Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

Stranded, Scammed, and Out Thousands: The Dark Side of Alaska's Guided Hunt Industry For the kind of hunter who lies awake running the math — tallying up paid time off, flight costs, gear expenses, and outfitter fees — an Alaska moose hunt occupies a particular corner of the imagination. It is the

Vermont Supreme Court Backs the Hunt: State's Coyote and Trapping Rules Survive Legal Challenge A years-long legal battle over Vermont's hunting and trapping regulations reached its conclusion this month when the Vermont Supreme Court sided with the state's Fish and Wildlife Department, allowing t

Pennsylvania Wants Its Hunters Back: Senate Bill 1313 and the Fight to Reclaim a Fading Tradition There is a particular kind of homesickness that doesn't announce itself until late October, when the maples go orange and the air turns sharp and someone back in Centre County texts you a photo of the

Louisiana's New Privacy Laws Are Changing Hunting License Applications Forever — What Every Hunter Needs to Know Before August 1 More than 442,000 hunters across Louisiana are about to see how they apply for licenses and special permits fundamentally change. A pair of bills signed into law by Gove

The Biggest Expansion of Hunting Access on Federal Land in American History Is Now on the Table For decades, hunters and anglers operating on federal public lands have navigated a minefield of overlapping restrictions, contradictory rules, and regulations that varied not just from state to state b

New York's Deer Problem Just Got a New Solution — And Hunters Are the Key For years, anyone who has driven the backroads of the Hudson Valley at dusk, or cut through the farm country stretching between Rochester and Buffalo, has noticed it: more deer, more often, seemingly everywhere. That observa

America's Waters, America's Fight: Inside Trump's All-Out Push to Reopen the Ocean to Commercial Fishing The scene inside the Oval Office on a crisp April morning in 2025 was equal parts ceremony and declaration of war — a war, at least, on decades of marine conservation policy. President Donald T

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