Recent Outdoors Articles

The Day That Belongs to Every American With a Rod, a Rifle, or a Kid Who Needs Both Every fourth Saturday of September, something happens across the United States that most people living in cities barely notice and those living outside of them feel in their bones. National Hunting and Fishing Day

Best U.S. Rivers for Fly Fishing Image credit: Gentleman's Pursuits/Canva Fly fishing is amazing for anyone who loves nature and a good challenge. T

Washington Puts Hunters and Shooters at the Table: Inside the New Federal Advisory Council That Could Shape America's Outdoor Future For the millions of American men who spend their weekends chasing elk through alpine timber, patterning turkeys in the pre-dawn dark, or running steel targets at the

NOAA Opens the 2026 South Atlantic Red Snapper Season — Three Days, New State Permits, and a Shot at December For the millions of American anglers who chase red snapper along the Southeast coast, every announcement from NOAA Fisheries carries the weight of a verdict. The season is short, the fish

The Trail Ahead: How Trump's Push to Rewrite the Forest Service Travel Management Rule Could Reshape Outdoor Access in America For decades, the question of who truly owns the American wilderness has simmered beneath the surface of every camping trip, trail ride, and backcountry adventure. Now, the

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

Trump Signs Two Major Executive Orders Expanding Hunting and Fishing Access — and Thanks the NRA by Name On the evening of September 17, 2026, President Donald Trump turned the White House Rose Garden into something that looked a lot more like a hunting camp than a formal state function. More than

What Is Walk-In Hunting Access and How Do You Find It? Let me paint you a picture. You're two hours into a drive, pulling off a gravel county road in Kansas, and you're looking out at a section of CRP grass that stretches so far you can't see the end of it. Nobody else is parked there. Nobody else

On the evening of September 17, 2026, the White House Rose Garden filled with a crowd that doesn't usually make the Washington power circuit: duck hunters and deer scouts, saltwater charter captains and big game outfitters, archery instructors and conservation executives. President Donald Trump hos

Trump's "Reinvigorating America's Hunting Heritage" Order Is the Most Sweeping Pro-Hunter Move in Years On a warm September evening in Washington, the White House Rose Garden looked more like a field camp gathering than a formal government ceremony. President Trump hosted more than 100 hunters, an