trouble. Nobody had much money back then, but everyone agreed that we needed to do a better job of conserving America’s natural resources. The Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund, which…
Four “kids,” two states, at least 20 deer. Nobody likes poachers less than we lawful hunters, although most of us have forgiveness in our hearts for those ignorant of the law or in dire straits. However, sometimes poaching represents something much darker and antisocial, and that seems to be the case in today’s shocking news…
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…
North Dakota’s current drought may portend a slow duck season this fall…but there’s no reason to panic. Newly released numbers from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s (NDGFD) 74th annual breeding duck survey indicate a below average breeding season for waterfowl. The main cause of the decline is lack of water – the 2021…
Back in the eighth grade, Christian Liden hadn’t so much as met his future bride, but he had a plan: He would design and mine the engagement ring he’d put on her hand. How does an outdoorsman go about that? Well, Liden started by panning for gold around his home state, Washington. But when it…
No, this isn’t Red Dawn 2021 (although you can hold an AK-47 over your head if you want to). Today, we have some interesting news courtesy of the Deserets at the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and it’s interesting on two different fronts. First, there has been a spotting of what biologists are confident is in…
Biden Administration seeks to conserve 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030 The Mule Deer Foundation sees lots to like about the Biden Administration’s newly released Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful initiative. The plan, released a few days ago, includes plans that support big game migration corridors and winter range conservation efforts that…
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…
If we’re going to spend a fortune, let’s spend it on a real public benefit. The Boone and Crockett Club (B&C) has taken note of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan, and they have an important message for Congress: Federal lands count as infrastructure, too. What’s more, those lands need some urgent TLC to protect them…
