Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

Montana Sets 300-Wolf Harvest Limit for 2026-27 Season — And Nobody Is Fully Happy About It Wolf management in Montana has never been a simple equation. It sits at the collision of state law, federal oversight, ranching economies, Indigenous treaty rights, hunting tradition, and scientific models

At the Gates: Why Silver Carp Is the Most Feared Invader the Great Lakes Has Never Seen The Great Lakes hold roughly 21 percent of the world's surface freshwater — five interconnected inland seas stretching nearly 750 miles from Duluth, Minnesota, to the St. Lawrence River. They anchor a commercia

Kentucky's Fall 2026 Hunting Season: Everything You Need to Know Before You Head Afield There is a particular kind of anticipation that builds in late August in Kentucky — the kind that has nothing to do with college football and everything to do with what waits in the fields and timber. The air i

Yellowstone Declares War on Rainbow Trout: What the Buffalo Creek Closure Means for the West's Most Important Fishery Late August in the Lamar Valley is about as close to wilderness perfection as the American West still offers — wolf packs moving through sage flats at dawn, bison standing knee-dee

Michigan Drops the "Rifle Line": What the September 12 Rule Change Means for Over 600,000 Hunters Few regulations in American deer hunting have carried as much geographic weight as Michigan's so-called "rifle line." For decades, that invisible boundary — running roughly from Muskegon on the west t

Oregon's Push to Lock Down Hunting and Fishing Rights in the State Constitution In a state better known for its Portland craft breweries and progressive ballot initiatives, a quieter but consequential fight is now unfolding in Salem and across Oregon's rural counties — one that could permanently r

Squirrel Hunting Tricks Your Grandpa Knew There's a good chance the first animal you ever hunted wasn't a trophy whitetail or a bugling bull elk. For a whole lot of us, it was a gray squirrel — spotted from the edge of a hardwood thicket on a cool October morning, the kind of morning where the fro

Utah's 2026 Hunting Season Just Got a Lot More Complicated — And the Reasons Why Should Concern Every Hunter in the West The Utah Wildlife Board convened on August 20, 2026, for what many expected to be a routine public meeting. What emerged was a cascade of emergency decisions driven by two separ

Colorado's November Showdown: Voters Will Decide Whether Hunting and Fishing Belong in the State Constitution Come November 3, 2026, Colorado voters will face a question that goes far beyond the trout streams and elk meadows of the Rocky Mountains. Colorado voters will decide whether to enshrine h

Three Million Gators and a Lottery: Louisiana Opens Its First Recreational Alligator Hunt in Over Half a Century For the first time in more than 50 years, Louisiana is allowing everyday hunters — not just commercial operators — to legally pursue the American alligator. This October, up to 5,000 lu