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The numbers coming out of the American West this spring are hard to ignore. Snowpack levels have cratered to historic lows, drought is spreading across the region, and the people who study fish and wildlife for a living are using words like "historic" and "abysmal" to describe what they're seeing.

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There's a moment every hiker dreads — that feeling of being watched from the rocks above. In mountain lion country, that instinct isn't paranoia. It's biology. And across the American West, wildlife managers are working around the clock to make sure those encounters stay rare, and when they happen,

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The Worst Snowpack on Record Is Reshaping Everything Anglers Know About Colorado Trout Season There's a moment every spring when the rivers in Colorado start to wake up. The ice pulls back from the banks, the bugs begin to hatch, and the trout that spent the winter sluggish in deep pools start mov

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is heading into 2027 with significantly fewer resources — and that means fewer fish in the water, fewer pheasants in the fields, and less money for the habitat work that keeps hunting and fishing worth doing in the first place. The agency is dealing

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission made it official on April 17, voting to adopt sweeping changes to the state's 2026 deer, antelope, and elk hunting seasons during a meeting held at Chadron State Park. The decisions affect permit numbers, season structures, unit boundaries, and more — and hunt

For a while there, it looked like a quiet piece of legislation buried inside a massive farm bill was going to upend the way millions of Americans hunt with dogs. Then people started paying attention — and things changed fast. A provision inside H.R. 5017, widely known as the Greyhound Protectio