Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

The Biggest Hunting Expansion in Refuge History Is Also Its Most Controversial On paper, the numbers are staggering. The proposal would make more than 92 million acres, or over 95% of National Wildlife Refuge System lands, available for hunting — a milestone the administration is framing as the mo

Is Michigan the Best Fishing State in America?Is Michigan the Best Fishing State in America? Let me tell you something that happened a few years back. I was standing knee-deep in a cold, fast-moving river somewhere in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, watching a brook trout hold steady in the current ab

12 Top Spots to Catch Salmon Across the US Image credit: Flux.1 Few pursuits test a angler's patience, skill, and reading of the natural world quite

Who's Really Killing Deer Management? Let's be straight with each other for a minute. Every fall, millions of American hunters pull on their boots, grab their gear, and head into the woods with the best intentions — take more deer, help manage the herd, maybe donate some meat to people who need it

For the first time in a quarter century, the Pennsylvania Game Commission may soon have the authority to manage its own financial house. Two pieces of legislation that recently cleared a key committee hurdle are poised to fundamentally reshape how hunting licenses are priced and who can access the

Summer Pike: Why You're Fishing Them All Wrong Here's a scene that plays out on lakes all across America every summer without fail. The 4th of July rolls around, the water temps climb, and guys who were absolutely hammering pike back in May suddenly pack it in. They figure the fish have shut down.

North Carolina Moves to Restrict Firearms and Hound Hunting on a Section of Butner-Falls of Neuse Game Land A proposed rule change quietly working its way through the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) is stirring up the kind of debate that hunting communities across the South kn

The Open Gate: How Walk-In Hunting Programs Are Reshaping Access to America's Private Lands The "No Trespassing" sign is one of the most demoralizing sights in the American hunting tradition. Roughly 60 percent of the land in the contiguous United States is privately owned, and for generations, th

Oklahoma Just Rewrote the Rulebook for Out-of-State Deer Hunters If you're one of the thousands of out-of-state hunters who books a last-minute trip to Oklahoma every fall, packs your truck the night before opener, and expects to walk into any sporting goods store or pull up a website to grab your

America's Fishing Fleet Is Getting Back to Work — And Washington Is Finally Helping For decades, commercial fishermen from the trawler captains of New Bedford to the salmon seiners of Kodiak have nursed the same grievance: the fish are there, the boats are ready, and yet the federal regulatory mac