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Is there anything more satisfying than watching poachers get theirs? As ethical hunters, we all hate the following things: sudden rainstorms when we’re tracking a blood trail, Chronic Wasting Disease, and poachers. The first two are acts of God or Nature, and thus beyond our control, but the third is definitely a problem we can…
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…
My bow-season prayers to St. The Nuge have been answered! Just a few weeks ago we launched a tongue-in-cheek “prayer to St. Nugent” for bow-season success. Just a few days before that, we yearned for the success of a pro-hunting movie in production called The Harvest. It seems that someone was listening, because the Motor…
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…
Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness is the crown jewel of America’s National Wilderness System, boasting over a million acres of pristine wilderness, and when the Forest Service says “no motorized vehicles,” they really mean it. But no wilderness that size can be effectively policed, so the Bob Marshall Wilderness’ essential wildness relies on ordinary citizens to…
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…
Have the events of 2020 made you start dreaming of going off-grid? If you’ve ever daydreamed about buying a few acres of American soil and setting yourself up in a self-sustaining homestead, no doubt the year 2020–complete with the COVID-19 pandemic, food shortages, and riots before the quarantines were completely lifted countrywide–has caused the intensity…
A few days ago, the world received the kind of shocking news we love to hear: Two fishermen, presumed lost at sea after having disappeared two weeks prior, were rescued by a Good Samaritan and the Coast Guard. Found 23 miles northeast of Cat Island in the Bahamas (and, interestingly, within the hypotenuse of the…
“He was catching the animals because he could and he ‘likes to do it’.” Is there any better way to start your Saturday than with a nice, hot cup of schadenfreude? The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) recently busted 56-year-old Pickford resident Kurt Johnston Duncan for (allegedly) illegally harvesting three bald eagles and 18…
The Coronavirus pandemic may still be ongoing, but as state stay-at-home orders lift one by one, more and more people are heading outside to enjoy what’s turning into a beautiful May all across the country. Experienced outdoorsmen know that camping, hiking, backpacking and hunting are the original “social distancing” measures; after all, it’s a lot…
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s David L. Bernhardt has a message for America’s outdoorsmen. As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads like my ex-wife’s behind and Americans everywhere begin to chafe at the restrictions of quarantine, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s David L. Bernhardt recently released a letter containing a message for America’s outdoorsmen: America’s…
You don’t need a survival kit—you need three. The discussion of how to build the perfect bug-out bag, survival kit, or everyday carry (EDC) package continues countrywide and isn’t going away anytime soon, but there’s something essential that many people miss: You don’t actually need a survival kit. You need three survival kits. In short, you need…
