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The 7 Biggest Mistakes Many Elk Hunters Make Every Year Image credit: Flux.1 Elk hunting is one of the most physically demanding and strategically c

The Most Consequential Gun Case in Years: Supreme Court Takes Up Semiautomatic Rifle Bans For hunters who run AR-platform rifles through brushy creek bottoms after hogs, for competitive shooters dialing in their 3-Gun setups, and for the millions of ordinary Americans who keep a semiautomatic rifl

Pennsylvania's 2026-27 Hunting Season Is Here: Everything You Need to Know Before Buying Your License The calendar is turning, and for Pennsylvania's hundreds of thousands of hunters, that means one thing: it's time to lock down your license before the competition does. The Pennsylvania Game Commi

Massachusetts' Centuries-Old Hunting Laws Are Finally on the Chopping Block — But the Fight Is Far From Over For generations, Massachusetts hunters have faced a restriction that no serious outdoorsman in 48 other states has had to live with: a complete, blanket ban on hunting any day of the week t

Is Northern Pike the Best Fish You've Never Eaten? Ask most guys what fish they want on their plate after a long day on the water, and you'll hear the same answer every single time: walleye. Maybe trout. Maybe bass if they're feeling adventurous. Northern pike? Nine times out of ten, it goes right

For the better part of three years, conservation groups across America have been watching the Farm Bill situation with the kind of grinding anxiety usually reserved for a long drought season. The landmark legislation that governs nearly every dimension of American agriculture — from crop insurance

The Flesh-Eating Fly Heading North: Why Wyoming's Hunting Community Is Watching Texas With Dread For most hunters who have spent years saving preference points, logging backcountry miles, and booking expensive guided trips into Wyoming's high country, the threat of a parasitic fly that eats animal

Oregon's Most Radical Ballot Measure in Decades Has Every Politician in the State Running for Cover It doesn't happen often in American politics — a single ballot measure that drives a progressive Democratic governor and her Republican opponents into the same rhetorical foxhole. But that's exactly

Hawaii's Aquarium Fishing Wars: A Decade-Long Battle Over Yellow Tangs, Reef Rights, and a Potential Comeback For saltwater aquarium hobbyists across America, few fish carry the same emotional pull as the yellow tang — a vivid, chrome-yellow surgeonfish that has long been the crown jewel of the ho

Trump Signs Proclamation Opening Nearly Half a Million Square Miles of Pacific Ocean to Commercial Fishing President Donald Trump signed an executive proclamation on June 11, 2026, delivering what his administration is calling the most sweeping expansion of American commercial fishing rights in th