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A Line Drawn Through the North Woods: Maine's Moose Compromise Maine's wildlife managers have settled on a plan that tries to give hunters and leaf-peepers each a piece of the same landscape. The state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will seek to expand moose hunting in September near

Timing Is Everything on a Leaf-Peeping Hike Image credit: Flux.1 Fall color moves across the country like a slow wave, starting at high elevations a

Michigan's Pheasant Release Program Returns for Year Seven — Nearly 7,300 Birds Headed to Southern Game Areas There are seasons that feel like obligations and seasons that feel like birthdays. For a certain breed of Michigan hunter — the kind who grew up watching a rooster burst from a frost-bitte

Faulkner University's McCraney and McKee Go Wire-to-Wire at the 2026 AFTCO Collegiate Bass Open on Lake Dardanelle College fishing doesn't get bigger than this. On the morning of October 10, 2026, more than 300 two-man boats launched off Lake Dardanelle in Russellville, Arkansas, armed with rods,

When a Small Fish Pulls Like a Big One Image credit: Flux.1 Anglers argue endlessly about which fish fights hardest, and the debate usually comes do

Most Bowhunting Seasons Are Lost Before the Shot Image credit: Flux.1 Bowhunting is unforgiving. A rifle hunter has a cou

Texas White-Tailed Deer Season 2026-27: A 5.64 Million-Strong Herd, Quality Bucks, and Everything You Need to Know Deer season in Texas is never just a hunting trip. It is a ritual — part land stewardship, part patience, part obsession — and heading into the 2026-27 season, the numbers are stackin

Montana Orders Anglers to Kill Brown Trout in the Flathead — and It's Only the Start of a Much Bigger Fight On the morning of October 14, 2026, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission convened and did something that would have been almost unthinkable to most trout anglers even a decade ago: it or

Inside the Trump Administration's Move to Reopen Alaska's National Preserves to Bear Baiting A sprawling, decade-long regulatory war over one of hunting's most disputed practices just reached its latest flashpoint. The Trump administration has finalized a rule that overturns bans imposed by both t

Why Deer Always Know You're There Why Deer Always Know You're There You've been out there. You got up before the sun, layered up in the dark, hiked quietly to your stand, and sat there completely still for hours — barely breathing. You did everything right. And then, out of nowhere, that buck thr