Recent Outdoors Articles

For the first time in a quarter century, the Pennsylvania Game Commission may soon have the authority to manage its own financial house. Two pieces of legislation that recently cleared a key committee hurdle are poised to fundamentally reshape how hunting licenses are priced and who can access the

Summer Pike: Why You're Fishing Them All Wrong Here's a scene that plays out on lakes all across America every summer without fail. The 4th of July rolls around, the water temps climb, and guys who were absolutely hammering pike back in May suddenly pack it in. They figure the fish have shut down.

North Carolina Moves to Restrict Firearms and Hound Hunting on a Section of Butner-Falls of Neuse Game Land A proposed rule change quietly working its way through the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) is stirring up the kind of debate that hunting communities across the South kn

The Open Gate: How Walk-In Hunting Programs Are Reshaping Access to America's Private Lands The "No Trespassing" sign is one of the most demoralizing sights in the American hunting tradition. Roughly 60 percent of the land in the contiguous United States is privately owned, and for generations, th

6 Things That Attract Predators to Your Camp That You'd Never Guess Image credit: Flux.1 Spending time in the backcountry is one of the most rewardi

Oklahoma Just Rewrote the Rulebook for Out-of-State Deer Hunters If you're one of the thousands of out-of-state hunters who books a last-minute trip to Oklahoma every fall, packs your truck the night before opener, and expects to walk into any sporting goods store or pull up a website to grab your

America's Fishing Fleet Is Getting Back to Work — And Washington Is Finally Helping For decades, commercial fishermen from the trawler captains of New Bedford to the salmon seiners of Kodiak have nursed the same grievance: the fish are there, the boats are ready, and yet the federal regulatory mac

Trump's America First Fishing Blitz: What the Policy Actually Does, Who Benefits, and What's at Stake From the Oval Office to the open Pacific, President Donald Trump has spent the better part of fourteen months methodically dismantling some of the most significant marine conservation boundaries i

9 Rookie Gun Mistakes Hunters Make in the Wild Image credit: Flux.1 Heading into the field with a firearm is one of the most rewarding experiences a

8 Things That Separate Experienced Campers From Everyone Else Image credit: Flux.1 There's a certain ease that comes with time spent in the backcoun