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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

NOAA Raises Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Bag Limits for 2026: What Every Offshore Angler Needs to Know After a bruising 2025 season that left entire charter fleets scrambling and coastal tackle shops hemorrhaging revenue, recreational bluefin tuna fishermen along the Atlantic seaboard finally have someth

These 10 States Are the Best Places to Fish in 2026 Image credit: OpenAI Fishing in America is as much about the experience as it is about the catch

The Biggest Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Access in Federal History Is Underway There are moments in American conservation history that amount to genuine turning points — moments when the bureaucratic machinery of Washington actually shifts in a direction that puts more land beneath more boots.

The 7 Best Waters to Catch a Trophy Muskie Image credit: OpenAI The muskellunge — or muskie — has earned its reputation as the fish of ten thousand