Recent Wildlife Articles

Tearing Up the Wild: How Off-Road Recreation Is Quietly Destroying the Landscapes Riders Love There is something undeniably seductive about firing up an ATV at the edge of a trailhead, feeling the machine vibrate beneath you as the forest or desert or mountain scrub opens up ahead. Off-road riding

Michigan's Wolf Debate Is Back — And This Time, It Has Teeth The gray wolf has always occupied an outsized place in the American psyche — feared, revered, hunted to near-extinction, and slowly coaxed back from the edge. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, that arc is playing out again in real time, thi

Bass Fishing Hall of Fame's Class of 2026: Five New Legends Enshrined, Bill Dance Earns Lifetime Achievement Honor Springfield, Missouri has a way of making bass fishing feel like the biggest sport in America — and for one Thursday evening each September inside the White River Conference Center at

Nearly 1,000 Acres of Great Salt Lake Wetlands Are on the Block — And Not Everyone Likes What Comes Next Thirty years ago, Salt Lake City's airport struck a deal with the land. Bulldozers and graders were reshaping the tarmac, carving out a new runway that would inevitably displace swaths of wetla

Alaska's Wolves Have Gone Oceanic — and the Consequences Could Reshape Two Worlds at Once The Alaska wilderness has always had a way of humbling the assumptions of scientists. But even by that standard, what researchers have documented on the remote islands of southeastern Alaska over the past dec

Yellowstone's Last Original Wolf Pack Survives Wyoming's 2026 Hunt Season — But the Fight Over America's Wolves Is Far From Over It lasted five days. That's all the time it took for hunters in northwest Wyoming to fill a four-wolf quota in the Shoshone National Forest hunt areas this September, cl

The 10 Most Venomous Spiders in North America Image credit: Flux.1 North America is home to thousands of spider species, but only a small fraction p

Trump's Wolf Order: A Fight Over the Range, the Law, and the American West On a Friday morning in early September 2026, President Donald Trump stood in the Oval Office flanked by cattle ranchers and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and put his signature on an executive order that reignited one

10 Deer Myths Hunters Believe About Spooking Them Image credit: Flux.1 Deer hunting is as much a discipline of observation and patience as it is of

Vermont's Bear Problem Is Now Too Big to Ignore — And the State Is Finally Doing Something About It Vermont has a bear problem. Not the kind you read about in the abstract — the kind where a black bear breaks into a home in Jamaica, Vermont while the owners are away, ransacks the kitchen, empties