Recent Outdoors Articles

Oregon's PEACE Act: The Ballot Initiative That Would Criminalize Hunting, Fishing, and the American Outdoor Way of Life It started as a fringe idea championed by a small circle of Portland-based animal rights activists. Now it's a genuine political flashpoint with national implications. A petition

Polaris and the Foundation for America's Public Lands Just Committed $700,000 to Save the Trails You Ride There is a quiet crisis unfolding across the American West that doesn't make headlines the way wildfires or drought do, but its consequences are felt every time a rider pulls into a rutted-out

The Off-Roading Executive Order Is a Land Sell-Off in Disguise Late on a Friday evening — the preferred dumping ground for political moves nobody wants scrutinized — the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting to expand access to federal public lands for off-road vehicle users. The

Summer's Most Dangerous Ritual: What Every ATV and UTV Rider Needs to Know Before Hitting the Road Every Memorial Day weekend, millions of Americans roll their ATVs and UTVs out of garages, barns, and storage units and point them toward the nearest trail, dirt road, or — increasingly — public stre

The Return of the Trophy: How Trump's Second Term Is Reshaping America's Role in Elephant Hunting For decades, the question of whether an American sportsman should be permitted to fly to southern Africa, kill one of the world's most intelligent animals, and ship its head home as a decoration has s

The National Parks That Are Worth Skipping and What to Do Instead Image credit: Flux.1 America's national parks represent some of the most breathtak

The New Rules of the Hunt: What Every American Big-Game Hunter Must Know Before the 2026–2027 Season There was a time when returning from a successful African safari meant little more than coordinating with a taxidermist, packing your gear, and booking the flight home. Those days are gone. Interna

The 10 Most Instagrammable Fishing Lakes in North America Image credit: OpenAI North America is home to some of the most breathtaking freshwater sce

Wisconsin's Sharp-Tailed Grouse Is Disappearing — And This Fall, Hunters Will Have to Stay Home Again There is a bird in the sandy, fire-sculpted barrens of northwestern Wisconsin that most Americans have never seen and that a growing number of wildlife professionals fear could vanish from the sta

Open Season: How the Trump Administration Is Reshaping Hunting on America's Public Lands For anyone who has spent a dawn in a duck blind, stalked elk through mountain brush, or simply kept a hunting license tucked in a wallet as a matter of personal identity, the news coming out of Washington this