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Attendees of the 88th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, which wrapped up last week in St. Louis, got the first look at the results of the Hunting License Sales 2021 – 2022 report that documented a 3.1% decline in hunting license sales in 2022. “We continued to track hunting license sales as one indicator…
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…
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…
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…
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest column comes to us courtesy of Paul Erhardt, Managing Editor, the Outdoor Wire Digital Network. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NRA’s Renewed Focus on Hunting Jun 25, 2024 In the wake of months and month of turmoil surrounding the cabal of insider dealings at the National Rifle Association, nobody could really fault you for losing…
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…
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…
Delta Waterfowl forecasts that poor breeding conditions in the prairie pothole region will result in a smaller fall flight than waterfowl hunters have experienced for many seasons. The Duck Hunters Organization expects that while blue-winged teal, green-winged teal and gadwalls had average to below-average production, other key species fared worse, including mallards and, even more…
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…
